Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program

生物医学科学中的微流控培训计划

• 批准号: 7944375
• 负责人: ROBERT T KENNEDY
• 金额: $ 25.72万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-30 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7944375
• 关键词: Microfluidics; Science; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The field of microfluidics is uniquely poised to make a broad impact in biomedical sciences through the miniaturization and mass parallelization of biological experimentation. For example, future advances in microfluidics could revolutionize disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and pathogen detection. For these impacts to be realized we need individuals conversant in engineering, chemistry, biology, and medical sciences. Currently however, such cross-trained people are in short supply. To address this shortage, we propose a five-year program to train the next generation of biomedical microfluidics experts. This program combines the expertise of faculty from engineering, chemistry, physics, and the medical school plus the world-class Solid State Electronics Laboratory (SSEL) for state-of-the-art micro- and nanofabrication. The premise of the program is that students should have significant training in both the methods of microfluidics and in the biomedical applications of this technology. Such training enhances the communication between disciplines, identification of solvable biomedical and clinical problems, and selection of appropriate tools to solve these problems. The training of the students in this program will involve a combination of course work, seminar series, hands-on workshop, annual symposium, journal club, and cross-disciplinary lab rotation or collaboration. All of these activities are beyond the requirements of the trainee's home department. The core course for this program "Microfluidic Science and Engineering" has been taught for several years with success. The seminar and workshop were originally developed by graduate students independent of the training program showing the enthusiasm of the graduate students for this topic. We feel that this combination of practical teaching, cross- disciplinary exposure, and intensive microfluidic study will produce students well positioned to answer the growing need for highly educated and trained microfluidics experts. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application seeks to train scientists and engineers to utilize microfluidic technology for application to biomedical science. Microfluidics enables control of fluids at micron dimensions. The technology has potential for improving healthcare through many application areas including diagnostics, enabling new research, and drug discovery.

描述（由申请人提供）：微流体领域通过生物实验的小型化和大规模并行化，在生物医学科学中具有独特的影响力。例如，微流体技术的未来发展可能会给疾病诊断、药物发现和病原体检测带来革命性的变化。为了实现这些影响，我们需要精通工程、化学、生物和医学科学的个人。然而，目前这种交叉训练的人才供不应求。为了解决这一短缺，我们提出了一个五年计划，以培养下一代生物医学微流体专家。该计划结合了来自工程，化学，物理和医学院的教师的专业知识以及世界一流的固体电子实验室（SSEL），用于最先进的微纳米制造。该计划的前提是学生应该在微流体方法和该技术的生物医学应用方面接受重要的培训。这种培训加强了学科之间的交流，识别可解决的生物医学和临床问题，并选择适当的工具来解决这些问题。本课程对学生的培训将包括课程作业、系列研讨会、实践工作坊、年度研讨会、期刊俱乐部以及跨学科的实验室轮转或合作。所有这些活动都超出了培训生所在部门的要求。本专业核心课程“微流体科学与工程”已成功开设数年。研讨会和工作坊最初是由研究生独立于培训计划开发的，显示了研究生对该主题的热情。我们认为，实践教学、跨学科接触和密集的微流控研究相结合，将使学生能够很好地满足对受过高等教育和训练的微流控专家日益增长的需求。