Training in Biotechnology: Emphasis in Protein Chemistry

申请者描述(由申请人提供)：本申请是为美国国立卫生研究院资助的博士前项目第一年，位于的华盛顿州立大学生物技术培训助学金的下一个5年续期申请。自1998年我们上一次续签以来，培训计划在质量、认可度和影响力方面不断提高。在此期间，该计划在我校决定将生物技术作为西澳州立大学的首要研究重点推进方面发挥了关键作用，并在我们校园内建立了国家资助的综合生物技术中心。从历史上看，我们的跨学科项目主要侧重于蛋白质生物化学，这是威斯康星州立大学的一个重要领域，也是生物技术的核心重要性，我们现在也在扩大我们的学员的教育机会，将快速发展的蛋白质组学领域包括在内。该计划目前有29名培训教师，分布在4所学院(农业、工程、科学和兽医)，他们在这些领域提供深度和深度的培训，并担任受训人员研究的导师。受训人员参加所需的核心培训，包括课程、实验室轮换、研讨会、期刊俱乐部、工业培训、生物技术讲习班和专题讨论会。学员可以灵活选择8种不同的博士课程，包括生物化学和生物物理学、化学、化学工程、遗传学和细胞生物学、微生物学、药理学和毒理学、植物生理学和兽医微生物学和病理学。每年至少有5名新学员参加该计划。头两年的工资支持将由培训助学金基金提供，并辅之以机构资金，随后的几年将通过提供给教员的资金或通过我们研究生院的承诺资金提供。在任何时候，都会有大约30名或更多的学生参与培训。多年来，休斯敦州立大学为该方案提供了大量的直接财政支持，并在下一个续展期重申了这一承诺。事实上，WSU正在积极鼓励大幅扩大该方案的受训人数，大幅增加其对下一个资助期的财政承诺水平。培训学院在竞争激烈的研究经费和培养多产和杰出的科学家和工程师方面有着良好的记录。在过去几年中，该方案招收了各种各样的高素质学生群体，其中包括相当数量的少数族裔和其他代表性不足群体的成员，我们正在积极努力改进这一领域。毕业的实习生担任了竞争激烈的博士后研究人员职位，随后又在生物技术或学术界担任长期职位。该计划提供与生物技术相关的基础科学和应用科学方面的最先进的培训，从而培养出具有良好的跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，他们有资格满足生物技术的主要需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for the next 5-year renewal of the Biotechnology Training Grant first awarded to Washington State University (WSU) in 1989, the first year of the NIH-funded Predoctoral Program. Since our last renewal in 1998, the Training Program has continued to gain in quality, recognition and impact. During this period the Program played a key role in the decision by our institution to move Biotechnology forward as the premier research focus of WSU and in the establishment of the State-funded Center for Integrated Biotechnology on our campus. Historically our crossdisciplinary Program has had a major emphasis on protein biochemistry, an area of prominence at WSU and of central importance to biotechnology, and we are now also expanding the educational opportunities for our Trainees to include the fast moving area of proteomics. The Program currently 29 Training faculty located in 4 Colleges (Agriculture, Engineering, Sciences and Veterinary Medicine) who provide depth and breath of training in these areas and also serve as preceptors for Trainee research. Trainees participate in a core of required training involving courses, laboratory rotations, seminars, journal clubs, industrial intemships and biotechnology workshops and symposia. Trainees have significant flexibility and options in choosing between 8 different Ph.D. programs including Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Genetics & Cell Biology, Microbiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Plant Physiology and Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology. A minimum of 5 new Trainees will enter the Program each year. Salary support will be provided for the first two years by Training Grant funds supplemented by Institutional funds and for subsequent years by funds available to preceptors or through committed funds from our Graduate School. At any one time approximately 30 or more students will be involved in training. Over the years WSU has provided significant direct financial support to the Program and has renewed this commitment for the next renewal period. In fact, WSU is actively encouraging substantial expansion of the number of Trainees in the Program by significantly increasing its level of financial commitment for the next funding period. The Training Faculty have strong records of competitive research funding and of training productive and prominent scientists and engineers. In the last few years the Program has enrolled a diverse group of high quality students including a significant number of racial minorities and members of other underrepresented groups and we are actively engaged in efforts to improve in this area. Graduated trainees have taken competitive positions as postdoctoral researchers and, subsequently, long-term positions in biotechnology or academia. The Program provides state-of-the-art training in both basic and applied sciences relevant to biotechnology and thus produces scientists and engineers with sound interdisciplinary backgrounds, qualified to meet the major needs of biotechnology.