EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging

这一应用程序将两所世界知名的以研究和教育为重点的大学聚集在一起，以独特的合作方式创建一种跨学科培训方法，以应对医疗保健领域的挑战。凭借在基础物理科学、工程和临床翻译方面的优势互补、密切的战略和地理联系以及一家一流教学医院内的CDT，KCL/ICL联盟处于培养下一代成像科学家和研究领导者的绝佳位置。CDT将提供独特的跨学科培训计划，通过整合物理科学、工程以及生物和临床学科来开发创新技术解决方案的技能。该中心将被整合到由EPSRC/Wellcome Trust医学工程中心、MRC中心、CRUK/EPSRC癌症成像中心和BHF卓越中心资助的大型医学成像研究组合中。为了促进研究的临床转化，CDT将被连接到两个学术健康科学中心和NIHR-生物医学研究中心。CDT将建立一个关键的教师和研究人员群体，通过将不同学科的学生聚集在一起从事医学成像方面的研究课题来建立一个跨学科的培训计划。CDT将采用1+3年制的MRE+博士学位结构，并将把学生作为一个单独的群体进行管理。我们开发了博士项目的不同阶段，即招聘、MRE、博士和校友，以实现个别学生在培训、研究和职业发展方面的最高质量。我们非常重视临床翻译，因此CDT将在博士项目的同时继续进行临床应用方面的正式培训计划。此外，该中心的教学地点设在世界级教学医院内新装修的专用CDT教学中心，与NHS建立了牢固的联系，并为临床翻译提供了进一步加强的机会。CDT的首要目标是为每个学生提供最高质量的监督。为了实现这一目标，我们将把高级主管的经验与更多初级学者的精力和发展结合起来。在CDT开始时，我们将定义来自60名导师的博士项目，这些导师在支持医学成像的多学科主题方面拥有世界领先的研究专业知识。所有这些科学家都有博士指导和研究委员会资助的研究的记录。我们还确定了三个主要疾病领域(心脏病学、肿瘤学、神经学)的临床冠军，他们将组织临床应用方面的培训。这项培训旨在促进科学家和临床医生之间的互动。它将为学生提供宝贵的联系，他们可以与他们讨论他们的博士研究的临床意义。CDT将提供新一代科学家的培训，他们拥有跨学科研究、临床翻译和创业的技能。研究生培训和个人学生研究项目的重点都将是在一系列疾病的患者的护理周期中创新医学成像技术。该计划的另一个中心主题将是将创新转化为商业产品的培训。为此，我们将利用我们强大的产业联系，并已从不同的产业合作伙伴那里获得了超过25个共同资助的产业CDT学生的资金承诺。合作伙伴，包括新的英国中小企业和初创公司，还将提供实习机会，使其能够进入行业。

This application brings together two world-renowned research- and educational-focused Universities in a unique collaboration to create an interdisciplinary training approach to meet challenges in healthcare. With complementary strengths in basic physical sciences, engineering and clinical translation, close strategic and geographical links and a CDT embedded within a top-rated teaching hospital, the KCL/ICL alliance is superbly placed to train the next generation of imaging scientists and research leaders.The CDT will provide a unique interdisciplinary training program to develop the skills for creating innovative technical solutions through integration of the physical sciences, engineering and biological and clinical disciplines. The Centre will be integrated into a large research portfolio in medical imaging funded through EPSRC/Wellcome Trust Medical Engineering Centres, MRC centres, the CRUK/EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centres, and the BHF Centres of Excellence. In order to foster clinical translation of research, the CDT will be linked into two Academic Health Science Centres and NIHR-Biomedical Research Centres.The CDT will create a critical mass of teachers and researchers to establish an interdisciplinary training program by bringing together students from different disciplines to work on research topics in medical imaging. The CDT will feature a 1 + 3 years MRes+PhD structure and will manage the students as a single cohort. We have developed the different phases of the PhD programme, i.e. Recruitment, MRes, PhD and Alumni, to achieve the highest quality in training, research and career development for the individual student. We place a strong emphasis on clinical translation, therefore the CDT will continue with a formal training programme in clinical applications in parallel to the PhD projects. In addition, the teaching location of the Centre in a dedicated, newly-refurbished CDT teaching hub within a world-class teaching hospital engenders strong links with the NHS and provides further enhanced opportunities for clinical translation. The first and foremost goal of this CDT will be to provide the highest quality supervision for individual students. To achieve this, we will combine the experience of senior supervisors with the energy and development of more junior academics. At the start of the CDT, we will be defining PhD projects from 60 supervisors with world-leading research expertise in the underpinning of the multidisciplinary themes in medical imaging. All of those scientists have a track record in PhD supervision and delivering research funded by research councils.We have also identified clinical champions in three major disease areas (Cardiology, Oncology, Neuro) who will organize training in clinical application. This training is designed to forge interactions between scientists and clinicians. It will provide students with valuable contacts with whom they can discuss clinical implications of their PhD research.The CDT will provide training of a new generation of scientists with skills in interdisciplinary research, clinical translation and entrepreneurship. The focus of both graduate training and the individual student research projects will be to innovate medical imaging technologies in the care cycle of patients across a range of diseases. Another central theme within the program will be training to translate innovations into commercial products. For this, we will leverage our strong industrial links and have obtained financial commitment for more than 25 co-funded industrial CDT studentships from various industrial partners. The partners, including new UK-based SMEs and start-up companies, will also provide internships to enable career paths into industry.