Biometric-Genetic Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease

描述(由申请人提供)： 该计划将提供专门在统计遗传分析和遗传流行病学领域的博士后和博士后培训，并应用于心血管和肺部疾病风险因素的研究。在最初17年只提供博士后培训之后，该方案于2000年扩大到同时提供博士后和博士后培训，并将继续提供这两种培训。博士前培训将通过遗传和分子流行病学分部进行流行病学和生物统计学博士学位的培训。对博士后学生最重要的培训方式将是与教师开展合作研究：方法论研究(使用数学推导或计算机模拟)和/或利用计算机进行数据分析的实质性研究；在后一种情况下，将在应用领域与现有的研究工作者进行强有力的互动。所有受训人员都将参加定期安排的研讨会和某些讲座和/或阅读课程，包括生物伦理学的必修课。该计划的一个特殊特点是将出现国际知名的 生物统计学家/遗传学家/遗传流行病学家作为访客，为期几天至一周，在其特定的专业领域举办研讨会和短期课程，并与受训者谈论他们的研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program will provide predoctoral and postdoctoral training specifically in the areas of statistical genetic analysis and genetic epidemiology, with applications to the study of risk factors for cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. After providing only postdoctoral training for the first seventeen years, the program was expanded in 2000 to provide both predoctoral and postdoctoral training and will continue to provide both types of training. Predoctoral training will be for the Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics through the Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology. The most important mode of training for postdoctoral students will be that of conducting collaborative research with faculty: methodological research (using mathematical derivations or computer simulations) and/or substantive research by means of data analysis, using a computer; in the latter case, there will be strong interaction with established research workers in the areas of application. All trainees will attend regularly scheduled seminars and certain lecture and/or reading courses, including mandatory lectures in bioethics. A particular feature of the program will be the presence of intemationally known biostatisticians/geneticists/genetic epidemiologists as visitors, for periods of a few days to a week, giving seminars and short courses in their particular fields of specialty and talking to the trainees about their research projects.