Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology

描述（申请人提供）：威尔康奈尔/洛克菲勒/斯隆-凯特琳三机构化学生物学培训计划包括来自纽约州伊萨卡的康奈尔大学（CU）和康奈尔大学威尔医学院（WCMC），洛克菲勒大学（RU）和斯隆-凯特琳研究所（SKI）的联合教师，位于纽约市（NYC）的纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心（MSKCC）的研究部门-后一组三个生物医学研究和教育机构在地理上非常接近。 我们拟议项目的主题是创造一个新的培训环境，专门为培养下一代或具有化学和生物医学科学专业知识的科学家而量身定制。这种新的培训环境，被称为化学生物学培训计划（TPCB），试图解决融合两个学科与不同的科学文化和方法的挑战，即，即化学和生物医学研究。为了保持和确保化学研究生课程典型的严格培训，参加该计划的学生必须首先被录取到伊萨卡康奈尔大学的化学研究生课程，并在第一年完成研究生课程的扩展和加速时间表。在他们第一年上课前的夏天以及第一年的寒假期间，学生在纽约市参与机构的生物医学研究实验室进行短期研究实习。第二年的培训在纽约市参与机构的校园内进行，并为学生提供生物医学研究前沿方面的培训。 除了在每个地点的课程和实验室工作，学生还接触到一系列的研究研讨会，让他们最大限度地接触到在4个机构的研究环境。 该计划已经招募了第三批入学学生，使目前的入学人数达到25名。该计划的目标是在生物医学科学环境中培养化学家，而不仅仅是让学生从化学转向生物学。在后基因组学时代，以化学家的思维方式研究生物医学问题的必要性更加紧迫。该项目的目标是通过同时在这两个不同的研究学科中培养学生，帮助满足这些具有挑战性的研究问题所定义的未来需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology comprises combined faculty from Cornell University (CU) in Ithaca , NY and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University (WCMC), The Rockefeller University (RU), and the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI), the research arm of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City (NYC)- the latter group of three biomedical research and educational institutions are in close geographic proximity. The main theme of our proposed project is to create a new training environment that will be specifically tailored to train a future generation or scientists with expertise at the interface of chemistry and the biomedical sciences. This new training environment, referred to as the Training Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB) attempts to address the challenges of melding two disciplines with diverse scientific cultures and approaches, i.e., that of chemistry with that of biomedical research. In order to maintain and insure the rigorous training typical of graduate programs in chemistry, students that participate in this program must first be admitted to the graduate program in Chemistry at Cornell in Ithaca and complete an expanded and accelerated schedule of graduate classes in the first year. During the summer preceding their first year of classes as well as during the winter-break period of the first year, students carry out short research internships in biomedical research laboratories at the New York City participating institutions. The second year of training takes place on the campuses of the New York City participating institutions and gives the students training in cutting edge aspects of biomedical research. In addition to course and lab work in each location, students are also exposed to a series of research seminars to give them maximal exposure to the research environments at the 4 institutions. The program has recruited its third class of entering students bringing the current enrollment to 25 students. The goal of the program is to train chemists in a biomedical science environment, not merely to have students switch from chemistry to biology. The need to examine biomedical problems with the mindset of a chemist is lever more pressing in the post-genomics era. The goal of this project is to help meet the future needs defined in terms of these challenging research problems by training students simultaneously in these two different research disciplines.