Training Grant in Transfusion Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一份修订后的NRSA申请表（T32 HL 69769），请求埃默里大学输血医学项目（TMP）研究奖学金的工资支持。 如果获得资助，这笔赠款将为博士后研究员提供工资支持，以参加为期两年的输血医学研究密集实验室经验。 该计划将每年招收一名研究员，为期5年，旨在满足公认的输血医学基础，转化和跨学科研究培训的需求。 这种培训是必要的，以培养未来的专家在输血和移植研究，以促进进一步增长和研究发展的专业和它的能力，以促进其他领域的研究和临床实践。 先前确定的计划优势包括：首席研究员/项目主任;培训计划的组织作为一个小规模的计划，强调高质量的候选人和研究项目;具有强大的科学，资金和培训记录的高级教师的参与;并提供教育研究员和外部评估培训计划的具体机制。 我们已通过以下方式改进了较早提交文件中确定的两个薄弱环节：1）修订表II， 附录I更清楚地代表教师培训的历史;和2）通过加强外部咨询委员会提供的监督来解决输血医学项目的“年轻人”问题。 为了进一步强调该计划在培训博士后研究员方面提供直接个人努力的承诺，教师导师仅限于那些在培训早期职业调查人员方面拥有大量资金和良好记录的人。 为了强调输血医学研究的转化和跨学科性质，该计划单位略有修改如下：1）输血和移植传播的病原体; 2）基础输血和移植免疫学;和3）干细胞和体细胞移植。 我们感谢评审员提出的许多积极和建设性的意见，并注意到埃默里大学没有其他部门、部门或项目提供输血医学的研究培训，也没有其他资金用于此类培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised NRSA application (T32 HL69769) requesting salary support for a Transfusion Medicine Program (TMP) Research Fellowship at Emory University. If funded, this grant would provide salary support for post-doctoral fellows to participate in a two-year, intensive laboratory experience in transfusion medicine research. The program, which would enroll one fellow per year for a 5-year period, aims to fill the acknowledged need for basic, translational, and interdisciplinary research training in transfusion medicine. Such training is needed to develop future specialists in transfusion and transplantation research in order to contribute to the further growth and research development of the specialty and its ability to contribute to other fields of research and clinical practice. Program strengths previously identified include: the Principal Investigator/Program Director; the organization of the training plan as a small-scale program emphasizing high-quality candidates and research projects; the involvement of senior faculty with strong scientific, funding, and training records; and the provision of specific mechanisms for educating fellows and externally evaluating the training program. We have improved upon the 2 areas of weakness identified in the earlier submission by: 1) revising Table II, Appendix I to more clearly represent faculty training histories; and 2) addressing the "youth" of the transfusion medicine program by reinforcing the oversight to be provided by the External Advisory Board. To further underscore the program's commitment to providing direct personal effort in training post-doctoral research fellows, the faculty mentors have been limited to only those with significant funding and proven track records in training early-career investigators. To emphasize the translational and interdisciplinary nature of transfusion medicine research, the program units have been slightly revised as follows: 1) Transfusion- and transplantation-transmitted pathogens; 2) Basic transfusion and transplantation immunology; and 3) Stem and somatic cell transplantation. We are appreciative to the reviewers for the many positive and constructive comments, and note that no other department, division, or program at Emory provides research training in transfusion medicine, and no other funds for such training are available.