TRI-INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN VISION RESEARCH

康奈尔大学医学院、斯隆-凯特琳研究所和洛克菲勒大学这三个相邻机构的教师要求资金继续四年前开始的视力研究合作三机构培训计划。目前的TTPVR包括一套综合的博士生培训活动。博士后研究员和医学生。学院的优势和发展为研究视网膜细胞和发育生物学，遗传学，分泌和内吞作用，神经再生，发育和可塑性，信号转导以及眼睛和大脑水平的信息处理提供了机会。各种研究项目利用了大量的方法，如分子和细胞生物学，酵母和小鼠遗传学，基因转移和治疗，电生理学，成像，高分辨率光学显微镜，行为，建模和流行病学。汇集资源进行视力训练导致丰富的程序以上，可在个别机构，促进参与基础科学教师之间的合作，以及与临床教师，并提供了一个独特的机会，为新的视觉雇用或吸引现有的教师到视觉研究。项目教师和学生之间的互动通过视觉研讨会系列和视觉期刊俱乐部，年度ARVO海报会议，以及通过临床学术教师的课程，旨在使基础视觉科学家接触临床上看到的视觉障碍。这种接触提供了一个工具，为临床问题的更敏锐的理解和研究领域的选择，团结临床和基础科学家在寻求治愈结合疾病。美国国立卫生研究院支持拟议的视觉研究三机构培训计划的请求建立在参与机构致力于视觉研究的教师，基金和研究空间的主要承诺的基础上。

Faculty of three contiguous institutions, Cornell University Medical College, Sloan Kettering Institute, and the Rockefeller University, requests funds to continue a collaborative tri-institutional training program in vision research started four years ago. The current TTPVR consists of an integrated set of training activities for PhD students,. postdoctoral fellows and medical students. The strengths and diversities of the faculties provide opportunities for research in retinal cell and developmental biology, genetics, secretion and endocytosis, neural regeneration, development and plasticity, signal transduction, and information processing at the level of the eye and the brain. The various research projects utilize a vast array of methodologies, such as molecular and cell biology, yeast and mouse genetics, gene transfer and therapy, electrophysiology, imaging, high resolution optical microscopy, behavior, modelling, and epidemiology. The pooling of resources for vision training leads to an enrichment of programs over and above those available at the individual institutions, promotes collaborations between participating basic science faculty, as well as with clinical faculty, and provides a unique opportunity for the hiring of new Vision or attracting existing faculty into Vision Research. Interactions between Program Faculty and students takes place via a Vision seminar series and a Vision journal club, an annual post-ARVO poster session, as well as through a course by clinical-academic faculty designed to expose basic vision scientists to vision disorders seen in the clinic. This exposure provides a vehicle for a keener understanding of clinical problems and for the selection of research areas that unite clinical and basic scientists in the quest to cure binding diseases. The request for NIH support of a proposed Tri-Institutional Training Program in Vision Research builds on major commitments by the participating institutions of faculty, funds and research space devoted to vision research.