BIOTECHNOLOGY PREDOCTORAL TRAINING

该提案要求继续资助西北大学（NU）的博士前生物技术培训计划。这个跨学科和跨部门的计划为来自三个参与单位的精选学生提供生物技术培训机会：生物医学（BME）和化学（ChE）工程部门以及跨部门生物科学（IBIS）计划。从生命科学的各种实验室中选择的研究机会，由核心跨学科课程补充。三（3）至6个月的工业实习使受训者接触现代生物技术的工业环境。实习安排由NU生物技术中心（NUCB）提供便利，该中心与工业生物技术社区有着密切的联系。NUCB提供许多额外的培训机会，包括具有广泛的工业，法律的和金融内容的课程，以及夏季生物技术研究所，所有这些都加强了该计划的工业组成部分。所有学员参加IBIS，为期两天，校外年度务虚会，这使得来自许多学科的学生和教师之间的广泛互动。生物技术研究俱乐部，其范围和频率将扩大，是学员和教师展示他们的研究成果，并与其他学生接口的论坛。其他几个跨学科研究俱乐部为学员提供了与来自不同学科的学生和教师互动的额外机会。学员组织和主持生物技术研讨会，主要是工业科学家到校园与学员进行研讨会和讨论。学生还利用其他几个研讨会计划。在负责任的研究行为的教学主要是通过课程进行我们的“生物研究伦理学”>在负责任的研究行为的教学主要是通过课程进行“生物研究伦理学”。方案和参与单位利用海报、小册子和万维网网页招募受训人员。为招收代表性不足群体的学生作出了大量努力，并取得了相当成功。由于学生申请者人数较多，目前来自ChE的受训人员比例较大。随着所要求的资助职位数目的增加，将从其他参与单位招聘更多的学生。目前的赠款建议用于6个职位，但有2至5个职位得到了资助。为了承认该方案的成就，并为了实施拟议的改进，本提案要求设立12个供资职位。

The proposal requests funding continuation for the Predoctoral Biotechnology Training Program at Northwestern University (NU). This interdisciplinary and interdepartmental Program offers biotechnology training opportunities for a select group of students from the three participating units: the departments of Biomedical (BME) and Chemical (ChE) Engineering, and the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) program. Research opportunities, chosen from among a wide array of laboratories in the life sciences, are complemented by core interdisciplinary courses. Three-(3) to 6-month industrial internships expose trainees to the industrial environment of modern biotechnology. Internship placements are facilitated by the NU Center for Biotechnology (NUCB), which has strong connections with the industrial biotechnology community. NUCB offers many additional training opportunities, including courses with extensive industrial, legal, and financial content, and the Summer Biotechnology Institute, all of which strengthen the Program's industrial component. All trainees participate in the IBiS, two-day, off-campus annual retreat, which allows extensive interactions among students and faculty from many disciplines. The Biotechnology research club, whose scope and frequency will be expanded, is the forum where trainees and faculty present their research results to and interface with other students. Several other interdisciplinary research clubs provide trainees additional opportunities to interact with students and faculty from various disciplines. Trainees organize and host biotechnology seminars which bring predominantly industrial scientists to campus for a seminar and discussion with trainees. Students also take advantage of several other seminar programs. Instruction in the responsible conduct of research is carried our primarily through the course "Ethics in Biological Research"> Instruction in the responsible conduct of research is carried out primary through the course "Ethics in Biological Research". Trainees are recruited by the Program and the participating units, using posters, brochures, and WWW pages. Intensive efforts are made to recruit students from under-represented groups, and have been quite successful. A larger fraction of trainees currently comes from ChE because of the larger student-applicant pool. With the requested increase in the number of funded positions, more students will be recruited from the other participating units. The present grant was recommended for six positions but two to five were funded. In recognition of the Program's achievements and in order to carry out the proposed improvements, this proposal requests twelve funded positions.