Course Development in the Neurobiology of Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：本建议书是为规划支持，以建立一个新的疾病神经生物学课程和贝勒医学院研究生学习的轨道。在神经科学研究方面有着悠久的卓越历史-无论是基础还是临床。该计划代表了在研究生教育中开发综合课程和培训轨道的新努力，该课程利用了来自10个基础和临床部门的教师的优势，提供了一个正式的课程，其中包括详细的第一原理方法来研究影响神经系统的疾病的潜在细胞和分子过程。合作努力从神经病学，神经外科，儿科，精神病学和特殊感官（眼科和耳鼻喉科）领域的疾病病理生物学的严格科学分析的角度来研究神经系统。该计划将吸引学生从现有的研究生课程在神经科学（目前由美国国立卫生研究院NIGMS博士露丝L。Kirschstein NRSA T32培训补助金，资助至2009年），医学博士/博士该计划与贝勒医学院新成立的转化生物学和分子医学研究生培训计划合作，并为来自分子和细胞生物学，发育生物学和遗传学研究生课程的其他感兴趣的学生提供疾病神经生物学课程。该课程将包括来自基础和临床神经科学家的团队讲座，以及通过查房和参观神经科学临床诊断和治疗程序接触临床病例。此外，该课程将作为所有神经科学学生现有神经科学研究生课程的标准组成部分，并为计划将研究培训主要集中在疾病神经生物学的学生提供焦点。这一举措正在制定在一个特别吉祥的时间在生物学，结合推出一项重大的战略计划，其中包括翻译神经科学，神经科学的新主席的雇用，该学院的第一任主任协调神经科学倡议之间的任命基础和临床部门和扩大研究生培训计划在转化生物学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is for planning support to establish a new neurobiology of disease course and track of graduate study at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). BCM has a long history of excellence in neuroscience research - both basic and clinical. This program represents a new effort to develop an integrated course and training track in graduate education that draws on the strengths of faculty from 10 basic and clinical departments, providing a formal course that includes a detailed first principles approach to the study of the underlying cellular and molecular processes of diseases that affect the nervous system throughout the lifespan. The collaborative effort approaches the study of the nervous system from the perspective of rigorous scientific analysis of the pathobiology of disorders from the realms of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and the special senses (Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology). The program will draw students from existing graduate programs in Neuroscience (currently supported by an NIH NIGMS Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA T32 training grant that is funded until 2009), the M.D./Ph.D. program and the newly formed Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine graduate training program at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as providing access to the neurobiology of diseases course to other interested students from graduate programs in molecular and cellular biology, developmental biology and genetics. The course will include team lectures from basic and clinical neuroscientists as well as exposure to clinical cases through rounds and visits to neuroscience clinical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In addition, the course will serve as a standard component of the existing Neuroscience graduate curriculum for all neuroscience students as well as providing a focal point for students who plan to focus their research training primarily in neurobiology of disease. This initiative is being developed at a particularly auspicious time at BCM, in conjunction with the launching of a major strategic plan that includes translational neuroscience, the hiring of a new Chair of Neuroscience, the appointment of the College's first Director for coordinating Neuroscience Initiatives between basic and clinical departments and expanded graduate training initiatives in translational biology.