Graduate Training in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

描述（由申请人提供）：此更新申请要求继续支持威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的分子和细胞药理学博士前培训（MCP）计划。几十年来，威斯康星大学的药理学研究生培训一直很强大，分布在许多部门和学院中。1994年，威斯康星大学的药理学培训教员在分子和细胞药理学项目的主持下联合起来。这创造了一个校园范围内的教师核心，他们在科学上高度互动，并对培养现代药理学家有共同的兴趣。分子和细胞药理学课程得到了整个校园的大力支持。这一举措振兴了全校范围内的药理学课程和系列研讨会，并引发了无数的跨部门研究和培训活动，丰富了现代药理学培训的环境。这些变化对对分子和细胞药理学感兴趣的学生非常有吸引力，这导致了研究生项目招募和培训了一批杰出的年轻科学家。为了充分利用这种优越的培训环境，本提案要求继续为培养博士预科生提供资金，从第10年开始增加到12名。该计划旨在为研究生提供现代药理学基础概念的跨学科和综合培训，重点是生物化学，分子和细胞方法，并明确应用于人类健康。教学课程为所有这些学科提供了坚实的基础，并建立在现代药理学严格深入研究训练的坚实基础之上。虽然培训强调的是研究生涯，但培训经验也旨在培养领导和教学能力。所有的导师都有同行评审，积极和积极的研究项目，在分子和细胞药理学的大多数领域提供培训机会。在NIH的持续支持下，MCP项目将继续加强其传统，为美国生物医学和药理学社区提供训练有素的研究科学家。这些科学家是药理学生物医学研究的未来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application requests continuing support for the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Predoctoral Training (MCP) Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Graduate training in pharmacology has been strong at Wisconsin for many decades and is distributed among a number of departments and colleges. In 1994, the Pharmacology training faculty at Wisconsin joined together under the auspices of the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Program. This has created a campus-wide nucleus of faculty who are highly interactive scientifically and share an interest in training modern pharmacologists. The Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Program has been strongly supported across campus. This initiative ahs revitalized the campus-wide Pharmacology curriculum, seminar series, and has sparked innumerable interdepartmental research and training activities that have enriched the environment for modern Pharmacology training. These changes have been very attractive to students with an interest in molecular and cellular pharmacology, and this has resulted in the recruiting and training of an outstanding cohort of young scientists to the Graduate Program. To fully take advantage of this superior training environment, this proposal is requesting continuing funds for the training of predoctoral students, starting with an increase of to 12 starting with year 10. The Program is designed to provide graduate students with interdisciplinary and integrated training in fundamental concepts in modern pharmacology with an emphasis on biochemical, molecular and cellular approaches with clear applications to human health. The didactic curriculum provides a solid base in all of these disciplines and is built on a strong foundation of rigorous in depth research training in modern pharmacology. Although the training emphasizes a research career, the training experience is designed to develop leadership and teaching abilities as well. All of the preceptors have peer-reviewed, active, and aggressive research programs that offer training opportunities in most areas of molecular and cellular pharmacology. With continued NIH support, the MCP Program will continue to enhance its tradition of providing the U.S. biomedical and pharmacological communities with expertly trained research scientists. These scientists are the future of biomedical research in Pharmacology.