TRAINING PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY

环境因素在人类疾病的病因中起着重要作用。因此，这种疾病是可以预防的，因为这些因素可以被确定并从环境中消除或抵消。认识到这种可能性，就需要加紧努力，查明因果因素，阐明其作用机制，并制订适当措施，阻止或扭转其影响。该计划的目的是提供培训，为科学家在环境毒理学方面积极和富有成效的职业做好准备，重点是呼吸，分子和遗传毒理学。其目的是使受训者准备计划、进行和解释适合于所讨论的具体科学问题的毒理学研究。范围很广，例如，可以向受训者提供背景，使他们能够审查与环境有关的疾病的机制，并改进评估生物反应的技术和方法。该计划提供4个博士预科和2个博士后（博士）职位。

Environmental factors play a significant role in the causation of human disease. Thus, such disease is preventable to the extent that such factors can be identified and either removed from the environment or counteracted. Recognition of this possibility requires intensified efforts to identify the causal factors, to elucidate their mechanisms of action and to formulate appropriate measures for blocking or reversing their effects. The purpose of this Program is to provide training to prepare scientists for active and productive careers in environmental toxicology, with emphases on respiratory, molecular and genetic toxicology. The objective is to prepare the trainees to plan, conduct and interpret toxicological studies which are appropriate to specific scientific issues in question. The scope is broad, and trainees may, for example, by provided with backgrounds enabling them to examine mechanisms of environmentally-related disease as well as to improve technology and methods of assessing biological responses. The Program provides for four predoctoral and two postdoctoral (Ph.D.) positions.