TRAINING IN METABOLIC AND FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE

这项拨款提案涉及磁共振（MR）技术及其在生物医学研究中的应用领域的培训计划。核磁共振方法继续对生物医学研究的各个领域产生巨大影响，从核磁共振成像（MRI）到认知功能研究，再到核磁共振光谱（MRS）和分子结构。充分利用这些新兴技术需要对学术临床医生和基础科学家进行相应的培训，他们既可以推进这些技术，又可以将这些技术应用于重要的临床和研究问题。这项拨款提案的总体目标是在基础和临床磁共振研究的基础上，为博士前和博士后水平的学术临床医生和基础科学家提供相应的培训，同时给予两个学科平等的代表。这将通过以下方式实现：(i)使用双导师计划：一名基础科学导师和另一名临床科学导师，（ii）通过严格的招聘政策招募高素质的学员，（iii）保留世界一流的培训师资队伍，他们在各自的研究领域是领先的权威，（iv）在导师、学员和项目主任之间提供持续的互动，(v)确保获得最先进的研究设施和生物医学研究前沿的研究机会。上述目标的实现为所有受训者提供了成为独立科学家或学术临床医生的必要培训，使他们能够追求自己的独立职业并成功地竞争外部资金。

This grant proposal deals with a training program in the area encompassing magnetic resonance (MR) technology and its applications in biomedical research. MR methods continue to make an enormous impact of various areas of biomedical research ranging from MR imaging (MRI) to functional studies of cognition to MR spectroscopy (MRS) and molecular structure. Exploiting these emerging technologies to their fullest extent requires the concomitant training of academic clinicians and basic scientists who can both advance these technologies and apply them to important clinical and research problems. The overall objective of this grant proposal is to provide concomitant training to academical clinicians and basic scientists at predoctoral and postdoctoral levels in the fundamentals of both basic and clinical MR research while giving equal representations to both disciplines. This will be accomplished by: (i) using of a dual mentor program: one preceptor in basic science and the other in clinical science, (ii) recruiting highly qualified trainees through a stringent recruiting policy, (iii) retaining a world class training faculty who are leading authorities in their research areas, (iv) providing constant interaction between the preceptors, the trainees, and the Program Director, and (v) ensuring access to state of the art research facilities and research opportunities at the frontiers of biomedical research. Accomplishment of the above goals provides all trainees with the necessary training to become independent scientists or academic clinicians and to enable them to pursue their independent careers and successfully compete for extramural funding.