BIOTECHNOLOGY PREDOCTORAL TRAINING

该提案要求继续为西北大学(NU)的生物技术博士前培训计划提供资金。这一跨学科和跨部门的计划为来自三个参与单位的特定学生提供生物技术培训机会：生物医学(BME)和化学(CHE)工程系，以及跨部门生物科学(IBIS)计划。研究机会是从众多生命科学实验室中挑选出来的，与之相辅相成的是核心跨学科课程。为期三(3)至6个月的工业实习使学员接触到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提供了许多额外的培训机会，包括广泛的工业、法律和金融内容的课程，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。所有学员都参加IBIS，为期两天的校外年度静修，让来自多个学科的学生和教职员工进行广泛的互动。生物技术研究俱乐部的范围和频率将会扩大，是学员和教职员工向其他学生展示他们的研究成果并与其他学生互动的论坛。其他几个跨学科研究俱乐部为学员提供了更多与不同学科的学生和教职员工互动的机会。受训者组织和主办生物技术研讨会，这些研讨会将主要是工业科学家带到校园，与受训者举行研讨会和讨论。学生们还可以利用其他几个研讨会项目。负责任的研究行为的教学主要通过“生物研究中的伦理”课程进行；负责任的研究行为的教学主要通过“生物研究中的伦理”课程进行。项目和参与单位通过海报、宣传册和万维网网页招募学员。为招收代表性不足群体的学生作出了密集努力，并取得了相当大的成功。目前，更大比例的学员来自CHE，因为申请学生的人数较多。随着要求增加资助职位的数量，将从其他参与单位招聘更多的学生。目前的赠款建议用于六个职位，但为两至五个职位提供了经费。鉴于该方案所取得的成就，并为了执行拟议的改进，本提案需要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.