Training Program in Clinical Neuroengineering(RMI)

描述(由申请人提供)： 临床神经工程培训计划(CNTP)将培训个人使用工程学-神经科学接口的跨学科方法来解决临床研究问题。我们对临床神经工程的定义非常广泛，包括以下方面的临床和应用：神经接口、神经电子学、神经机械系统、神经信息学、神经成像、神经假体、神经功能和表现、神经控制、神经组织再生、神经信号处理、神经建模和神经计算。CNTP将是一个跨学科的项目，它建立在现有5所学院优秀的基础上，同时为学员提供一套共同的跨学科体验。 CNTP实习生将以生物学或工程学背景进入该项目，并必须满足威斯康星大学现有博士项目的要求。这些研究生课程将提供受训人员成为各自领域未来领导者所需的卓越学科能力。受训者将对由该项目的一名教师培训师赞助的项目进行博士研究，并要求论文委员会至少有一名来自组成该项目的广泛学科领域的教师：神经科学、工程学/物理科学和临床实践。这一过程将确保受训者拥有真正的跨学科研究经验，对不止一个学科有广泛的接触。一组常见的跨学科经验将使CNTP学员区别于他们的同龄人；这些经验将包括面向临床神经工程的辅修课程计划，参加CNTP学生研讨会计划。这项培训将纳入适当的临床暴露，使他们能够开发尖端工程技术，并将其与现实世界临床应用中的领先神经科学发现相结合。学生将获得各种临床、基础神经生物学和工程实验室的实践经验。临床经验将包括目前对帕金森氏症、肌萎缩侧索硬化症、脊髓损伤、阿尔茨海默氏症、癫痫和周围神经损伤等疾病的治疗。CNTP实习生的共同经验将确保所有实习生，无论他们的专业博士课程，将熟悉神经科学和工程原理，以及作为21世纪跨学科科学家和工程师所需的临床问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program (CNTP) will train individuals to use inter-disciplinary approaches from the engineering-neuroscience interface to solve clinical research problems. We define clinical neuroengineering very broadly to encompass clinical and applied aspects of: neural interfacing, neuroelectronics, neuromechanical systems, neuroinformatics, neuroimaging, neuronal prosthetics, neural functions and performance, neural control, neural tissue regeneration, neural signal processing, neural modeling and neurocomputation. The CNTP will be a interdisciplinary program that builds on existing excellence across 5 colleges while providing trainees a common set of cross-disciplinary experiences. CNTP trainees will enter the program with biology or engineering backgrounds and must fulfill the requirements of an existing Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin. These graduate programs will provide the disciplinary excellence that trainees need to become future leaders in their respective fields. The trainee will conduct his/her PhD research on a project sponsored by a faculty trainer from the program with the additional requirement that the thesis committee have at least one faculty member from each of the broad subject areas that makeup the program: neuroscience, engineering/physical science and clinical practice. This process will ensure that the trainees will have a truly interdisciplinary research experience with broad exposure to more than one discipline. A common set of cross-disciplinary experiences will distinguish CNTP trainees from their peers; these will include a clinical neuroengineering-oriented minor course program, participation in a CNTP student seminar program. This training will incorporate appropriate clinical exposure and allow them to develop cutting edge engineering technology and incorporate it with leading neuroscience discoveries in real world clinical applications. Students will receive hands-on experience in a variety of clinical, basic neurobiology, and engineering labs. The clinical experiences will include current medical treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's, ALS, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, and peripheral nerve injury. The common experiences of CNTP trainees will ensure that all trainees, regardless of their major Ph.D. program, will be conversant in the neuroscience and engineering principles and clinical questions required to function as cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers in the 21st Century.