Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research

描述(申请人提供)：2型糖尿病的发病率正在上升，以至于糖尿病的迅速和广泛的性质在美国被称为大流行；1型糖尿病也在以意想不到的速度增加。因此，迫切需要创新的疗法和技术来应对这种情况，因此需要培训一支未来的科学家队伍，他们能够设计具有深入知识和培训的设备和疗法，将其研究与临床护理联系起来，以解决糖尿病的预防和治疗问题。印第安纳州糖尿病研究生物工程跨学科培训计划就是为了满足这一需求而设计的。我们项目的一个新颖和值得注意的方面是普渡大学韦尔登生物医学工程学院的顶尖教员与印第安纳大学医学院的特殊糖尿病研究人员的互动和整合，为未来的生物工程师-糖尿病专家提供和精英培训经验。凭借我们印第安纳州MSTP T32和印第安纳州CTSI培训计划的成功，这种教育模式已经证明是可行的。印第安纳州糖尿病研究生物工程跨学科培训计划的目标是提供跨学科的综合研究培训，将博士前学生培养成生物工程师，能够领导以团队为基础的综合方法，解决与糖尿病和糖尿病并发症的理解、预防和治疗相关的问题。这种独特的综合形式得益于每个机构项目使用多PI机制的联合董事制度，A.Panitch博士(普渡大学生物医学工程PI)和D.瑟蒙德博士(印第安纳大学医学院糖尿病研究PI)协调一组模范生物工程和糖尿病研究人员共同指导我们的学生，再加上精心设计的灵活课程，为学生提供与糖尿病相关的工程方面的深入培训。我们的课程强调通过量化技能拓宽研究训练的范围，提供公开演讲的机会，提供丰富的课外机会，并允许在所有年的培训中整合医学和科学/工程。制定了明确的监督机制，在整个计划中跟踪受训人员的进展。通过在为生物工程和糖尿病研究提供强有力的跨学科支持的环境和文化中进行培训，生物工程受训人员很有可能保持对糖尿病的兴趣，即使他们的特定研究兴趣在他们的职业生涯中不断发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is on the rise to the extent that diabetes rapid and widespread nature has been referred to as pandemic in the United States; type 1 diabetes is also increasing at an unexpected rate. As such, there is an urgent need for innovative therapeutics and technologies to deal with this situation, and hence a need to train a cadre of future scientists who can engineer devices and therapeutics with in-depth knowledge and training to link their research to clinical care to address the prevention and treatment of diabetes. The Indiana Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research program was conceived to meet this need. A novel and notable aspect of our program is the interaction and integration of premier faculty of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University with the exceptional diabetes research faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine, providing and elite training experience for future bioengineer-diabetologists. This educational model has already proven feasibility, by virtue of the successes of our Indiana MSTP T32 and our Indiana CTSI training programs. The aim of the Indiana Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research program is to provide interdisciplinary, integrated research training to develop predoctoral students into bioengineers capable of leading integrative and team-based approaches to solve issues relevant to the understanding, prevention and treatment of diabetes and diabetic complications. This unique and integrated format benefits from co-directorship by each institutional program using the multi-PI mechanism, with Dr. A. Panitch (Biomedical engineering PI, Purdue University) and Dr. D. Thurmond (Diabetes research PI, Indiana University School of Medicine) coordinating a select group of exemplary bioengineering and diabetes-based research faculties to co-mentor our students, in combination with a carefully designed flexible curriculum that provides in-depth training for students in engineering relevant to diabetes. Our program emphasizes coursework that broadens research training at the bench with quantitative skills, provides opportunities for public speaking, provides a range of enriching extracurricular opportunities, and allows for integration of medicine and science/engineering throughout all years of training. Defined oversight mechanisms are in place to track the progress of trainees throughout the program. By training in an environment and culture that gives strong interdisciplinary support for bioengineering and diabetes research, there is a significant probability that the bioengineering trainees will sustain an interest in diabetes, even as their specific research interests evolve over their careers.