Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology

描述(由申请人提供)：威尔康奈尔/洛克菲勒/斯隆-凯特琳化学生物学三机构培训计划包括来自纽约州伊萨卡市的康奈尔大学(CU)和康奈尔大学(WCMC)的威尔医学院(WCMC)、洛克菲勒大学(RU)和斯隆-凯特琳研究所(SKI)的联合教员，斯隆-凯特琳研究所(SKI)是纽约市(NYC)纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心(MSKCC)的研究机构-后者由三个生物医学研究和教育机构组成，地理位置很近。 我们提议的项目的主要主题是创造一个新的培训环境，专门为培养下一代或具有化学和生物医学科学专业知识的科学家而量身定做。这一新的培训环境被称为化学生物学培训计划(TPCB)，旨在应对将具有不同科学文化和方法的两个学科--即化学学科和生物医学研究学科--融合的挑战。为了保持和确保严格的化学研究生课程培训，参加该课程的学生必须首先被伊萨卡州康奈尔大学的化学研究生课程录取，并在第一年完成扩大和加快的研究生课程时间表。在第一年上课前的暑假以及第一年的寒假期间，学生们在纽约市参与机构的生物医学研究实验室进行短期研究实习。第二年的培训在纽约市参与机构的校园内进行，为学生提供生物医学研究前沿方面的培训。除了每个地点的课程和实验室工作外，学生还可以参加一系列的研究研讨会，让他们最大限度地接触到这四个机构的研究环境。 该项目已经招收了第三届新生，使目前的招生人数达到25人。该项目的目标是在生物医学科学环境中培养化学家，而不仅仅是让学生从化学转向生物。在后基因组学时代，以化学家的心态研究生物医学问题的必要性更加迫切。这个项目的目标是通过同时在这两个不同的研究学科中培训学生，来帮助满足根据这些具有挑战性的研究问题而确定的未来需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology comprises combined faculty from Cornell University (CU) in Ithaca , NY and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University (WCMC), The Rockefeller University (RU), and the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI), the research arm of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City (NYC)- the latter group of three biomedical research and educational institutions are in close geographic proximity. The main theme of our proposed project is to create a new training environment that will be specifically tailored to train a future generation or scientists with expertise at the interface of chemistry and the biomedical sciences. This new training environment, referred to as the Training Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB) attempts to address the challenges of melding two disciplines with diverse scientific cultures and approaches, i.e., that of chemistry with that of biomedical research. In order to maintain and insure the rigorous training typical of graduate programs in chemistry, students that participate in this program must first be admitted to the graduate program in Chemistry at Cornell in Ithaca and complete an expanded and accelerated schedule of graduate classes in the first year. During the summer preceding their first year of classes as well as during the winter-break period of the first year, students carry out short research internships in biomedical research laboratories at the New York City participating institutions. The second year of training takes place on the campuses of the New York City participating institutions and gives the students training in cutting edge aspects of biomedical research. In addition to course and lab work in each location, students are also exposed to a series of research seminars to give them maximal exposure to the research environments at the 4 institutions. The program has recruited its third class of entering students bringing the current enrollment to 25 students. The goal of the program is to train chemists in a biomedical science environment, not merely to have students switch from chemistry to biology. The need to examine biomedical problems with the mindset of a chemist is lever more pressing in the post-genomics era. The goal of this project is to help meet the future needs defined in terms of these challenging research problems by training students simultaneously in these two different research disciplines.