MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAM

要求提供资金，以支持6名博士前学生在参加杜克大学分子生物物理学项目(MBP)的头两年期间的培训。该项目由来自10个系的25名教师组成，包括生物化学、生物医学工程、细胞生物学、电气和计算机工程、机械工程和材料科学、神经生物学和药理学。MBP旨在为具有不同本科生背景的学生准备将定量物理方法应用于生物过程研究。该项目在招收包括物理、数学、化学和生物在内的不同背景的学生在杜克大学生物科学系和项目的联盟中工作方面发挥了关键作用。该计划的主要目标是为学员提供一个激励的跨学科环境，在其中学习现代结构生物学和生物物理学的工具，并在他们将这些工具应用于重要的生物学问题时支持他们的个人研究努力。通过这次培训经历，学生们为学术界和工业界的各种研究环境做好了准备。

Funds are requested to support the training of six predoctoral students during their first two years of participation in the Duke University Program in Molecular Biophysics (MBP). The Program consists of 25 faculty from 10 departments, including Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Neurobiology and Pharmacology. The MBP is designed to prepare students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds to apply quantitative physical methods to the study of biological processes. The program plays a pivotal role in recruiting students with diverse backgrounds including physics, math, chemistry and biology to work in the consortium of Biological Sciences departments and programs at Duke. The primary goal of the program is to provide trainees with a stimulating interdisciplinary environment in which to learn the tools of modern structural biology and biophysics and to support their individual research efforts as they apply these tools to important biological problems. Through this training experience, students are prepared for a variety of research settings in academia and industry.