Graduate Training Program in Comparative Medicine

项目总结 要求为兽医学院的“比较医学研究生项目”提供持续支持 康奈尔大学医学院。需要6个博士后职位，为寻求 博士学位。比较医学课程结合了康奈尔大学以说教形式提供的最好的课程 研究生级别的指导、教师监督和培训相关活动。实习生可以遵循以下两种方法之一 轨道：一个面向基础研究的职业，一个面向翻译科学的职业。在每一种情况下， 培训的结构是为了确保学者向独立的有序发展。可用的研究领域 培训对象广泛，包括传染病、免疫学、流行病学、癌症生物学、细胞生物学。 和信号转导、基因组学和遗传学、发育生物学、分子医学和 神经科学。 拟议的计划将独立的、教员指导的研究与CELL中的正式教学相结合 以及分子生物学、基因组学、生物统计学、职业咨询和各种专业知识 旨在培养学员的关键能力、沟通能力和团队合作能力的活动。毕业生 学者将获得博士学位。兽医在康奈尔大学攻读博士学位的平均时间 大学是4.3年；然而，申请的资金是三年。头六到九个月的训练 支持将由兽医学院提供的研究生研究助学金提供 在康奈尔大学。预计学员将申请个人奖学金(“K”奖或同等奖项)， 在学员完成研究生学习并过渡到独立职业生涯时为他们提供支持。然而，所有的 挑选培训员的目的是确保培训支助不受任何研究金奖励的影响。 该项目的校友被鼓励在博士学位之外进行至少两年的研究 在接受他们最初的任命之前，最好是在相关学科和不同的机构工作 独立调查员。许多校友有望实现美国兽医教员的职业生涯 大学或医学院，尽管有些人可能会在独立机构寻求研究职位， 政府或行业。该项目的目标是培养符合国家要求的兽医科学家 在学术界、工业界、公共卫生和政府内部需要训练有素的兽医来解决问题 与动物和人类健康有关的。

PROJECT SUMMARY Ongoing support is requested for a “Graduate Program in Comparative Medicine” in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Six post-doctoral positions are requested to provide training to DVMs seeking a PhD. The Comparative Medicine Program combines the very best that Cornell offers in the form of didactic graduate-level instruction, faculty supervision and training related activities. Trainees can follow one of two tracks: one is geared to a career in basic research and one to a career in translational science. In each case, training is structured to ensure the orderly progression of scholars to independence. Research areas available to trainees are broad and include infectious disease, immunology, epidemiology, cancer biology, cell biology and signal transduction, genomics and genetics, developmental biology, molecular medicine, and neuroscience. The proposed program combines independent, faculty-guided research with formal didactic instruction in cell and molecular biology, genomics, and biostatistics, career counseling, and a variety of professional enrichment activities calculated to develop the trainees' critical capacity, communication and teamwork skills. Graduate scholars would earn the PhD degree. The average time to degree for veterinarians seeking a PhD at Cornell University is 4.3 years; however, funding is requested for three years. The first six to nine months of training support will be provided by Graduate Research Assistantships provided by the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. It is expected that trainees will apply for individual fellowships (“K” awards or equivalent) that would support the trainee as they finish their graduate studies and transition to independent careers. However, all trainers are selected with the goal of ensuring training support continues independent of any fellowship award. Program alumni are encouraged to undertake at least two years of research beyond their PhD degree preferably in a related discipline and at a different institution before accepting their initial appointment as an independent investigator. Many alumni are expected to realize careers as faculty members in U.S. veterinary colleges or medical schools, although some may seek research positions in independent institutions, government, or industry. The goal of the program is to train veterinary scientists that can meet the national need for trained veterinarians within academia, industry, public health, and government to address problems relating to animal and human health.