Biotechnology Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的生物技术培训计划(BTP)旨在培训一批使用生物-物理科学接口的跨学科方法来解决生物医学研究问题的研究人员。BTP是一个多维度的项目，它建立在5所学院现有学科优势的基础上，同时为学员提供一套共同的跨学科体验。BTP实习生被录取并满足5个核心博士课程(生物化学、生物分子化学、化学、化学工程和微生物学)中的一个或校园内许多其他优秀课程的要求。这些研究生课程为学员提供了成为各自领域未来领导者所需的卓越学科能力。BTP实习生有一系列共同的跨学科经历，使他们有别于同龄人；这些经历包括以生物技术为导向的辅修课程计划，与另一学科的BTP辅修教授的定期互动，参加生物技术学生研讨会计划，以及工业实习。这些共同的经验确保了所有BTP实习生，无论他们的专业博士项目是什么，都将熟悉21世纪作为跨学科科学家和工程师所需的分子生物学、遗传学、生物化学和生理学原理。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校很荣幸能与NIH合作，赞助全国最大的BTP，有33名NIGMS资助的学员。在其14年的历史中，BTP培养了174名博士生，他们与94名不同的教职员工在20个博士项目中合作。随着学生对BTP的兴趣持续增长，学员参与所有BTP活动的机会日益受到限制。因此，我们要求在未来两年每年增加3个NIH资助的职位，因此总共将有39名BTP学员处于稳定状态。NIH增加的支持将允许更多的高质量学生参加BTP活动，扩大校园内跨学科互动的广度，并增加受训人员利用最新技术进步来解决生物-物理科学接口上新出现的问题的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to train a cadre of researchers who use cross-disciplinary approaches from the biological-physical science interface to solve biomedical research problems. The BTP is a multi-dimensional program that builds on existing disciplinary excellence across 5 colleges while providing trainees a common set of cross-disciplinary experiences. BTP trainees are admitted to and fulfill the requirements of either one of the 5 core Ph.D. programs (Biochemistry, Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Microbiology) or those of many other outstanding programs on campus. These graduate programs provide the disciplinary excellence that trainees need to become future leaders in their respective fields. A common set of crossdisciplinary experiences distinguishes BTP trainees from their peers; these include a biotechnology-oriented minor course program, regular interactions with a BTP minor professor from another discipline, participation in a biotechnology student seminar program, and an industrial internship. These common experiences ensure that all BTP trainees, regardless of their major Ph. D. program, will be conversant in the molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry and physiology principles required to function as cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers in the 21st Century. UW-Madison is proud to partner with NIH in sponsoring the largest BTP in the country, with 33 NIGMS funded trainees. In its 14 year history, the BTP has trained 174 Ph.D. students who worked with 94 different faculty in 20 Ph. D. programs. As student interest in the BTP has continued to grow, the opportunities for trainees to partake of all BTP activities is increasingly constrained. Consequently, we are requesting 3 more NIH-funded positions in each of the next 2 years, so there will be a total of 39 BTP trainees at steady-state. Increased NIH support will permit more high-quality students to partake of BTP activities, expand the breadth of cross-disciplinary interactions across campus, and increase opportunities for trainees to capitalize on recent technological advances in order to solve emerging problems at the biological-physical science interface.