Predoctoral Training in the Neurobiology of Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议创建一个多学科的 衰老神经生物学博士前培训计划，解决 将博士生和博士/博士生培养成未来的研究人员 美国老龄化带来的迫切需求。该培训计划源于 来自最近成立的老龄化和阿尔茨海默氏症研究所 (IAADR)在北得克萨斯大学沃斯堡健康科学中心 (UNTHSC-FW)，其成立的目的是加强和集中研究、培训和 在可预防的脑老化方面的推广。在詹姆斯·W博士的指导下 辛普金斯，这个培训项目将招收优秀的博士和博士/博士。 对学生进行包括严格的现有教学课程在内的培训 以及新的培训活动，包括衰老神经生物学课程， 老年神经生物学系列研讨会，老年神经生物学杂志俱乐部， 一年一度的实习生研讨会。被提议的教官有很强的记录 培养本科生、研究生和博士后研究员，以及 都得到了充足的资金，并在衰老的神经生物学上发表了大量文章。培训 该计划将补充和加强本已出色的记录 在博士前培训机构，特别是在招聘 少数民族进入博士前培训。最后，我们将创建一个包含10个组件的 监督我们受训人员成功与否的计划和培训计划。 设想的方案是UNTHSC-FW整体努力的重要组成部分 加强研究和培训，了解该病的起因、治疗和预防 大脑老化及其引发的疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to create a multi-disciplinary pre-doctoral training program in the neurobiology of aging that addresses the training of Ph.D. and D.O./Ph.D. students as future researchers in an area of critical need due to the graying of America. The training program emanates from the recent creation of the Institute for Aging and Alzheimer's Research (IAADR) at the University of North Texas Health Science Center-Fort Worth (UNTHSC-FW), which was formed to enhance and focus research, training, and outreach in preventable brain aging. Under the direction of Dr. James W. Simpkins, this training program will recruit outstanding Ph.D. and D.O./Ph.D. students into training that includes a rigorous, existing didactic curriculum as well as new training activities, including a neurobiology of aging course, a neurobiology of aging seminar series, a neurobiology of aging journal club, and an annual Trainee Symposium. The proposed preceptors have a strong record of training undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and are well funded and well published in the neurobiology of aging. The training program will complement and enhance the already excellent record of the institution in pre-doctoral training, particularly in the recruitment of minorities into pre-doctoral training. Finally, we will create a 10-component program of monitoring the success of our trainees and the training program. The program envisioned is a vital part of an overall effort of the UNTHSC-FW to enhance research and training into the causes, treatments and prevention of brain aging and its consequential diseases.