Advanced Graduate Training Program in Neurobiology & Behavior

我们请求继续为从事翻译相关神经科学研究的高级(3-5年级)研究生提供培训资助。培训助学金将向注册神经生物学和行为课程的学生开放，就像过去一样，从现在开始也是哥伦比亚大学细胞、分子和生物医学研究综合课程的学生。请求为五名学生提供支持。启动和继续这一培训计划的动力是希望为我们的学生提供尽可能好的准备，以实现他们依靠科学培训实现富有成效的职业生涯。具体地说，我们打算加强统计和定量方法的培训，促进合作研究，并鼓励学生学习神经系统疾病之间的共性。特别是，我们将支持一批学生开展具有翻译意义和与神经疾病相关的跨学科研究。我们将进一步支持和支持由具有不同实验专长的共同导师指导的此类研究。此外，我们将通过“专业技能”继续课程和“神经学和精神疾病生物学”课程，为这些学生和其他学生提供实验室外培训。我们还将在项目中提供新的增值部分：生物统计学系副教授梁正贤博士将为学员及其导师提供一对一的统计咨询和建议，并将参加学员与PI的定期会议。另一个新的组成部分是每年一次的量化方法研讨会，以及对学员参加NINDS T32计划年度研讨会的要求。这些培训机会旨在利用这些机会，使我们支持的受训人员以及哥伦比亚大学其他神经科学专业的学生受益。该计划将由现任联席PI Ulrich Hengst指导，现任联席PI Lloyd Greene将在当前资金周期结束时卸任。该项目将有56名初级和高级导师，他们在与翻译神经科学相关的领域工作。监督将由神经生物学与行为和综合计划的主任、神经生物学和行为计划的顾问委员会以及该计划支持的当前和过去的学生的反馈提供。在该计划的头9年里，25名学生得到了25名不同教职员工的指导/共同指导。发表记录、论文完成率、保留率、获得外部支持的成功率、科学职业生涯的延续、合格和共同指导的申请者数量的增加，以及学生的反馈，都表明该项目正在实现其目标。这一点以及向综合方案学生开放的培训补助金支持了将受资助学生人数从目前的4人增加到5人的请求。

We request continued support for a training grant for advanced (3rd-5th year) graduate students engaged in translationally relevant neuroscience research. The training grant will be open to students enrolled in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program as it has been in the past and from now on also in the Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies at Columbia University. Support for five students is requested. The impetus for initiating and continuing this training program is the desire to provide the best possible preparation of our students to fulfill productive careers that draw on their scientific training. Specifically, we intend to enhance the training in statistical and quantitative methods, foster collaborative research, and encourage students to study commonalities between nervous system disorders. In particular, we will support a cadre of students carrying out cross-disciplinary research that has translational significance and relevance to neurological diseases. We will further favor and support such research that is directed by co-mentors with different experimental expertise. In addition, we will provide out-of-laboratory training of these and other students in the programs via a continuing course in ‘Professional Skills’ and a course in ‘Biology of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders’. We will also offer new value-added components in the program: Dr. Cheng-Shiun Leu, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, will provide one-on-one statistical counseling and advise for the trainees and their mentors, and he will participate in the regular meetings of the trainees with the PI. Another new component is a yearly quantitative approaches workshop and the requirement for trainees to participate in the Annual NINDS T32 Program workshop. These training opportunities are designed to be leveraged so that they benefit our supported trainees as well as other neuroscience-oriented students at Columbia. The program will be directed by the current co-PI Ulrich Hengst with the current co-PI Lloyd Greene stepping down at the end of the current funding cycle. The program will have 56 mentors at both junior and senior levels, who work in areas of relevance to translational neuroscience. Oversight will be provided by the directors of the Neurobiology and Behavior and the Integrated program, by the advisory committee of the Neurobiology and Behavior program, and by feedback from current and past students supported by the program. In the first 9 years of the program, 25 students have been supported with mentorship/co-mentorship by 25 different faculty. Publication records, thesis completion, retention rates, success in gaining outside support, continuation in science careers, increasing numbers of qualified and co-mentored applicants, and student feedback all indicate that the program is meeting its goals. This and the opening of the training grant to students from the Integrated program support the request to increase the number of supported students to five from the current number of four.