Training Grant in Sleep Research

描述(由申请人提供)： 本申请寻求对睡眠研究培训计划的支持，该计划为博士后学生和博士后研究员提供对睡眠研究未来至关重要的广泛科学学科的跨学科培训。培训将由西北大学和芝加哥大学的教师进行，他们在整合两所大学在睡眠研究、时间生物学和相关学科方面的研究和培训方面的优势方面有着既定的记录。九个初级培训学院的联合研究将使学员能够将遗传学、基因组学、内分泌学、药理学、神经生物学、认知神经科学、老年学和时间生物学领域的尖端方法和技术整合到他们的睡眠研究培训中。由于本培训计划中的讲师积极参与分子、细胞、系统和行为层面的研究，学员将接受丰富的 整合在一起的活动环境，用于研究睡眠在所有生物组织水平上的基本机制。这一培训计划的一个主要特点将是培训学生和研究员在现代基础研究和以患者为导向的研究中使用动物模型和人类进行睡眠研究。目前的培训方案已从最初的5名教官扩大到9名教官，提供了 在心血管生理学、呼吸生物学、新陈代谢和功能基因组学等更广泛的生物医学研究领域的尖端研究背景下，为学员提供真正的多学科睡眠研究培训。请求为4名博士后和5名博士后提供支持。只有完成了大部分课程作业并明确致力于睡眠研究的研究生才能 由本计划支持。博士后研究员将从博士和/或医学博士项目的应届毕业生中挑选，他们具有睡眠或相关领域的研究经验，并明确承诺至少接受两年的睡眠研究项目培训。这项培训计划中的导师已经建立了对睡眠研究至关重要的成功的个人和合作研究计划，而这笔培训补助金将 使他们能够利用这些综合研究计划的优势来培训下一代睡眠研究人员。(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks support for an established Training Program in Sleep Research which offers predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows interdisciplinary training in a wide range of scientific disciplines that are central to the future of sleep research. Training will occur at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago by faculty who have an established track record for integrating the strengths of the two Universities for the performance of research and the training of students in sleep research, chronobiology and related disciplines. The combined research of the nine Primary Training Faculty will enable trainees to integrate cutting edge approaches and techniques in the areas of genetics, genomics, endocrinology, pharmacology, neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, gerontology and chronobiology into their training in sleep research. Because the preceptors in this Training Program are actively involved in research at the molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral levels, trainees will be trained in a rich environment of activities that are integrated together for the study of the basic mechanisms of sleep at all levels of biological organization. A key feature of this Training Program will be the training of students and fellows in both modem basic oriented research as well as patient oriented research using both animal models and humans for the study of sleep. The present training program has expanded from its original 5 preceptors to 9 preceptors which provides the trainees with a truly multidisciplinary program for training in sleep research in the context of cutting edge research in broader biomedical research areas such as cardiovascular physiology, respiratory biology, metabolism and functional genomics. Support is requested for four predoctoral and five postdoctoral students. Only graduate students who have completed most of their course work and who have demonstrated a clear commitment to sleep research will be supported by this Program. Postdoctoral fellows will be selected from recent graduates of a PhD and/or MD program who have research experience in sleep, or in a related field, and who have a clear commitment to at least two years of training in the Sleep Research Program. The preceptors in this Training Program have built successful individual as well as collaborative research programs that are of central importance to sleep research, and this Training Grant will enable them to utilize the strengths of these integrated research programs for the training of the next generation of sleep researchers. (End of Abstract)