Multidisciplinary Training in Vision and Research

描述（由申请人提供）：这个正在进行的计划的主要目标是提供密集的基础和转化科学培训的个人谁将成为杰出的视觉研究人员。提供免疫学、细胞生物学、分子生物学、生理学、药理学、遗传学、发育生物学、神经科学和生物化学等学科的培训，重点是了解正常眼部过程以及角膜、视网膜和脉络膜疾病、白内障、青光眼和视觉处理的基本机制。该计划采用多学科方法，重点是基础科学家和各种临床学科之间的合作，并为国家眼科研究所的一些主要任务提供实验室调查的设施和监督。项目主任监督受训人员的选择，并提供适当的背景，技术培训和导师正在进行的研究监督。受训人员包括：（1）来自埃默里大学研究生院生物和生物医学科学部的生物化学，细胞和发育生物学，神经科学，营养和健康科学，免疫学和分子病理学以及分子和系统药理学课程的博士前学生;（2）博士后研究员寻求与一个（或多个）导师在与视觉研究相关的科学领域进行高级培训。每个受训者选择或被分配一名导师，与他或她一起制定研究建议，进行研究并参与导师正在进行的研究项目。所有学员都必须参加埃默里眼科中心的研讨会、课程工作、大查房和其他教育活动，埃默里眼科中心是该地区眼科研究和临床护理的协调中心。因此，该计划还有助于整合临床和基础科学部门。此外，该计划成功地吸引了少数民族学员的职业生涯， 研究，利用亚特兰大学术和医疗机构的优秀资源。 公共卫生相关性： 治疗致盲性眼病的未来依赖于训练有素的视觉科学家的持续供应 我们的目标是培养下一代精通基础，临床和医学的科学家。 转化研究方法，将需要履行国家眼科研究所的使命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of this ongoing program is to provide intensive basic and translational science training for individuals who will become outstanding vision researchers. Training is provided in the disciplines of immunology, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, genetics, developmental biology, neuroscience and biochemistry, with an emphasis on understanding the fundamental mechanisms that underlie normal ocular processes, as well as corneal, retinal and choroidal diseases, cataract, glaucoma and visual processing. The program has a multidisciplinary approach, with emphasis on collaboration between basic scientists and the various clinical disciplines and it provides the facilities and supervision for laboratory investigations relative to some of the major missions of the National Eye Institute. The program directors oversee the selection of trainees and the provision of appropriate background, technical training and ongoing research supervision by the preceptors. The trainees include: (1) Predoctoral students from the Emory University Graduate School Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the Programs of Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, Nutrition and Health Science, Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis, and Molecular and Systems Pharmacology; (2) Postdoctoral Fellows seeking advanced training with one (or more) of the preceptors in a scientific area pertinent to vision research. Each trainee selects or is assigned a preceptor with whom he or she develops a research proposal, conducts the research and participates in the ongoing research projects of the preceptor. All trainees are required to participate in the seminar, course work, grand rounds and other educational activities of the Emory Eye Center, which is the focal point for eye research and clinical care in the region. Thus, the program also serves to integrate the clinical and basic science departments. In addition, the program successfully attracts minority trainees to careers in eye research, drawing on the outstanding resources of Atlanta academic and medical institutions. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The future of curing blinding eye disease relies on a continued supply of well-trained vision scientists goal is to produce the next generation of scientists who are well versed in the basic, clinical, and translational research approaches that will be needed to fulfill the mission of the National Eye Institute.