Training in Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis

描述（由申请人提供）：这是第二次竞争性更新的培训计划，为最合格的候选人提供高质量的免疫学和分子发病机理的前和博士后培训。免疫学和分子发病机制（IMP）研究生课程的教师拥有所需的专业知识，为优秀的博士前和博士后培训提供关键的基础。许多参与的教师都有广泛的培训记录，在一些情况下，在他们被埃默里大学招聘之前，他们在以前的机构接受了培训。该计划所代表的研究领域在未来的调查和提供疾病发病机制的新见解方面具有突出的潜力。本系的研究项目分为三个主要训练领域：1)传染病发病机制；2)分子病毒学；3)免疫生物学。IMP的教师是医学院六个基础科学或临床部门的成员，以及耶基斯国家灵长类动物中心，埃默里学院生物系和美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的成员。在过去十年的培训计划中，该资助资助了48名博士生和13名博士后。其中两名博士后学员目前是独立的研究人员（拉霍亚过敏和免疫学研究所；UCSF），另外两名已经获得了个人培训奖，以完成他们的博士后工作。48名博士预科生中，仍在接受博士预科培训的有27人。获得博士学位20人，其中助理教授1人，中心工作人员科学家1人，博士后15人。在这48名获得培训资助的学生中，只有1人离开了该项目（保留率接近100%），这比IMP项目总体上要好。因此，这项培训资助改善了埃默里大学的免疫学和病毒学培训，不仅支持了我们最优秀的学生和博士后，而且通过资助项目系列研讨会的外部演讲者来丰富知识环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the second competing renewal of a training program to provide high quality pre- and postdoctoral training in Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis to the most qualified candidates. The faculty in the graduate Program in Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMP) have the expertise required to provide the foundation that is critical for outstanding predoctoral and postdoctoral training. Many of the participating faculty have extensive training records, in some cases initiated at their former institutions prior to their recruitment to Emory. The areas of research represented by this program have outstanding potential for future investigations and for providing new insights into disease pathogenesis. The research programs of the faculty fall into three main training areas: 1) pathogenesis of infectious diseases; 2) molecular virology; and 3) immunobiology. The faculty of IMP are members of six basic science or clinical departments in the School of Medicine, as well as Yerkes National Primate Center, the Biology Department of Emory College, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the previous ten years of this training program, this grant has provided support for 48 predoctoral and 13 postdoctoral trainees. Two of the postdoctoral trainees are currently independent investigators (LaJolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology; UCSF) and two others have already received individual training awards to complete their postdoctoral work. Of the 48 predoctoral trainees, 27 are still in predoctoral training. Twenty students have received their Ph.D.s of which 1 is an Assistant Professor, 1 is a CDC staff scientist, 15 and are currently postdoctoral fellows. Of these 48 students supported by the training grant only one has left the program (a nearly 100% retention rate), which is better than the IMP program overall. Therefore this training grant has improved immunology and virology training at Emory, supporting not only our most outstanding students and postdocs, but enriching the intellectual environment by funding external speakers in the Program seminar series. RELEVANCE: The relevance for this training program includes the importance of interdisciplinary training in providing the foundation for investigating mechanisms of pathogenesis and the extensive previous involvement of the participating faculty in pre- and postdoctoral training. The availability of funds from this training grant has had a profound positive effect on immunology and virology training at Emory University.