Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Northwestern University

西北大学分子生物物理学培训项目

基本信息

批准号：
10615114
负责人：
Heather Wendy Pinkett
金额：
$ 42.44万
依托单位：
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10615114
关键词：
Biophysics Molecular Training Programs Universities

项目摘要

Project Summary The core mission of the Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) at Northwestern University (NU) is to train the next generation of pre-doctoral students in the highly interdisciplinary field of molecular biophysics. This field seeks to describe and explain biological phenomena using fundamental physical, chemical, and mathematical principles and to leverage this knowledge to develop new medicinal therapies and engineer new biomedical tools and applications. As the sole training program at NU dedicated to this area, for 30 years MBTP has played a key role in strengthening intellectual ties and stimulating interdisciplinary collaborations among program preceptors, catalyzed by student trainees, spread over seven departments in the schools of arts & sciences, medicine, and engineering. Six pre-doctoral student trainees in their second and third years of graduate education from seven feeder graduate programs will be recruited to and supported by the training program for a maximum of two years, allowing the program to have the greatest impact early in their careers as trainees complete the required coursework, learn to think critically, frame research questions independently, acquire and hone the requisite technical skills to answer these questions, and develop operational skills to be effective communicators and researchers. Trainee learning will occur through the completion of a core biophysics curriculum established by the program that will allow students from diverse backgrounds to share a common didactic experience. Trainees will have numerous opportunities to develop and hone oral presentation skills at program-sponsored forums from intimate settings like journal clubs and research-in-progress meetings held every month to larger audiences at monthly intramural seminars and the annual symposium. Monthly seminars, annual symposia and career development forums featuring external speakers, who are also leaders in academia, industry, and other non-academic careers will not only provide trainees with opportunities for broadening and deepening knowledge in the field but also for networking and career advancement. MBTP is deeply committed towards the development of all students including those from underrepresented backgrounds for broad impact. The overarching goal of MBTP is to prepare pre-doctoral students of exceptional promise in the early stages of their scientific careers to conduct rigorous, reproducible, and responsible research in molecular biophysics by facilitating the development of both general competencies as well as the uniquely molecular biophysical skills of deep analytical and quantitative reasoning and expertise in the application of cutting-edge technologies to solve complex biological problems. By achieving our overarching goal, we will set students on a trajectory towards independence in thought and action with skills that are compatible with a spectrum of productive, intellectually-demanding careers in academia, industry, and beyond.

项目摘要西北大学（NU）的分子生物物理学培训计划（MBTP）的核心使命是在高度跨学科的分子生物物理学领域中训练下一代博士前学生。该领域旨在使用基本的物理，化学和数学原则并利用这些知识来开发新的药物疗法和工程师新生物医学工具和应用。作为NU致力于该领域的唯一培训计划，已有30年 MBTP在加强智力联系和刺激跨学科合作方面发挥了关键作用在学生学员催化的计划主持器中，分布在学校的七个部门艺术与科学，医学和工程。在七个喂食者的研究生教育的第二年和第三年中，六名博士前学生学员研究生课程将被培训计划招募和支持，最多两年当受训者完成所需课程工作，学会进行批判性思考，独立构架研究问题，获取并磨练必要回答这些问题并发展运营技能的技术技能，以成为有效的沟通者和研究人员。学员学习将通过完成由核心生物物理学课程完成该计划将允许来自不同背景的学生分享共同的教学经验。学员将有许多机会在计划赞助的情况下发展和磨练口头表现技巧来自日记俱乐部等亲密环境和每月进行研究的研究会议的论坛每月壁内研讨会和年度研讨会的观众。每月研讨会，年度研讨会以及以外部演讲者为特色的职业发展论坛，他们也是学术界，工业和其他非学术职业不仅会为受训者提供扩大和加深的机会该领域的知识，以及网络和职业发展。 MBTP深深地致力于所有学生的发展，包括来自代表性不足的背景的学生。 MBTP的总体目标是准备早期的专业学生他们的科学职业阶段进行分子进行严格，可重复和负责任的研究通过促进一般能力以及独特的分子的发展，生物物理学深层分析和定量推理的生物物理技能以及在尖端应用方面的专业知识解决复杂生物学问题的技术。通过实现我们的总体目标，我们将使学生继续前进朝着独立的思想和行动轨迹与与一系列谱系兼容的技能学术界，工业及其他地区的生产性，智力上的职业。