Integrative Immunology Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学西南医学中心(UT Southwest)的综合免疫学培训计划(IITP)将为博士后、医学科学家实习生和博士后研究员提供全面的培训，为他们在免疫学相关研究领域的职业生涯做好准备。我们有35年历史的培训计划的目标是培养高素质的科学家来调查和解决重大问题 与免疫相关的问题。我们的高级免疫学培训将为学员提供必要的基本技能，以应对全球健康问题，如新出现的传染病、遭受自身免疫性疾病之苦的老龄化人口，以及涉及代谢紊乱(糖尿病)、心血管疾病和癌症的医疗危机，这些疾病都会受到免疫反应的极大影响。培训将包括尖端研究、具有智力挑战的教学免疫学课程、进行中的研讨会、研究计划书写作班、多个讲座系列和期刊俱乐部。我们有一个出色的项目具体计划，以招募和保留广泛的地理范围的博士后和博士后申请者，以及代表不足的少数族裔学员。我们的培训计划包括负责任的研究、伦理学课程、统计研讨会和增强的科学/研究对话的课程工作。此外，我们还为学员提供接触临床环境的机会，通过与国家排名医疗中心的主治医师一起进行案例演示。德克萨斯大学西南免疫学/传染病研究生项目在全国排名第九，我们目前的培训机制将使我们在培训高素质人才方面继续保持领先地位。德克萨斯大学西南医学中心致力于这一培训机制，为实现我们的目标所必需的校园行政人员和核心设施提供支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Integrative Immunology Training Program (IITP) at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) will provide comprehensive training to pre-doctoral students, medical scientist trainees, and post-doctoral fellows, preparing them for careers in immunology-related research fields. The goal of our 35 year old training program is to train top-quality scientists to investigate and resolve significant immune-related problems. Our advanced immunology training will provide trainees with the essential skills necessary to respond to global health issues such as emerging infectious diseases, an aging population suffering the ills of autoimmune diseases, and health care crises involving metabolic disorders (diabetes), cardiovascular diseases, and cancer, which are dramatically affected by the immune response. The training will include cutting edge research, intellectually challenging didactic immunology courses, works-in-progress seminars, a research proposal writing class, multiple lecture series, and journal clubs. We have an excellent program- specific plan to recruit and retain a geographically broad range of pre- and post- doctoral applicants as well as underrepresented minority trainees. Included in our training program is course work on the responsible conduct of research, ethics classes, statistics workshops, and enhanced scientific/research dialog. In addition, we provide our trainees with exposure to clinical settings using case presentations with attending physicians at nationally ranked Medical Centers. The UT Southwestern Immunology/Infectious Diseases Graduate Program is ranked 9th in the nation, and our current training mechanisms will enable us to continue as a leader in training highly qualified individuals. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to this training mechanism, supporting the administrative personnel and core facilities on campus that are necessary to achieve our goals.