An Integrated Curriculum for Genome Sciences and Policy

描述（由申请人提供）：随着人类和其他基因组全序列的可用性，有巨大的机会和期望利用该序列造福于公共福利。 然而，与此同时，基因组发现的迅速加快和基因组信息广泛使用的前景提高了人们对一些可能困扰整个社会的问题的认识，这些问题涉及个人权利、遗传歧视、人性、知识产权法、正常变异的含义、大规模数据存储和分析、以及国家健康和科学政策。 要有效地考虑基因组科学及其对个人和社会的影响，就需要有一批不仅在生物医学研究方面训练有素，而且在公共政策和社会科学方面知识渊博，能够参与这些学科交叉点研究的设计和实施的人。 杜克大学基因组科学与政策研究所（IGSP）的成立明确认识到，社会的这种进步不仅需要领先的科学，而且需要对这些社会和政策问题进行深入和深思熟虑的讨论。 虽然这一校园范围的倡议正在顺利进行，但迄今为止，其重点一直是发展基础设施，以支持基因组科学的跨学科研究，并在校园内的许多学校招聘新的教师。 目前的建议将促进对IGSP培训使命的类似奉献，并将导致为本科生、研究生和研究生制定基因组科学与政策综合课程。 这一综合课程将建立在PL对各级教育的承诺和有效性的历史以及杜克大学对IGSP的实质性承诺及其支持和加强跨学科奖学金的悠久传统的基础上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With the availability of the full sequence of the human and other genomes, there are enormous opportunities and expectations for utilizing the sequence to benefit the public welfare. At the same time, however, the rapidly increasing pace of genome discovery and the prospect of widespread use of genomic information has raised awareness of a number of potentially troubling issues for society at large, in areas as diverse as individual rights, genetic discrimination, the nature of humanity, intellectual property law, the meaning of normal variation, large-scale data storage and analysis, and national health and science policy. Effective consideration of both the genome sciences and their implications for individuals and society requires a set of individuals who are not only highly trained in biomedical research, but also broadly knowledgeable in public policy and the social sciences and capable of participating in the design and implementation of research at the intersections of these disciplines. The Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) was established with the explicit understanding that such advances for society require not just leading science, but science embedded in a thorough and thoughtful discussion of these societal and policy issues. While this campus-wide initiative is well underway, its focus to date has been on the development of infrastructure to support interdisciplinary research in the genome sciences and on recruitment of new faculty in many schools across campus. The current proposal will foster a similar dedication to the training mission of the IGSP and will lead to the development of an Integrated Curriculum in Genome Sciences and Policy at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. This integrated curriculum will build on the Pl's commitment to and history of effectiveness in education at all levels and on Duke University's substantial commitment to the IGSP and its long tradition of supporting and enhancing interdisciplinary scholarship.