Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 跨学科生物医学成像培训计划将准备博士前学员成为生物体水平，生物医学成像研究的领导者。需要工程师、物理学家、生物学家和临床医生组成的多学科团队来推进生物医学成像，特别是随着体内细胞和分子成像的出现。我们将培养下一代跨学科的生物医学成像科学家和工程师，他们将为这些团队做出贡献并领导这些团队。我们的培训计划将建立在最近的研究基础设施奖和机构投资总额- $37M的生物医学成像。除了建立最先进的成像设施外，成像教员的人数从1999年的3人增加到20人。培训补助金将使学生成为正在进行的跨学科/多学科研究项目的中心。学员将使用新的成像设施的情况下，小动物成像研究中心，其中包括4核磁共振成像，微型SPECT/CT，微型PET，3生物发光，在体内荧光等博士前学员将从生物医学工程和物理，这两个具有悠久的历史，在生物医学成像培训的高度评价部门。学员将开展研究项目，结合成像技术与生物医学研究。每个学员将有一个主要导师谁专门从事使能技术，或应用程序，和一个或多个共同导师谁专门从事生物医学研究。指导委员会，现实的规则和学生的投资组合将确保合适的研究经验。一个全面的教育计划将包括一系列成像课程，包括细胞和分子成像和跨学科成像发现组，这是一个专门为跨学科教育设计的新课程。我们将在指定的成像时间内通过一系列多样化的活动促进跨学科研究的文化。尽管我们在筹款方面取得了成功，但非常需要博士前成像培训补助金，因为根本不存在，而且由于财政拮据，我们大学最近取消了对研究生第一年的支持。培训补助金将有助于使研究生与博士后相比具有成本效益，并确保在这一急需领域对国内博士进行培训。与公共卫生相关。生物医学成像能够实现疾病的早期检测、治疗评估和微创治疗。特别是随着细胞和分子成像的出现，生物医学成像研究需要具有较强跨学科培训的人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon recent research infrastructure awards and institutional investments totaling - $37M in biomedical imaging. In addition to the creation of state-of-the-art imaging facilities, the number of imaging faculty members has increased from 3 in 1999 to 20. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use new imaging facilities in the Case Small Animal Imaging Research Center, which includes 4 MRIs, micro-SPECT/CT, micro-PET, 3 bioluminescence, in vivo fluorescence, etc. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have a primary mentor who specializes in enabling technologies, or applications, and one or more co-mentors who specialize in biomedical research. A steering committee, realistic rules, and a student portfolio will ensure suitable research experiences. A comprehensive educational program will include a portfolio of imaging courses, including Cellular and Molecular Imaging and Interdisciplinary Imaging Discovery Group, a new course specially designed for interdisciplinary education. We will promote a culture of interdisciplinary research in a series of diverse activities during a designated Imaging Hour. Despite our successes with fund-raising, a predoctoral imaging training grant is sorely needed because none exists and because first-year support of graduate students has recently been eliminated at our university due to financial constraints. A training grant will help make graduate students cost effective as compared to post docs and ensure training of domestic PhD's in this area of critical need. Relevance to Public Health. Biomedical imaging enables early detection, assessment of therapy, and minimally-invasive treatment of disease. Especially with the advent of cellular and molecular imaging, biomedical imaging research requires persons with strong interdisciplinary training.