UofL Environmental Health Sciences Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项建议描述了环境健康科学博士前培训计划 路易斯维尔大学。它是生物化学系和 分子生物学和药理学与毒理学，这两个学科都有长期成功的研究生课程。培训计划受益于他们在师资、研究和计划方面的优势。通过与六个跨学科研究中心的积极参与和互动，先进的培训计划得到了加强：1)环境和职业健康科学中心，2)遗传学和分子医学中心，3)公共卫生研究所，4)出生缺陷中心，5)詹姆斯·格雷厄姆·布朗癌症中心，以及6)生物伦理、卫生政策和法律研究所。受训者轮流在教员实验室接受跨学科研究培训，并选择专注于环境健康科学研究的四个领域的论文研究项目：1)环境基因组学，2)环境侮辱的基本机制，3)生殖健康和4)环境心脏病学。核心课程提供生物化学和分子生物学、药理学和毒理学、细胞生物学、遗传学、流行病学、生物统计学、研究方法和生物伦理学的跨学科学术基础。最初，招收学生和资助博士前实习生是由路易斯维尔大学医学院在生物医学科学招生门户中的综合计划提供的。请拨资金以支持两名博士前实习生/年，从他们第二年开始。培训计划将从4名学员开始，随着项目的成熟增加到8名学员。几个跨学科的项目和核心设施也加强了学生的培训。路易斯维尔大学增加了对健康科学研究和基础设施、研究生教育和少数族裔招聘的承诺，使这一培训计划特别及时。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes an environmental health sciences predoctoral training program at the University of Louisville. It is a dynamic partnership between the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pharmacology & Toxicology, both of which have long-standing successful graduate programs. The training program benefits from their combined faculty, research, and programmatic strengths. The state-of-the art training program is enhanced through active participation and interaction with six interdisciplinary research centers: 1) Center for Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences 2) Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, and 3) Institute for Public Health Research, 4) Birth Defects Center, 5) James Graham Brown Cancer Center, and 6) Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law. Trainees rotate through faculty laboratories to receive interdisciplinary research training and to select dissertation research projects focusing in four areas of environmental health science research: 1) environmental genomics, 2) basic mechanisms of environmental insult, 3) reproductive health and 4) environmental cardiology. A core curriculum provides an interdisciplinary academic foundation in biochemistry and molecular biology, pharmacology and toxicology, cell biology, genetics, epidemiology, biostatistics, research methods and bioethics. Initially student recruitment and funding for predoctoral trainees is provided by the University of Louisville School of Medicine Integrated Programs in the Biomedical Sciences recruitment gateway. Funds are requested to support two predoctoral trainees/year beginning in their second year. The training program will begin with four trainees and increase to eight trainees as the program matures. Several interdisciplinary program projects and core facilities also strengthen student training. The University of Louisville has increased its commitment to health science research and infrastructure, graduate education, and minority recruitment, making this training program particularly timely.