Research Scholar Program

镰状细胞学者计划的目标是为年轻的研究人员提供必要的保护时间和资源，以进行与了解镰状细胞疾病的遗传学、病理生理学、心理学或治疗相关的原创性研究。镰状细胞中心将促进学者、镰状细胞中心的其他成员、波士顿医学界和全国各地的镰状细胞疾病研究人员之间的富有成效的互动，并提供基础设施，使镰状细胞学者最终能够从事同行评议的独立研究。职业生涯规划将根据以下情况进行个性化 候选人的利益和野心。将为学者提供从事基础或临床研究的机会。然而，该中心的一个特别重点是促进致力于临床翻译研究的内科科学家的职业发展。我们的机构提供许多关于进行临床或基础研究的课程和研讨会系列，包括生物伦理学、生物统计学和流行病学。培训项目，包括NIH资助的K30奖，可供对临床或转化性研究感兴趣的个人使用。这项计划的重点是临床调查的方法，并提供基本的量化和研究设计技能的临床调查必不可少的。在此之前一年 在我们目前的镰状细胞奖学金任期结束后，镰状细胞中心的调查人员将被通知奖学金职位的重新竞争，并要求寻找符合镰状细胞奖学金标准的有前途的候选人。一个特别委员会将审查申请并向中心主任推荐候选人，其依据是：建议的科学质量；与镰状细胞疾病相关的生物医学科学持续职业生涯的可能性；与中心正在进行的研究的关系、导师的资历和培训记录；导师-学员关系的适宜性；候选人的培训和记录；对该职位的机构支持。

Goals of the Sickle Cell Scholar program are to provide protected time and resources necessary for a young investigator to pursue original research relevant to understanding the genetics, pathophysiology, psychology or treatment of sickle cell disease. The Sickle Cell Center will facilitate productive interactions between the Scholar, other members of the Sickle Cell Center, the medical community of Boston and sickle cell disease investigators throughout the nation and provide an infrastructure to allow the Sickle Cell Scholar ultimately to pursue a career of peer-reviewed independent research. A career plan will be individualized based upon the interests and ambitions of the candidate. The opportunity for the scholar to engage in either basic or clinical , research will be available. However, a particular focus of the center is to foster career development of physician-scientists committed to clinical translational research. Available at our institutions are many courses and seminar series on conducting clinical or basic investigations,including bioethics, biostatistics and epidemiology. Training programs, including the NIH-funded K30 award are available to individuals with an !interest in clinical or translational research. This program focuses on approaches to clinical investigation and provides basic quantitative and study design skills essential for clinical investigations. One year before the term of our current Sickle Cell Scholar ends, investigators of the sickle cell center will be notified of the recompetition of the Scholar position and asked to search for promising candidates who meet the criteria for the Sickle Cell Scholar. A special committee will review the applications and recommend a candidate to the Center Director, based on: quality of science proposed; likelihood of a continuing career in biomedical science relevant to sickle cell disease; relationship to ongoing research in the center, mentor's credentials and training record; suitability of the mentor-trainee relationship; training and record of the candidate; institutional support for the position.