MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAM

资金要求支持六名博士前学生在他们的头两年参加杜克大学分子生物物理学（MBP）计划的培训。该计划由来自10个部门的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旨在帮助具有各种本科背景的学生将定量物理方法应用于生物过程的研究。该计划在招募具有不同背景的学生方面发挥着关键作用，包括物理，数学，化学和生物学，在杜克的生物科学部门和项目的联盟中工作。该计划的主要目标是为学员提供一个刺激的跨学科环境，学习现代结构生物学和生物物理学的工具，并支持他们的个人研究工作，因为他们将这些工具应用于重要的生物学问题。通过这种培训经验，学生准备在学术界和工业界的各种研究环境。

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.