Mechanisms of Health and Disease at the Behavioral-Biomedical Interface

描述(由申请人提供)：行为科学和生物医学科学的接口是当今最活跃的科学前沿之一。拟议的培训计划，行为-生物医学界面的健康和疾病机制，旨在培养博士后学生迎接这一挑战，成为行为和生物医学科学的领导者和创新者。为了响应NIGMS发起的在行为和生物医学科学领域培训博士后研究生的倡议，我们提出了一项创新的新培训计划，重点是行为-生物医学界面培训，围绕三个主题：寿命脑健康、慢性病心理生物学和女性健康与疾病。我们计划的总体目标是培训下一代行为科学研究人员利用生物医学方法和概念框架，延伸他们的思维和研究的边界，使他们能够在理解健康和行为方面取得革命性的突破。通过课程和实验室经验的结合，该项目将为博士后学生提供(1)广泛的行为科学基础知识培训，包括统计方法和实验设计，以及健康心理学和行为医学、临床心理学和神经科学的关键问题；(2)病理生理学和特定生物医学研究领域(包括这些领域的概念框架、驱动假设和实验室技术)的深入培训；以及(3)为开发和实施跨越行为和生物医学科学的创新型独立研究项目提供指导和指导。培训计划将由爱荷华州大学心理学系和医学院的教职员工进行，将使我们能够在爱荷华州已经非正式存在的界面上正式和加强培训。这项计划与公共卫生高度相关，因为行为-生物医学界面的培训将使这些科学家能够更有效地理解和创新地解决健康和疾病的机制。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The interface of behavioral and biomedical sciences is one of the most vibrant frontiers of science today. The proposed Training Program, Mechanisms of Health and Disease at the Behavioral- Biomedical Interface, is designed to train predoctoral students to meet this challenge and to be the leaders and innovators of Behavioral and Biomedical science. In response to the NIGMS-sponsored initiative to train predoctoral students at the interface of Behavioral and Biomedical science, we propose an innovative new Training Program focused on Behavioral-Biomedical interface training around three themes: Lifespan Brain Health, Psychobiology of Chronic Disease, and Women's Health and Disease. The overarching objective of our Program is to train the next generation of behavioral science researchers to utilize biomedical methodologies and conceptual frameworks that stretch the boundaries of their thinking and research to enable them to make transformative breakthroughs in understanding both health and behavior. Through a combination of coursework and laboratory experiences, the program will provide predoctoral students with (1) Broad based training in the fundamentals of behavioral science including statistical methodology and experimental design, and key issues in health psychology and behavioral medicine, clinical psychology, and neuroscience; (2) In-depth training in pathophysiology and specific biomedical research areas (including the conceptual framework, driving hypotheses, and laboratory techniques of those areas); and (3) guidance and mentoring for development and implementation of an innovative independent research program that spans both behavioral and biomedical science. The Training Program will be conducted by faculty from the Department of Psychology and the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa and will enable us to formalize and strengthen the training at the interface that already exists informally at Iowa. This program is highly relevant to public health because training at the behavioral-biomedical interface will enable these scientists to more effectively understand and innovatively address mechanisms of health and disease.