MERRIT: Multidisciplinary Engineering and Renal Research for Innovation of Technology

项目摘要 具有工程和技术背景的受训人员在联合国系统中的代表性历来不足。 肾脏研究领域。我们提出了一个新的研究教育计划，题为梅里特：多学科 西奈山分部与工程和肾脏技术创新研究部的合资企业 和库珀联合工程学院。我们的计划将有三个主要重点：（1）建设 工程实习生对肾脏领域临床和患者需求的可持续认识;（2）创建 为本科生和研究生工程提供创新的团队和个人研究经验 学生;和（3）组织和传播教学和教育课程，从该计划通过 网络和媒体，以便其他机构可以成功地开发类似的程序。我们组建了一个 指导小组由内科科学家、肾脏移植专家和肾脏基础科学家组成 此外，还有来自电气、机械和化学工程系的工程学院。 来自两个机构的具有互补技能的导师将监督以患者为中心的学生发起的 设计项目，以及制药商发起的个人肾脏研究项目。通过实现我们的 我们将为未来的肾脏研究人员和肾脏病学家的培训建立一个可持续的管道， 有扎实的工程背景。

PROJECT SUMMARY Trainees with engineering and technological backgrounds have been traditionally underrepresented in the kidney research field. We propose a new research educational program entitled MERRIT: Multidisciplinary Engineering and Renal Research for Innovation of Technology as a joint venture between Mount Sinai Division of Nephrology and Cooper Union School of Engineering. Our program will have three major foci: (1) building sustainable awareness of clinical and patient needs in the kidney field among engineering trainees; (2) creating innovative team-based and individual research experiences for undergraduate and graduate engineering students; and (3) organize and disseminate pedagogical and educational lessons from the program through web and media such that other institutions can develop similar programs successfully. We have assembled a mentoring team comprising physician scientists and transplant nephrologists and basic scientists in the kidney field as well as engineering faculty from electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering departments. Mentors with complementary skills from the two institutions will supervise patient-centered student-initiated design projects as well investigator-initiated individual kidney research projects. Through achievement of our aims, we will generate a sustainable pipeline for training of future kidney researchers and nephrologists that have a solid engineering background.