Training Program in Oral Science

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求资金支持罗切斯特口腔科学培训计划。社会必须培养更多的临床科学家，以利用生物医学科学的快速和戏剧性的进步。在过去的20多年里，口腔生物学中心的培训项目在招募、培训和留住口腔科学研究人员方面取得了巨大的成功。罗彻斯特大学医学中心已经投入了大量资源来招募新的教师，改善我们的物理设施，并获得新技术。这种对我们研究环境的增强承诺扩展了在生物医学科学中脱颖而出所需的培训的深度和广度。罗彻斯特大学有着悠久的历史，致力于培养牙医毕业生。口腔科学培训计划（TPOS）的总体目标是为牙科科学家和口腔生物学家提供更好的培训机会，使他们能够在学术，联邦和工业组织中从事牙科和医学的研究工作。跨学科培训将侧重于口腔传染病的一般领域，颅面结构的细胞和发育生物学，以及对口腔疾病表现的临床/转化方法的培训。TPOS的目标是招聘希望攻读博士学位的牙医和希望从事博士后水平培训的牙科博士。我们还将招收博士和攻读博士学位的学士学位。以这种方式，博士水平的科学家将被招募到口腔科学领域。我们的项目为希望协调临床研究和博士培训的牙科学生提供DST项目。这个新颖的项目与马奎特大学、波多黎各大学和肯塔基大学优秀的临床项目以及研究密集型的罗切斯特大学医学中心的博士项目合作。最后，我们的项目将包括R90研究教育，为国际培训的DDS，博士双学位持有个人。TPOS的各个组成部分通过罗切斯特研究生计划的教育选择、伊士曼口腔健康研究所的临床培训计划以及罗切斯特临床和转化科学研究所的临床/转化教育资源进行整合。期望TPOS学员为口腔科学研究的职业生涯做好充分准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested in this application to support the Rochester Training Program in Oral Science. Additional clinician-scientists must be generated for society to take advantage of the rapid and dramatic advances being made in the biomedical sciences. The Center for Oral Biology's training programs have been highly successful in recruiting, training and retaining Oral Science researchers over the past 20+ years. The University of Rochester Medical Center has committed substantial resources to recruit new faculty, to improve our physical plant, and to acquire new technologies. This enhanced commitment to our research environment expands the depth and breadth of training necessary to excel in the biomedical sciences. The University of Rochester has a long history and commitment to training graduate dentists. The overall goal of the Training Program in Oral Science (TPOS) is to provide improved training opportunities for dentist-scientists and oral biologists that will enable them to pursue research careers in dentistry and medicine at academic, federal and industrial organizations. Cross-disciplinary training will focus on the general fields of oral infectious diseases, the cellular and developmental biology of craniofacial structures, with training in clinical/translational approaches to the manifestations of oral disease. TPOS targets the recruitment of dentists who wish to pursue a PhD and dentist-PhDs who want to engage in post-doctoral level training. We will also recruit PhDs and baccalaureate degree-holders pursuing a PhD. In this manner, PhD level scientists will be recruited to the field of Oral Science. Our program features a DST Program for dental students who wish to coordinate clinical studies with PhD training. This novel program partners the excellent clinical programs at Marquette University, the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Kentucky with the PhD programs at the research-intensive University of Rochester Medical Center. Finally, our program will include R90 research education for internationally trained DDS, PhD dual degree holding individuals. The various components of TPOS are integrated through educational options of the Rochester Graduate Program, the clinical training programs of the Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and the clinical/translational educational resources of the Rochester Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. TPOS trainees are expected to be highly prepared for careers in Oral Science research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed Training Program aims to prepare scientists and dentists to become leaders in the research of oral disease and oral/facial birth defects. The program will integrate classroom work, research in laboratories and hospitals, and in dental clinics in a multidisciplinary fashion. Our long-term goal is to accelerate the pace at which effective, new treatments for diseases can be brought to the public to lessen suffering and improve lives.