Training in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

凯斯西储大学（CWRU）地理医学与传染病培训项目（AI-07024）自1976年以来一直获得资助，旨在培养传染病研究方面的医生、内科科学家和基础科学家，特别关注全球重要疾病。我们建议每年培养4名博士后和2名博士预科生。强调传染病研究的跨学科方法，反映了CWRU校园中已经存在的完善的部门间和国际合作。为了实现这一目标，鼓励对受训者进行双重指导，以提供独特的基础和临床研究培训。为此，我们提供了39名教员培训师，代表医学和牙科学院的9个部门。这些科学家中的大多数以跨学科的方式进行了富有成效的合作并成功地培训了研究和医生科学家。传染病研究和培训活动在以地理医学部、结核病研究中心（TBRU）、艾滋病研究中心（CFAR）、艾滋病临床试验中心（ACTU）和抗菌剂研究和流行病学中心（CARE）为基础的具体方案内进一步组织。这些机构大多维持着活跃的海外研究项目，并支持在中国科研中心培训外国科学家，从而促进了一个健康的国际研究合作环境。该项目已被证明是博士后职业发展的肥沃环境。在过去的十年中，该项目已招募和支持了19名学员（15名医学博士，3名博士和1名医学博士）。在完成培训的14名学员中，有11名（78%）获得教职，并且是活跃的研究人员。8所大学（57%）接受政府资助进行研究。自上次更新以来，我们已经成功注册了两个博士和一个医学博士。参加这个项目的科学家实习生。为了满足CWRU在传染病研究方面对博士前实习生的支持需求，同时进一步扩大该项目的教育多样性，本申请每年寻求2个博士前职位的新资助。由于可能出现重叠的问题，我们将把每年的博士后培养人数从5人减少到4人。学员在得到培训项目支持的同时，将100%的时间投入到研究培训中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training program in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (AI-07024) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), funded continuously since 1976, aims to rigorously train physicians, physician-scientists and basic scientists in infectious diseases research with a special focus on illnesses of global importance. We propose to train four postdoctoral and two predoctoral trainees per year. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of infectious diseases are emphasized, reflecting well-established interdepartmental and international collaborations already present on the CWRU campus. To facilitate this goal, dual mentorship of trainees is encouraged to provide unique blends of basic and clinical research training. For this purpose, we provide 39 faculty trainers representing nine Departments in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Most of these scientists have productively collaborated and successfully trained research and physician scientists in an interdisciplinary manner. Infectious diseases research and training activities are further organized within specific programs based around the Division of Geographic Medicine, the Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU), the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) and the Center for Antimicrobial Research and Epidemiology (CARE). Most of these maintain active overseas research projects and support training at CWRU of foreign scientists, thus promoting a healthy collaborative environment for international research. This program has proven to be a fertile environment for postdoctoral career development. In the last ten years, this program has recruited and supported nineteen trainees (15 M.D., 3 Ph.D. and one M.D.-Ph.D.). Of the fourteen trainees that have completed training, eleven (78%) have faculty appointments and are active researchers. Eight (57%) receive their own governmental funding for research. Since the last renewal, we have successfully incorporated two Ph.D. and one M.D.-Ph.D. scientist trainee into the program. To meet a documented need for predoctoral trainee support in infectious diseases research at CWRU, while further broadening the educational diversity of this program, this application seeks new funding for 2 pre-doctoral positions per year. Due to potential overlap concerns, we will decrease numbers of post-doctoral trainees from 5 to 4 per year. Trainees, while supported by the training program, will devote 100% of their time to research training.