Biotechnology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的生物技术培训计划（BTP）旨在培养一批研究人员，他们使用生物物理科学接口的跨学科方法来解决生物医学研究问题。BTP是一个多维度的计划，建立在5所学院现有的学科卓越的基础上，同时为学员提供一套共同的跨学科经验。BTP学员被录取并满足5个核心博士学位之一的要求。课程（生物化学，生物分子化学，化学，化学工程和微生物学）或校园内许多其他优秀课程。这些研究生课程提供了优秀的学科，学员需要成为各自领域的未来领导者。一套共同的跨学科经验将BTP学员与同龄人区分开来;这些包括以生物技术为导向的未成年人课程计划，与来自另一学科的BTP未成年人教授定期互动，参加生物技术学生研讨会计划以及工业实习。这些共同的经验确保所有的BTP学员，无论他们的主要博士学位。计划，将在分子生物学，遗传学，生物化学和生理学所需的功能，作为跨学科的科学家和工程师在21世纪世纪的原则精通。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校很自豪能与美国国立卫生研究院合作，赞助该国最大的BTP，有33名NIGMS资助的学员。在14年的历史中，BTP培养了174名博士。学生们在20个博士学位中与94个不同的教师合作。程序.随着学生对BTP的兴趣不断增长，学员参与所有BTP活动的机会越来越有限。因此，我们要求在未来两年中每年增加3个NIH资助的职位，因此稳定状态下总共将有39名BTP学员。增加NIH的支持将允许更多的高质量的学生参加BTP活动，扩大跨学科的跨校园互动的广度，并增加学员利用最新技术进步的机会，以解决生物物理科学界面出现的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to train a cadre of researchers who use cross-disciplinary approaches from the biological-physical science interface to solve biomedical research 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 either one of the 5 core Ph.D. programs (Biochemistry, Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Microbiology) or those of many other outstanding programs on campus. These graduate programs provide the disciplinary excellence that trainees need to become future leaders in their respective fields. A common set of crossdisciplinary experiences distinguishes BTP trainees from their peers; these include 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 all BTP trainees, regardless of their major Ph. D. program, will be conversant in the molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry and physiology principles required to function as cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers in the 21st Century. UW-Madison is proud to partner with NIH in sponsoring the largest BTP in the country, with 33 NIGMS funded trainees. In its 14 year history, the BTP has trained 174 Ph.D. students who worked with 94 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 2 years, so there will be a total of 39 BTP trainees at steady-state. Increased NIH support will permit more high-quality students to partake of BTP activities, expand the breadth of cross-disciplinary interactions across campus, and increase opportunities for trainees to capitalize on recent technological advances in order to solve emerging problems at the biological-physical science interface.