IGERT: Life Chip

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖支持加州大学欧文分校生命芯片跨学科研究生培训计划的建立。该计划的目的是为研究生提供在纳米/微技术和生命科学之间进行研究所需技能的强化跨学科培训。总的研究主题是通过研究、教育和推广促进纳米/微技术与生命科学的结合。纳米/微型世界为工程学、生物学、物理学、化学和医学等传统不同学科的研究提供了一个天然的共同点。将工程艺术和生命科学相结合的努力将加快这两个领域的发展，带来解决工业和人类状况问题的新创新。研究生培训将从一个密集的暑期项目开始，旨在让新学生直接接触工程和生命科学实验室的研究工具，并与双重导师进行互动，以解决学生在一开始就存在的文化障碍。学生将参与结合纳米/微技术和生命科学的研究项目，并有来自生命科学和技术艺术的教职调查人员。该项目的毕业生将成为下一代生命芯片研究的领导者。他们将准备做出开创性的科学发现，将这些发现转化为广泛可用的技术，并将这些技术应用于生命科学、医学和工程领域的问题。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of an interdisciplinary graduate training program in Life Chips at the University of California, Irvine. The purpose of this program is to provide graduate students with enhanced interdisciplinary training in the skills required for conducting research at the interface of nano/micro-technology and life science. The over-arching research theme is to promote the union of nano/micro technology and life science through research, education and outreach. The nano/micro-world provides a natural common ground for research in traditionally distinct disciplines of engineering, biology, physics, chemistry and medicine. Efforts that combine engineering arts and life sciences will accelerate developments in both fields, bringing new innovations to solve the problems of industry and the human condition. Graduate training will commence with an intensive summer program designed to put new students directly in contact with research tools from both engineering and life science laboratories, and provide interaction with dual mentors to tackle cultural barriers for the students at the onset. Students will participate in research projects that combine nano/micro-technology and life science, and that have faculty investigators from life sciences and technology arts. Graduates of this program will be leaders in the next generation of Life Chip research. They will be poised to make seminal scientific discoveries, transform these discoveries into broadly available technologies, and apply these technologies to problems in the fields of life sciences, medicine and engineering. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.