Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research

描述（由申请人提供）：2型糖尿病的发病率呈上升趋势，糖尿病的快速和广泛性在美国已被称为流行病；1型糖尿病也在以意想不到的速度增长。因此，迫切需要创新的治疗方法和技术来应对这种情况，因此需要培养一批未来的科学家骨干，他们能够设计具有深入知识和培训的设备和治疗方法，将他们的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。印第安纳州生物工程跨学科糖尿病研究培训计划就是为了满足这一需求。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一流教师与印第安纳大学医学院卓越的糖尿病研究教师的互动和整合，为未来的生物工程师-糖尿病学家提供精英培训经验。凭借我们印第安纳州MSTP T32和印第安纳州CTSI培训项目的成功，这种教育模式已经被证明是可行的。印第安纳州生物工程跨学科糖尿病研究培训项目的目标是提供跨学科的综合研究培训，将博士生培养成能够领导综合和基于团队的方法来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的生物工程师。这种独特而综合的形式得益于每个机构项目使用多PI机制的共同领导，a . Panitch博士（普渡大学生物医学工程PI）和D. Thurmond博士（印第安纳大学医学院糖尿病研究PI）协调了一组典型的生物工程和糖尿病研究学院，共同指导我们的学生。结合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。我们的项目强调的课程，拓宽了在板凳上的研究训练与定量技能，提供了公开演讲的机会，提供了一系列丰富的课外机会，并允许整合医学和科学/工程贯穿所有年的培训。有明确的监督机制，在整个项目中跟踪受训人员的进展。通过在一个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，生物工程受训者很有可能会对糖尿病保持兴趣，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.