Visual Sciences Training Program (VSTP)

项目总结 加州大学欧文分校视力科学培训计划(VSTP)是专门为培养博士和医学博士/博士而设计的 将推进对人类视觉的病因、诊断、进展和治疗的研究的候选人 减损。这个多学科、跨部门的培训计划的目标是：(I)提供高水平的 与视觉研究相关的基础科学学科的高质量研究培训和(Ii)提供 跨学科合作和翻译研究的机会，使我们的学员能够熟练地 在互动的研究环境中发挥作用，并从他们的基本发现中得出临床相关性。一种力量 我们计划的一个特点是，所有学员都将接受特定学科的指导，即部门指导 和专题，即在围绕VSTP的四个广泛的视觉科学领域内和跨这些领域；(A)前面 节段和眼表，(B)代谢和视觉处理，(C)视网膜和视网膜疾病，和(D)晶状体。 通过我们计划的渐进式设计，学员将首先参加教学培训，建立起强大的 在细胞和分子生物学的基础上，然后是生物化学和 眼睛和视觉处理的所有主要组成部分的分子生物学。然后他们将获得先进的 通过组织的高级课程和论文研究，了解某一专业领域 根据上述四个研究主题。VSTP利用加州大学欧文分校强大的视觉科学 社区，汇聚了一批杰出的临床医生和科学家，他们在 愿景研究和指导。通过利用这些优势，VSTP独一无二地准备好产生愿景 能够创造性地应用当代研究方法来理解 视力和眼科。

PROJECT SUMMARY The UC Irvine Vision Science Training Program (VSTP) is specifically designed to train PhD and MD/PhD candidates who will advance research on the causes, diagnosis, progression and treatment of human visual impairments. The goals of this multidisciplinary, inter-departmental training program are to (i) provide high quality research training in basic sciences disciplines that are relevant to vision research and (ii) provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative and translational research so that our trainees can skillfully function in an interactive research environment and draw clinical correlates from their basic findings. A strength of our program will be that all trainees will receive mentoring that is both discipline-specific, i.e. departmental and thematic, i.e. within and across four broad visual sciences areas that encompass the VSTP; (a) Anterior segment and ocular surface, (b) Metabolism & visual processing, (c) Retina and retinal diseases, and (d) Lens. Through our program’s progressive design, trainees will first participate in didactic training to establish a strong foundation in cell and molecular biology, followed by additional didactic training in the biochemistry and molecular biology of all major components of the eye and visual processing. They will then acquire advanced understanding in an area of specialization via advanced courses and thesis research, which are organized according to the four research themes described above. The VSTP leverages UC Irvine’s robust vision science community, bringing together an outstanding group of clinicians and scientists with strong track records of vision research and mentoring. By leveraging these strengths, the VSTP is uniquely poised to produce vision scientists that can creatively apply contemporary research approaches toward understanding problems in vision and ophthalmology.