Training in Parasitic Diseases and Central Nervous System Infections in Peru.

这笔培训赠款将利用秘鲁现有的研究基础设施，培训秘鲁科学家和卫生专业人员进行传染病研究。这项建议是在秘鲁利马的佩鲁阿纳卡耶塔诺大学(UPCH)和约翰霍普金斯公共卫生学院(JHSPH)之间成功的、长期的、由NIH资助的培训和研究合作的基础上进行的。在过去的20年里，这个项目已经培训了67名秘鲁人和223名其他国籍的本科生和研究生。在秘鲁，一项导师计划将用于培训学生的研究方法。这项计划的具体目标是：(1)培训两名秘鲁学生在UPCH的公共卫生和/或生物化学方面的硕士水平；(2)设立一个为期三天的研究研讨会，培训来自利马以外的个人，内容涉及寄生虫和分子生物学研究方法、生物伦理学、负责任的研究和赠款撰写技能；(3)使15名秘鲁学生能够参加JHSPH热带医学和公共卫生暑期研究所，为期五年；和(4)在JHSPH培训两名秘鲁博士生，为期五年(5)。培训将在基础广泛的传染病研究计划中进行，主要重点是恰加斯？疾病、囊虫病和肺结核。要针对的其他具体疾病包括一般寄生虫病(双叶虫病、强直线虫病、尾尾寒症)、神经系统感染和腹泻病。该计划在肠道寄生虫感染、幽门螺杆菌感染以及最近的钩端螺旋体病和疟疾方面的成功和创新研究也有很长的历史。所有这些领域的研究都在进行中，并提供了广泛的培训机会。我们计划的组织不依赖于任何个人或机构。相反，它实现了可持续性，因为它有一个广泛的合作者网络，其中包括多所美国和外国大学。导师将由本地科学家和来自海外机构的客座教师提供。

This training grant will utilize an existing research infrastructure in Peru to train Peruvian scientists and health professionals in infectious disease research. This proposal expands on the foundation of a successful, longstanding, NIH-funded training and research collaboration between the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH). Over the past 20 years, this program has trained over 67 Peruvians and 223 graduate and post-graduate students of other nationalities. In Peru, a mentorship program will be used to train students in research methodology. The specific aims of this program are (1) to train two Peruvian students at the Masters level at UPCH in Public Health and/or Biochemistry; (2) to set up one three-day research seminar to train individuals from outside Lima in cestode and molecular biology research methodology, as well as bioethics, responsible research, and grant writing skills; (3) to enable fifteen Peruvian students to attend the Tropical Medicine and Public Health Summer Institute at JHSPH over a five year period; and (4) to train two Peruvian PhD candidates at JHSPH in International Health over a five year period (5). Training will occur within a broad-based infectious disease research program, with primary emphasis on Chagas? disease, cysticercosis, and tuberculosis. Other specific diseases to be targeted include Parasitic Diseases in general (diphyllobothriasis, strongiloidiasis, coenurosis), infections of the nervous system, and diarrheal disease. The program also has a long history of successful and innovative investigation in enteric parasitic infections, Helicobacter pylori infection, and more recently, leptospirosis and malaria. Studies in all of these areas are ongoing and provide a wide breadth of training opportunities. The organization of our program is not dependent on any single individual or institution. Rather, it has achieved sustainability because of a wide network of collaborators that include multiple American and foreign universities. Mentorship will be provided by local scientists as well as by visiting faculty from overseas institutions.