Predoctoral Training in Pharmacological Sciences

 描述(由申请人提供)：该博士前培训计划旨在提供广泛的药理学教育，以获得博士学位。药理学培训计划(PSTP)主要设在匹兹堡大学医学院的药理学和化学生物学系，但也包括来自大学内三个学院和十个系的教师，包括麻醉学、化学、免疫学、医学、微生物学和分子遗传学、神经生物学、神经病学、耳鼻喉科、药剂学和结构生物学。进入该项目的研究生通常首先被招募到跨学科生物医学研究生项目(IBGP)，在那里他们加入一个项目，该项目包括生物医学科学、科学伦理和统计以及研究轮换方面的核心教学教育。 在多样化招聘方面不断取得的成功，是方案支助计划与IBGP联合进行和独立进行的一个主要重点。然后，学生转到他们选择的专业博士项目，并在第二年成为支持的候选人。该培训计划提供现代药理学基本要素的研究生课程，包括神经药理学、癌症药理学、心血管药理学、信号转导和药物发现以及定量药代动力学、药效学和药物新陈代谢的要素。学生从七个研究领域之一的资金充足的教师那里选择导师：癌症药理学、DNA修复、细胞和器官系统药理学、药物发现、神经药理学。信号转导与结构药理学。在完成综合考试和毕业论文提案后，学生将在本课程的第三年及以后的时间里全职从事研究工作。PSTP还强调在批判性思维技能和负责任的研究方面的培训，以及提供促进职业成功的技能培训(例如，公开演讲、探索职业替代方案)。因此，PSTP为在丰富的研究环境中积极进取的学生提供了一个当代和令人兴奋的培训机会，旨在培养对药理学学科有广泛欣赏的博士毕业生。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Predoctoral Training Program is designed to provide a broad education in the Pharmacological Sciences leading to the Ph.D. degree. The Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (PSTP) is based primarily in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, but also includes faculty from three schools within the University and ten departments including Anesthesiology, Chemistry, Immunology, Medicine, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology, Neurology, Otolaryngology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Structural Biology. Graduate students entering this program are typically first recruited into the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (IBGP) where they join a program that includes core didactic education in biomedical sciences, scientific ethics and statistics and research rotations. Continued and growing success with diversity recruitment is a major emphasis of the PSTP in conjunction with and independent of the IBGP. Students then transfer into the specialized Ph.D. program of their choice and become candidates for support in their second year. The training program provides graduate classes in the essential elements of modern pharmacology including neuropharmacology, cancer pharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, signal transduction and drug discovery and also the elements of quantitative pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism. Students choose mentors from a well-funded faculty in one of seven research areas: Cancer Pharmacology, DNA repair, Cell and Organ System Pharmacology, Drug Discovery, Neuropharmacology. Signal Transduction and Structural Pharmacology. Following completion of the comprehensive exam and a dissertation proposal, students are engaged full time in research in the third and subsequent years of this program. The PSTP also emphasizes training in critical thinking skills and in the responsible conduct of research and as well provides training in skills (e.g. public presentations, exploration of career alternatives) tht promote professional success. The PSTP thus provides a contemporary and exciting training opportunity for motivated students within a rich research environment and aims to generate Ph.D. graduates with a broad appreciation of the discipline of pharmacology.