Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Disease

心血管疾病跨学科培训计划为5名学生提供跨学科培训 博士后和博士后5人。本课程强调血管方面的研究训练。 生物学/百日咳、炎症、输血医学、心脏细胞生物学和心血管基因组学 疾病以及包括生物信息学、干细胞生物学和生物工程在内的使能技术。这个 我们的培训计划的目标有两个：为博士生提供出色的研究培训和 通过接触心血管医学的临床和翻译主题，他们在上下文中的研究工作， 而对于MD实习生，则要与其领域前沿的基础研究人员保持一致，并采用最新的 最先进的技术，帮助培养能够从事竞争激烈的职业的内科科学家 临床科学家。我们的29名教职员工来自14个基础科学和临床 位于医学院和药学学院内的部门/有组织的研究中心/研究所 位于巴尔的摩的马里兰大学和位于学院公园的马里兰大学工程学院。 博士后研究员包括博士和医学博士实习生，来自所有参与部门/组织 研究中心/研究所。博士前实习生是从我们的跨部门伞式研究生中挑选出来的 医学院生命科学课程，以及药学毕业生 药学院和费舍尔工程学院生物工程系的课程。 重点是征聘和保留任职人数偏低的群体，并将 培训学院的多样性。我们培训的主要教学方面包括三个为期一学期的 关于血管和干细胞生物学以及心脏细胞生理学的跨学科课程，由团队授课 由项目教员和我们的受训人员欢迎，以及一门最先进的实验室方法课程 向学员介绍成像技术、表面等离子体共振、生物信息学、蛋白质组学、Flow 细胞学、结构生物学和基因组学。每月举行的“正在进行的研究”研讨会系列由 受训者，并得到培训计划教职员工和其他关键研究人员的支持，这提供了一个机会 用于学员和培训教师之间的互动，并确保培训过程的严谨性。一项额外的 教学组件是专门为医学博士实习生开发的，预先接触实验室的程度最低 研究，为他们成为成功的内科科学家奠定了基础。博士生被曝光 通过一个新颖的“通往生物技术的桥梁”计划抓住生物技术行业的机会 与当地的生物技术公司合作。该项目的所有学员都具备多学科和国家- 研究心血管疾病基本问题的最先进的方法，并由 经验丰富和敬业的教职员工，让他们在生物技术行业或作为科学家取得成功 学者。

The Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Disease provides interdisciplinary training for 5 predoctoral and 5 postdoctoral PhD or MD fellows. This program emphasizes research training in vascular biology/thombosis, inflammation, transfusion medicine, cardiac cell biology and genomics of cardiovascular disease along with enabling technologies that include bioinformatics, stem cell biology and bioengineering. The goals of our training program are twofold: to provide PhD trainees with outstanding research training and to place their investigative work in context by exposure to clinical and translational topics in cardiovascular medicine, while for MD trainees, to align then with basic researchers at the forefront of their field and employing state-of- the-art technology to assist in developing physician scientists capable of pursuing competitive careers as clinician scientists. Our 29 faculty members are derived from 14 basic science and clinical Departments/Organized Research Centers/Institutes located within the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Postdoctoral fellows include PhD and MD trainees and are derived from all participating Departments/Organized Research Centers/Institutes. Pre-doctoral trainees are drawn from our interdepartmental umbrella Graduate Program in Life Sciences in the School of Medicine, as well as from the Pharmaceutical Science graduate program in the School of Pharmacy and the Fischell Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering. Emphasis is placed on the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups and the incorporation of diversity in the Training Faculty. The major didactic aspect of our training involve three one-semester interdisciplinary courses on vascular and stem-cell biology and cardiac cell physiology, which are team-taught by the program faculty and well-received by our trainees as well as a state-of-the-art laboratory method course to introduce trainees to imaging technologies, surface plasmon resonance, bioinformatics, proteomics, flow cytometry, structural biology and genomics. A monthly “Research In-Progress” seminar series is presented by trainees and supported by the training program faculty and other key researchers which provides an opportunity for interaction amongst trainees and training faculty and ensures rigor in the training process. An additional didactic component has been developed specifically for MD trainees with minimal prior exposure to laboratory research, setting the groundwork for them to become successful physician scientists. PhD trainees are exposed to opportunities in the Biotech industry through a novel “Bridges To Biotech” program that interfaces trainees with local Biotech companies. All trainees from this program are well equipped with multidisciplinary and state- of-the-art approaches to investigate fundamental problems in Cardiovascular disease and are mentored by experienced and dedicated faculty to allow them to succeed, whether in the Biotech industry or as scientists in academics.