Training Cardiovascular Biology: PREDOCTORAL

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一个新的应用程序的产前培训计划，旨在培养每年五个研究生感兴趣的心血管系统。 心血管疾病是美国死亡率和发病率的主要原因，因此需要在基础研究方面做出重大努力。 该培训计划将为未来的科学家提供一种培训形式，他们将投入时间和精力开发研究和控制疾病的工具。 本申请的主要目标是建立一个正式的研究和学术培训计划的博士。也是医学博士博士从医学院的申请者中精心挑选的候选人，从而吸引了有能力的年轻科学家对心血管研究的关注，引领了生物医学研究的职业生涯。培训内容包括动脉粥样硬化、心力衰竭和高血压等心血管疾病相关主题，涉及生理学、药理学、病理学、生物化学、遗传学和分子生物学等学科。 课程还将包括心血管生物学的特殊课程，重点是基础研究，疾病机制和临床相关性。 学员将参加惠特克的各种活动 心血管研究所（CVI）在我们的研究所。 培训学院附属于基础科学部门和CVI。 培训计划的成员之间有很强的研究互动。 每个学院都有教授研究生课程的经验，大多数学院都有许多继续担任学术职务的受训人员，并且都至少有一个来自NIH的积极资助。 拟议的计划可能是独一无二的，因为它将提供一个机会，培养博士前研究员在翻译和基础心血管研究的学术环境中，其中相当多的经验是可用的，在心血管生物学前沿资助的研究正在进行中，并在敏感性的需要研究生 学生是由学术导师的方法提供。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new application for a PREDOCTORAL training program designed to train yearly five graduate students interested in the cardiovascular system. Cardiovascular diseases represent the major causes of mortality and morbidity in the United States, and thus require major efforts in fundamental research. The training program will provide a format for the training of future scientists who will devote time and efforts in developing the tools to study and control the disease. The major goal of this application is to establish a formal research and academic training program for Ph.D. as well as M.D.-Ph.D. candidates that have been carefully selected from a total pool of applicants to the medical school, thus capturing attention of competent young scientists to cardiovascular research, leading the way to a career in biomedical research. Training will be offered in topics related to cardiovascular disease including atherosclerosis, heart failure and hypertension, with application of disciplines as physiology, pharmacology, pathology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. The curriculum will also include special courses in cardiovascular biology, with a focus on basic research, mechanism of disease and clinical relevance. Trainees will participate in various activities of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) at our institute. The training faculty is affiliated with basic science departments and with the CVI. There are strong research interactions between members of the training program. Each faculty has experience in teaching graduate courses, most have had numerous trainees that have gone on to hold academic positions, and all have at least one active grant from NIH. The proposed program may be unique in that it will provide an opportunity to train predoctoral fellows in translational and basic cardiovascular research in an academic setting in which considerable experience is available, where cutting-edge funded research in cardiovascular biology is ongoing, and where sensitivity to the need of graduate students is provided by an academic mentor approach.