Training Program in Oxidative Stress and Nutrition

描述(由申请人提供)： 不良的饮食习惯在美国十大死亡原因中有五个起到了致病作用。尽管长期以来一直存在令人信服的论点，但医学院的营养教育仍然不足。这是“氧化应激和营养”领域的一项培训计划的竞争性更新。从学生资格、荣誉和奖励以及生产率来看，在上一次资助期间取得了很好的进展。营养科学的四个重点领域构成了竞争更新培训计划的基础：(1)营养与心血管疾病，(2)营养与癌症，(3)营养与神经科学/衰老，以及(4)营养与新陈代谢疾病。该培训计划以营养学多学科博士计划为基础，提供教学和研究。通过为研究和研究生培训分配专用空间，营养科学培训教员的研究设施在上一个供资期间得到了显着改善。对营养学有共同兴趣的教职员工在营养学博士项目中有联合任命，主要任命在多个单位，包括：老年学、解剖学/神经生物学、农业、生物化学、心脏病学、化学、胃肠病学、微生物学/免疫学、神经外科、儿科学、药理学、生理学、药学和放射医学。在这个培训项目中，有31名富有成效的、由资金资助的培训教师，他们具有高度的互动性。博士前培训计划包括营养学课程13学分，生物医学课程15学分，统计学4学分，研究伦理学1学分。学生在第一年参加由研究生院主任指导的实验室轮换，随后由一名主要教授和一个四人咨询委员会提供建议。四名博士前学生将被选中(在通过资格考试后)在四个广泛的营养重要性领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Poort dietary habits play an etiological role in 5 of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States. In spite of long-standing compelling arguments, nutrition education in medical schools remains inadequate. This is a competing renewal of a training program in the area of "Oxidative Stress and Nutrition". Progress has been excellent during the previous funding period as evidenced by student qualifications, honors and awards, and productivity. Four areas of emphasis in nutritional sciences form the basis of the training program in the competing renewal: (1) Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease, (2) Nutrition and Cancer, (3) Nutrition and Neuroscience/Aging, and (4) Nutrition and Metabolic Disease. The training program is based in the Multidisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Nutritional Sciences, which provides teaching and research. The research facilities of training faculty in Nutritional Sciences has been markedly improved during the previous funding period through allocation of dedicated space for research and graduate training. Faculty members sharing a common interest in nutrition have joint appointments in the Nutritional Sciences Ph.D. Program with primary appointments in multiple units, including: Aging, Anatomy/Neurobiology, Agriculture, Biochemistry, Cardiology, Chemistry, Gastroenterology, Microbiology/Immunology, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Radiation Medicine. There are 31 productive, funded training faculty who are highly interactive in this training program. The training program for pre-doctoral includes 13 credit hours in nutrition-based courses, 15 credit hours in biomedically based courses, 4 credit hours in statistics, and 1 credit hour in ethics in research. Students participate in laboratory rotations guided by the Director of Graduate Studies during the first year, and subsequently are advised by a major professor and a 4 member advisory committee. Four Pre-doctoral students will be selected (after passing the qualifying examination) in the 4 broad areas of nutritional importance