Training Grant in Sleep Research

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求对睡眠研究中已建立的培训计划的支持，该计划为博士前学生和博士后研究员提供广泛的科学学科的跨学科培训，这些学科对睡眠研究的未来至关重要。培训将在西北大学和芝加哥大学进行，培训教师在整合两所大学的优势方面有着良好的记录，以开展研究并培训睡眠研究、时间生物学和相关学科的学生。九个初级培训学院的联合研究将使学员能够将遗传学，基因组学，内分泌学，药理学，神经生物学，认知神经科学，老年学和时间生物学等领域的尖端方法和技术整合到睡眠研究的培训中。由于该培训计划中的导师积极参与分子，细胞，系统和行为水平的研究，因此学员将在一个丰富的活动环境中接受培训，这些活动被整合在一起，以研究生物组织各个层面的睡眠基本机制。该培训计划的一个主要特点是对学生和研究员进行现代基础研究以及使用动物模型和人类进行睡眠研究的患者导向研究的培训。目前的培训计划已从原来的5名导师扩大到9名导师，为学员提供了一个真正的多学科计划，在更广泛的生物医学研究领域，如心血管生理学，呼吸生物学，代谢和功能基因组学的前沿研究的背景下进行睡眠研究培训。需要为四名博士前学生和五名博士后学生提供支助。只有那些已经完成大部分课程并对睡眠研究有明确承诺的研究生才能获得该计划的支持。博士后研究员将从博士和/或医学博士课程的应届毕业生中选出，他们具有睡眠或相关领域的研究经验，并且明确承诺在睡眠研究计划中接受至少两年的培训。该培训计划的导师已经建立了成功的个人以及对睡眠研究至关重要的合作研究计划，该培训补助金将使他们能够利用这些综合研究计划的优势来培训下一代睡眠研究人员。

Description (provided by applicant): This application seeks support for an established Training Program in Sleep Research which offers predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows interdisciplinary training in a wide range of scientific disciplines that are central to the future of sleep research. Training will occur at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago by faculty who have an established track record for integrating the strengths of the two Universities for the performance of research and the training of students in sleep research, chronobiology and related disciplines. The combined research of the nine Primary Training Faculty will enable trainees to integrate cutting edge approaches and techniques in the areas of genetics, genomics, endocrinology, pharmacology, neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, gerontology and chronobiology into their training in sleep research. Because the preceptors in this Training Program are actively involved in research at the molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral levels, trainees will be trained in a rich environment of activities that are integrated together for the study of the basic mechanisms of sleep at all levels of biological organization. A key feature of this Training Program will be the training of students and fellows in both modem basic oriented research as well as patient oriented research using both animal models and humans for the study of sleep. The present training program has expanded from its original 5 preceptors to 9 preceptors which provides the trainees with a truly multidisciplinary program for training in sleep research in the context of cutting edge research in broader biomedical research areas such as cardiovascular physiology, respiratory biology, metabolism and functional genomics. Support is requested for four predoctoral and five postdoctoral students. Only graduate students who have completed most of their course work and who have demonstrated a clear commitment to sleep research will be supported by this Program. Postdoctoral fellows will be selected from recent graduates of a PhD and/or MD program who have research experience in sleep, or in a related field, and who have a clear commitment to at least two years of training in the Sleep Research Program. The preceptors in this Training Program have built successful individual as well as collaborative research programs that are of central importance to sleep research, and this Training Grant will enable them to utilize the strengths of these integrated research programs for the training of the next generation of sleep researchers.