BRITE Veterinary Student Program

 描述(由申请者提供)：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项目的教职员工和管理人员致力于在涉及传染病、翻译生理学和比较生物医学的独特生物医学研究领域培训兽医科学家，在一个连接基因-表型关系的保护伞下。BRITE导师库中包括工作效率高、资金充足的教职员工，他们在堪萨斯州立大学的四所学院和八个系担任主要学术职务。该计划的具体目标是为精选的兽医学生提供：(1)杰出科学家在生物医学实验室的研究生研究经验；(2)关于批文写作和假设驱动研究固有的批判性思维过程、实验室实验和临床试验设计和执行的内在方法以及对负责任的生物医学研究至关重要的伦理问题的指导机会。在当前的NIH T32资助周期中已经实施了战略，以加强利用兽医研究学者计划(VRSP，NIH T35资助)作为BRITE(NIH T32资助)计划的支线，并开发一个资助的DVM-PhD计划。VRSP(NIH T35)、BRITE(NIH T32)和DVM-PHD课程现在被定位为顺序定位的、内在耦合的培训课程，为兽医实习生提供了一个独特和强大的研究环境。此外，堪萨斯州立大学正处于前所未有的研究开发和增长阶段，包括生物安全研究所的成立，正在进行的国家生物和农业防御设施的建设，动物健康走廊(世界上最大的动物保健公司聚集地)的继续发展，以及发展地区兽医比较医学中心的初步考虑。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，并将 需要训练有素的兽医科学家。目前的续签申请要求在未来五年内每年为一名NIH资助的BRITE博士前学生提供项目支持。布莱特学院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硕士学位相结合，这是一个以兽医学院为基础的跨学科研究生项目。合并后的堪萨斯州立大学兽医学院项目(VRSP；BRITE；DVM-PHD)具有独特的定位，可以提供训练有素的兽医科学家，他们可以为具有重大国家利益的重要人类和动物研究领域做出开创性的贡献。

 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.