Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program

项目摘要 从NEI的2012年战略计划“愿景研究：需求，差距和机会”中可以清楚地看到， 视觉研究涵盖了生物科学、认知科学和临床领域的每一门学科。 视觉科学家意识到跨学科方法在他们的研究中的重要性， 需要将基础研究的发现迅速转化为临床护理。因此，下一代 视觉科学家将需要在一个强调尖端技术的环境中发展他们的科学技能 科学，跨学科合作，对视觉系统的理解，并接触临床 眼科跨学科视觉科学（IVS）培训计划的重点是创建一个培训 环境，将有利于视觉科学家之间的互动和合作，这涉及博士前 学生和博士后研究员在跨学科的方法来理解视觉系统， 眼科疾病，并提供周到和有针对性的专业发展活动，以确保 受训人员获得必要的职业技能，使他们能够在长期的研究生涯中取得成功。 虽然这个T32应用程序的重点是基础科学家的培训，我们的学员将有频繁的互动 与临床眼科医生一起，参加我们题为“视觉生物学”的视觉教学课程的讲师， 通过课程作业、研讨会和数据俱乐部与医生科学家进行密切互动。我们的T32 培训计划吸引了来自几个共享研究生课程的研究生在大学的 匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学，为受训人员提供结构和基本课程。的 IVS T32计划建立在这个坚实的基础上，提供视觉研究相结合的专业培训， 专业发展活动和频繁的团队指导。IVS T32计划还提供 视觉研究博士后研究员的培训结构，将与重大支持协调 匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学已经建立了这种结构。最后，IVS T32 该计划为Preceptors提供导师培训，这是生物医学科学研究中的一个新兴主题， 为学员在研究生涯中的长期保留和成功。IVS T32计划将努力 吸引最聪明的学生和博士后与以下总体目标1）提供跨学科， 视觉科学研究及其负责任和道德行为的前沿培训; 2）提供 周到的，职业特定的专业发展机会，以增加他们在愿景中的保留 科学，以及更广泛的生物医学劳动力;和3）加强互动，合作 以及匹兹堡大学学员和教师的视觉研究的整体质量， 卡内基梅隆大学

PROJECT SUMMARY It clearly emerges from NEI's 2012 strategic plan “Vision Research: Needs, Gaps and Opportunities” that vision research embraces every discipline in the biological sciences, cognitive sciences, and clinical realms. Vision scientists are aware of the critical importance of interdisciplinary approaches in their research, and of the need for rapid translation of findings in basic research to clinical care. Accordingly, the next generation of vision scientists will need to develop their scientific skills within an environment that stresses cutting edge science, interdisciplinary cooperation, an understanding of the visual system, and exposure to clinical ophthalmology. The Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program is focused on creating a training environment that will favor interactions and collaborations among vision scientists, that involves predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the visual system and ocular diseases, and that provides thoughtful and targeted professional development activities to ensure trainees receive necessary career skills that enable them to be successful in long-term research careers. Although this T32 application focuses on training of basic scientists, our trainees will have frequent interactions with clinical ophthalmologists, attend lecturers in our didactic vision course entitled “Biology of Vision”, and have close interactions with physician-scientists through course work, seminars, and data clubs. Our T32 training program draws graduate students from several shared graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, which provide the structure and basic curriculum for trainees. The IVS T32 Program builds on this strong foundation by providing specialized training in vision research combined with professional development activities and frequent team mentoring. The IVS T32 Program also provides a structure for training of postdoctoral fellows in vision research that will coordinate with the significant support structure already in place at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Finally, the IVS T32 Program provides mentor training for Preceptors, an emerging theme in biomedical science research as critical for the long-term retention and success of trainees in research careers. The IVS T32 program will strive to attract the brightest students and postdocs with the following overarching goals 1) to provide interdisciplinary, cutting-edge training in vision science research and its responsible and ethical conduct; 2) to provide thoughtful, career-specific professional development opportunities to increase their retention in the vision sciences, as well as more broadly in the biomedical workforce; and 3) to enhance interactions, collaborations and the overall quality of vision research among trainees and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University