NSADA Training Grant for Child Neurologists

描述(由申请人提供)： 以研究为导向的儿科神经科医生严重短缺。我们的神经科学学术发展奖(NSADA)的目标是通过培养新一代儿科神经科医生来帮助解决这一短缺问题，这些神经科医生具备开展以儿童神经疾病为中心的独立、创新的临床和实验室研究的能力。我们的计划吸收了基因组学、发育生物学、干细胞生物学以及细胞、系统和行为神经生物学的最新进展，为癫痫、肌肉营养不良和其他儿童流行的神经疾病的研究开辟了新的途径。我们的计划将每年支持一名儿科神经学研究实习生，最长可达3年。我们的培训人员包括来自费城儿童医院(CHOP)和宾夕法尼亚大学医学院(U Of P)的25名科学导师。这些导师中的每一位都在与儿科神经病学高度相关的领域拥有活跃的研究计划，以及培训临床医生/研究人员的良好记录。我们提供的研究机会分为两个广泛的领域，CHOP和P大学在这两个领域具有特别的优势：癫痫和神经肌肉研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a critical shortage of research-oriented pediatric neurologists. The goal of our Neurological Sciences Academic Development Award (NSADA) is to help to address this shortage by training a new generation of pediatric neurologists equipped to carry out independent, innovative clinical and laboratory- based research centered on neurological diseases of childhood. Our program draws substance from recent progress in genomics, developmental biology, stem cell biology, and cellular, systems, and behavioral neurobiology, which open new avenues for research in the epilepsies, muscular dystrophies, and other prevalent neurological diseases of childhood. Our program will support one pediatric neurology research trainee per year for up to 3 years. Our training faculty includes 25 scientific mentors from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (U of P). Each of these mentors has both an active research program in an area highly relevant to pediatric neurology, and a strong record of training clinician/investigators. The research opportunities we provide fall into two broad areas in which CHOP and the U of P have particular strengths: Epilepsy and Neuromuscular research.