Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering

描述（由申请人提供）： 该提案描述了心血管生物医学工程的跨学科培训计划，致力于培养博士前学生。学生将接受生物和工程学科的多学科教育，重点是心血管健康。该计划的一个主要目标是满足不断增长的生物医学工程领域和跨学科劳动力的需求。该计划利用了亚利桑那大学在生物工程和心血管生物学方面的强大专业知识。专业领域包括：生物力学、生物材料、光学、分子遗传学、血管生理学、放射学、成像、组织工程、基因工程和生物计算。培训教师是独立的研究人员，共同致力于研究生培训。该学院拥有强大的支持记录，并积极参与合作研究活动。包括临床教师和参与通过生物医学工程研究生课程提供的工业实习计划将促进学员的转化研究项目。该计划中的培训包括实验室和教学经验。教学部分包括核心生物医学工程研究生课程，许多选修研究生课程和定期安排的论坛和研讨会的可用性。学员的进度由学员的导师、学生咨询委员会、培训补助金计划委员会和他们各自的研究生课程监测。该计划的研究集中在三个一般领域：与心血管系统相关的植入物，组织工程和成像。在这些广泛的领域内，参与实验室正在研究的主题是：组织工程血管、微血管工程、血管生物力学、血管建模、激光血管成像、血管灌注的超声和磁共振、心血管仪器、血管基因组学、蛋白质组学和生物信息学以及血管组织的分子诊断。该培训计划的毕业生将成为独立的思想家，并接受心血管生物医学工程的多学科培训。(End摘要）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes an interdisciplinary training program in Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering dedicated to training predoctoral students. Students will receive a multidisciplinary education in the biological and engineering disciplines focusing on cardiovascular health. A major goal of this program is to meet the demands of a growing biomedical engineering field and interdisciplinary workforce. This program takes advantage of the strong expertise in bioengineering and cardiovascular biology present at the University of Arizona. Areas of expertise include: biomechanics, biomaterials, optics, molecular genetics, vascular physiology, radiology, imaging, tissue engineering, genetic engineering, and biocomputing. Training faculty are independent researchers with a shared commitment to graduate training. The faculty has a strong record of support and is actively involved in collaborative research activities. Inclusion of clinical faculty and participation in the Industrial Internship Program available through the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program will foster translational research projects for trainees. Training within this program involves laboratory and didactic experience. The didactic component includes the core biomedical engineering graduate curriculum, the availability of numerous elective graduate courses and regularly scheduled forums and seminars. Progress of the trainees is monitored by the trainee's mentor, the student's advisory committee, a training grant program committee and their respective graduate program. Research in the program is focused in three general areas: Implants, Tissue Engineering and Imaging as related to the cardiovascular system. Within these broad areas, topics being investigated in participating laboratories are: tissue engineered blood vessels, microvascular engineering, vascular biomechanics, vascular modeling, vascular imaging by laser, ultrasound and magnetic resonance of vascular perfusion, cardiovascular instrumentation, vascular genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics and molecular diagnostics of vascular tissues. Graduates of this training program will be independent thinkers with multidisciplinary training in cardiovascular biomedical engineering. (End of Abstract)