BIOMETRIC-GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

该项目将在统计遗传分析和遗传流行病学领域提供博士前和博士后培训，并将其应用于心血管和肺部疾病的危险因素研究。在前15年仅提供博士后培训后，现拟将该计划扩大到提供博士前和博士后培训。博士前培训将针对流行病学和生物统计学的博士学位，预计将向博士/博士双重学位的博士生提供一些博士前津贴。博士后培训可能包括流行病学和生物统计学硕士学位的培训。然而，培养博士后最重要的模式将是与教师进行合作研究——方法论研究（使用计算机模拟的数学推导）和/或通过数据分析进行实质性研究，使用计算机；在后一种情况下，将与应用领域的成熟研究工作者进行强有力的互动。所有学员将定期参加研讨会和某些讲座和/或阅读课程。该项目的一个特点是邀请国际知名的生物统计学家/遗传学家/遗传流行病学家来访，为期几天到一周，在他们的专业领域举办研讨会和短期课程，并与学员讨论他们的研究项目。

This program will provide predoctoral and postdoctoral training specifically in the areas of statistical genetic analysis and genetic epidemiology, with applications to the study of risk factors for cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. After providing only postdoctoral training for the first fifteen years, it is now proposed to expand the program to provide both predoctoral and postdoctoral training. Predoctoral training will be for the Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and its is anticipated that some predoctoral stipends will be given to dual MD/PhD candidates while they are PhD students. Postdoctoral training may include training for the M.S. degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. However, the most important mode of training for postdoctoral students will be that of conducting collaborative research with faculty-methodological research (using mathematical derivations of computer simulations) and/or substantive research by means of data analysis, using a computer; in the latter case, there will be strong interaction with established research workers in the areas of application. All trainees will attend regularly scheduled seminars and certain lecture and/or reading courses. A particular feature of the program will be the presence of internationally known biostatisticians/geneticists/genetic epidemiologists as visitors, for periods of a few days to a week, giving seminars and short courses in their particular fields of specialty and talking to the trainees about their research projects.