Stanford Training Program in Aging Research

这是一个应用程序，以更新我们的T32斯坦福大学培训计划在老龄化研究（TPAR），培训 计划支持六个博士后研究员插槽，从事老龄化研究，并成为未来的领导者， 外地该计划于2014年启动，建立在令人兴奋的老龄化研究的显着增长基础上， 斯坦福大学。TPAR的建立不仅支持了现有的受训人员， 招募对老龄化研究感兴趣的最优秀、最聪明的学生和研究员的重点， 从而增加了斯坦福大学受训人员在老龄化领域工作的百分比。 沿着共同董事，TPAR由来自13个不同国家的23位导师组成。 部门和程序谁作为核心附属教师和其专业领域跨越一系列 衰老生物学的核心课题。我们已经概述了五个轨道（干细胞，遗传学，神经科学， 癌症和免疫学），重点是在这些特定的背景下老化，学员选择。TPAR旨在 提供了一个坚实的基础，培训老龄化跨子学科的正式教学法，老龄化前沿 研讨会系列，两年一度的老龄化研讨会，每周一次的培训生研究讲座计划，以及指定的 辅导计划。该计划的创新方面包括接触临床老年医学，正式 博士后指导，融入湾区老龄化会议（BAAM），并列入赠款写作 课程中的课程。每名受训人员的任用期最长为两年，但对于特殊情况， 案件可延长至三年。 在得到广泛的机构支持后，TPAR立即融入了已建立的基础设施 斯坦福大学的实习生教育。TPAR已经并将继续受益于 斯坦福大学项目在招募和留住来自不同领域的申请人方面的持续努力和成功 背景 该国人口正在老龄化，70岁以上的人口比例要高得多 比以往任何时候都多，而且受心脏等毁灭性衰老疾病影响的比例也越来越高 疾病、癌症和神经退行性疾病。TPAR的重点将是提供广泛的， 跨学科培训，协调整个校园的老龄化研究和培训活动，并 帮助传播基础和转化老化研究，为学员准备下一步， careers.在这样做的过程中，我们希望TPAR不仅为个别学员服务，而且也为老龄化领域服务 在整个社会和整个研究。

This is an application to renew our T32 Stanford Training Program in Aging Research (TPAR), a training program to support six postdoctoral fellow slots to pursue research in aging and to become future leaders in the field. This program, initiated in 2014, was built upon the remarkable growth of exciting aging research at Stanford. The establishment of TPAR has not only supported current trainees, but has also served as focal point for the recruitment of the best and brightest students and fellows with an interest in aging research, thereby increasing the percentage of Stanford trainees working in the aging field. Along with the Co-Directors, TPAR consists of an exceptional group of 23 preceptors from 13 different departments and programs who serve as the core affiliated faculty and whose areas of expertise span a range of central topics within the biology of aging. We have outlined five Tracks (stem cells, genetics, neuroscience, cancer, and immunology) that focus on aging in these specific contexts and that trainees select. TPAR aims to provide a solid foundation of training in aging across sub-disciplines by formal didactics, a Frontiers in Aging seminar series, a biennial Symposium on Aging, a weekly Trainee Research Talk program, and a designated mentoring program. Innovative aspects of the Program include an exposure to clinical geriatrics, formalized postdoctoral mentoring, integration into the Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM), and inclusion of a grant-writing course in the curriculum. Each trainee appointment will be for a maximum of two years, but for extraordinary cases may be extended to three years. Receiving broad institutional support, TPAR was immediately integrated into the established infrastructure of trainee education at Stanford University. TPAR has benefitted and will continue to benefit immensely from the continuing efforts and success of Stanford University programs to recruit and retain applicants from diverse background. The population of the country is aging, with a much higher percentage of individuals over 70 years of age than ever before and with an increasing percentage affected by devastating diseases of aging such as heart disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. The emphasis of TPAR will be to provide broad, interdisciplinary training, to coordinate aging research and training activities across the entire campus, and to help disseminate basic and translational aging research by preparing trainees for the next steps in their careers. In doing so, we expect that TPAR will serve not only the individual trainees but also the field of aging research in general and society at large.