21st-Century Imaging Sciences: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Training

对成像科学的持续进步至关重要的是将传统上离散的细胞系整合在一起， research.例如，在观察活细胞中的细胞器和大分子复合物方面的进展 need to be integrated集成with new新methodological方法approach途径to imaging成像live活的animals动物; advances进展in 产生新型显像剂的生物化学需要与选择性成像的新方法相结合， 细胞递送和使用模拟人类疾病的转基因动物模型。为了实现 不断发展的分子、细胞、活体动物和人类成像范式提供了一个21世纪的核心， 科学家必须接受培训以及化学、生物学、工程学、物理学和 数学必须实现。 华盛顿大学的成像科学界，由于其广泛性、多样性和 资金的深度，是在一个很好的位置，以促进发展的一种新的方法，吸引和 培训下一代成像科学家。我们建议设计课程和开发机会， 在学生学术生涯的最形成阶段接触他们在他们的本科， 毕业岁月尽早接触学生是发展广泛的学术基础， 包括物理科学、生命科学和工程学。本科成像科学途径将 发展。大三和大四的学生将有机会参加以下课程： 化学、物理学、计算机科学、工程学和与成像相关的分子细胞生物学 科学，并获得深入的研究经验，在实验室的成像科学学院。为 博士前的学生，我们建议创建一个研究生成像科学途径，将提供给 生物医学科学、物理和定量科学、心理学和工程学的学生。我们 预计研究生衔接课程将在2008年成熟成为一个正式的研究生课程，当我们 优化了课程设置，建立了跨学科培训的行政机制， 在艺术和科学，医学，工程和应用学院有导师的学生 以理工科为重我们设想，一个研究生谁已经完成了在成像科学途径的培训， 或研究生课程将准备扩大他们的视野，并为研究打开新的机会， 跨学科科学的新时代 [相关机构：国家生物医学和生物医学研究所、国家地理和气象科学研究所、国家癌症研究所、国家土著和社会发展研究所、国家生物医学和生物医学研究所]

Critical to continued progress in imaging sciences is the integration of traditionally discrete lines of research. For example, advances in observing organelles and macromolecular complexes in living cells need to be integrated with new methodological approachesto imaging live animals; advances in siochemistry that produce novel imaging agents need to be integrated with new approaches to selective cellular delivery and employ transgenic animal models simulating human diseases. To realize the potential that evolving paradigms of molecular, cellular, live animal and human imaging offer, a cadre of 21st-century scientists must be trainedand a revolutionary synthesis of chemistry, biology, engineering, physics and mathematics must be achieved. The imaging science community at Washington University, because of its breadth, diversity and depth of funding, is in an excellent position to foster the development of a new approach by attracting and training next-generation imaging scientists. We propose to devise curricula and develop opportunities that reach out to students at the most formative stages of their academic careersin their undergraduate and graduate years. Early accessto students is imperative to develop a broadly-basedacademic foundation in both the physical and life sciences, and in engineering. An Undergraduate Imaging Sciences Pathway will be developed. Students in their junior and senior years will have the opportunity to take courses in chemistry, physics, computer science, engineering and molecular cell biology as they relate to imaging sciences, and to gain in-depth research experience in laboratories of imaging sciencesfaculty. For predoctoral students, we propose to create a Graduate Imaging Sciences Pathway that will be available to students in the biomedical sciences, physical and quantitative sciences, psychology, and engineering. We anticipate that the Graduate Pathway program will mature into a formal graduate program in 2008, when we have optimized the curriculum and developed the administrative mechanisms for interdisciplinary training of students having mentors in the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering and Applied Sciences. We envision that a graduate student who has completed training in the Imaging Sciences Pathway or graduate program will be poised to broaden their horizons and open new opportunities for research in the new age of interdisciplinary science. [Relevant Institutes: NIBIB, NIGMS, NCI.NINDS, NHLBJ]