BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的生物技术培训计划(BTP)旨在培训一批新的研究人员，他们使用生物-物理-计算科学接口的跨学科方法来解决生物医学问题。BTP是一个多维度的项目，它建立在5所学院现有学科优势的基础上，同时为学员提供一套共同的跨学科体验。BTP实习生被细菌学、生物化学、生物分子化学、化学、化学工程和药学等领先的博士课程录取并满足这些要求。这些核心研究生课程丰富的卓越历史使BTP学员为成为各自领域的未来领导者做好了准备。BTP学员区别于同龄人的常见跨学科经历，包括面向生物技术的辅修课程计划、与来自其他学科的BTP辅修教授的定期互动、参加生物技术学生研讨会计划和工业实习。这些共同的经验确保了BTP实习生将熟悉分子生物学、遗传学、生物化学/生理学原理，这些原理将是21世纪发挥跨学科科学家和工程师作用所必需的。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校是美国最大的BTP项目的赞助商，拥有33名由NIH资助的学员。在其9年的历史中，BTP培养了109名博士生，他们与68名不同的教职员工在20个博士项目中合作。随着学生对BTP的兴趣持续增长，学员参与所有BTP活动的机会日益受到限制。因此，我们要求在未来3年每年增加3个NIH资助的职位，因此总共将有42名BTP学员处于稳定状态。增加NIH的支持将允许更多的高质量学生参与BTP活动，并扩大校园内跨学科互动的广度。生物医学研究界学生和教职员工之间互动的扩大将提高BTP学员利用最新技术进步并解决生物-物理-计算科学界面上新出现的问题的能力。

The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at the University of Wisconsin- Madison seeks to train a new cadre of researchers who use cross- disciplinary approaches from the biological-physical-computational science interface to solve biomedical problems. The BTP is a multi- dimensional program that builds on existing disciplinary excellence across 5 colleges while providing trainees a common set of cross- disciplinary experiences. BTP trainees are admitted to and fulfill the requirements of leading Ph.D. programs such as Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Pharmacy. The rich history of excellence within these core graduate programs prepares BTP trainees to become future leaders in their respective fields. The common set of cross-disciplinary experiences that distinguished BTP trainees from their peers including a biotechnology oriented minor course program, regular interactions with a BTP minor professor from another discipline, participation in a biotechnology student seminar program, and an industrial internship. These common experiences ensure that BTP trainees will be conversant in the molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry/physiology principles that will be required to function as cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers in the 21st century. UW-Madison is the proud sponsor of the largest BTP in the country, with 33 NIH-funded trainees. In its 9 year history, the BTP has trained 109 Ph.D. students who worked with 68 different faculty in 20 Ph.D. programs. As student interest in the BTP has continued to grow, the opportunities for trainees to partake of all BTP activities is increasingly constrained. Consequently, we are requesting 3 more NIH- funded positions in each of the next 3 years so there will be a total of 42 BTP trainees at steady-state. Increased NIH support will permit more high-quality students to partake of BTP activities and expand the breadth of cross-disciplinary interactions across campus. This expansion of interactions among students and faculty in the biomedical research community will increase the ability of BTP trainees to capitalize on recent technological advances and solve emerging problems at the biological-physical-computational science interface.