BRITE Veterinary Student Program

 基础研究沉浸式培训体验（BRITE）计划为有才华的兽医学生提供以研究为导向，以实验室为基础的研究生体验，最终目标是吸引兽医进入生物医学研究职业。BRITE项目的教师和管理人员致力于在涉及传染病，转化生理学和比较生物医学的生物医学研究的独特领域中培养兽医科学家，在桥接基因型-表型关系的保护伞下。BRITE导师库包括富有成效、资金充足的教师，他们在堪萨斯州立大学的四个学院和八个系担任主要学术职务。该计划的具体目标是提供选择兽医学生：（1）研究生在生物医学实验室的杰出科学家的研究经验;和（2）指导的机会，关于批判性思维过程固有的赠款写作和假设驱动的研究，方法固有的设计和执行实验室实验和临床试验，和伦理问题的基本生物医学研究的负责任的行为。在目前的NIH T32资助周期中，已经实施了一些策略，以提高兽医研究学者计划（VRSP，NIH T35资助）的利用率，作为BRITE（NIH T32资助）计划的一个补充，并开发一个资助的DVM-PhD计划。VRSP（NIH T35），BRITE（NIH T32）和DVM-PhD课程现在位于顺序定位，本质耦合的培训课程，为兽医学员提供独特而强大的研究环境。此外，堪萨斯州立大学正处于前所未有的研究发展和增长阶段，包括生物安全研究所的开放，国家生物和农业防御设施的持续建设，动物健康走廊的持续发展（世界上最大的动物保健公司集中地），和初步考虑建立一个兽医比较医学区域中心。这些广泛而多样的大学、公共和私人实体未来的科学和研究需求将是巨大的， 需要训练有素的兽医科学家目前的更新申请要求在未来五年内每年为一名NIH资助的博士前BRITE学生提供项目支持。BRITE的学生将一学年的时间用于生物医学研究。BRITE的研究经验与获得兽医生物医学科学硕士学位相结合，这是一个基于兽医学院的跨学科研究生课程。合并后的堪萨斯州立大学兽医学院课程（VRSP; BRITE; DVM-PhD）具有独特的优势，可以提供训练有素的兽医科学家，为具有重大国家利益的人类和动物研究的重要领域做出开创性贡献。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Basic Research Immersion Training Experience (BRITE) Program provides talented veterinary students a research-oriented, laboratory-based, graduate experience with the ultimate goal of attracting veterinarians into biomedical research careers. The BRITE program faculty and administration are dedicated to train veterinarian-scientists in a unique spectrum of biomedical research involving infectious disease, translational physiology, and comparative biomedicine, under an umbrella that bridges genotype-phenotype relationships. The pool of BRITE mentors includes productive, well-funded faculty members with primary academic appointments in four colleges and eight departments at Kansas State University. The specific goals of the program are to provide select veterinary students with: (1) graduate research experiences in the biomedical laboratories of outstanding scientists; and (2) mentored opportunities regarding critical thinking processes inherent to grant writing and hypothesis-driven research, methodologies intrinsic to the design and execution of laboratory experiments and clinical trials, and ethical issues fundamental to the responsible conduct of biomedical research. Strategies have been implemented in the current NIH T32 funding cycle to enhance the utilization of the Veterinary Research Scholars Program (VRSP, NIH T35-funded) as a feeder for the BRITE (NIH T32-funded) program and to develop a funded DVM-PhD program. The VRSP (NIH T35), BRITE (NIH T32), and DVM-PhD programs are now situated as sequentially-positioned, intrinsically-coupled training programs that provide a unique and robust research environment for veterinary trainees. In addition, Kansas State University is in an unprecedented research development and growth phase that includes the opening of the Biosecurity Research Institute, the on-going construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, the continued development of the Animal Health Corridor (home to the world's largest concentration of animal health companies), and initial considerations for the development of a Regional Center for Veterinary Comparative Medicine. The future scientific and research needs of these extensive and varied university, public, and private entities will be substantial and will require highly-trained veterinarian-scientists. The current renewal application requests programmatic support for one predoctoral NIH-funded BRITE student per year for the next five years. BRITE students devote an academic year to biomedical research. The BRITE research experience is coupled with earning a Master's Degree in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, a College of Veterinary Medicine-based interdisciplinary graduate program. The combined Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine programs (VRSP; BRITE; DVM-PhD) are uniquely positioned to provide highly-trained veterinarian-scientists that can make seminal contributions to important areas of human and animal research that are of significant national interest.