Training Program in Neuroendocrinology of Homeostasis

描述(由申请人提供)： 我们正在请求支持，以继续一个非常成功的培训计划，支持在神经内分泌学方面的博士前和博士后培训，特别关注动态平衡以及控制能量平衡的神经内分泌系统、下丘脑-垂体-肾上腺(HPA)轴和生殖之间的相互作用。辛辛那提大学在过去十年里在神经科学研究方面取得了巨大的增长，这种增长主要集中在神经内分泌学方面。这是该大学明确承诺将神经科学和能量动态平衡作为未来十年增长和研究卓越的主要重点领域的直接结果。在能量平衡、HPA轴和生殖领域的神经内分泌学方面，世界公认的领导者已经被招募到医学院基础科学和临床系的教员队伍中，其中最优秀的是这项培训拨款的导师。这些研究人员非常富有成效，资金充足，有指导成功的博士后和博士后实习生的丰富历史。此外，这组研究人员建立了一套强大的合作关系，并加强了其为在许多项目中工作的研究生和研究员提供指导和研究机会的能力。师资力量使我们能够招聘到优秀的受训人员，这一努力的成果体现在在当前资助期内为受训人员带来的生产力和就业机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting support to continue a highly successful training program that supports predoctoral and postdoctoral training in neuroendocrinology, with a specific focus on homeostasis and the interactions among neuroendocrine systems controlling energy balance, the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and reproduction. The University of Cincinnati has enjoyed tremendous growth in neuroscience research over the past decade, with a major concentration of this growth in neuroendocrinology. This is a direct result of the University's explicit commitment to target neuroscience and energy homeostasis as major focus areas for growth and research excellence over the next decade. World-recognized leaders in neuroendocrinology, in the areas of energy balance, HPA axis and reproduction, have been recruited to the faculty ranks in both basic science and clinical Departments in the College of Medicine, and the best of these are mentors on this training grant. These researchers are extremely productive and well funded with a strong history of mentoring successful pre- and postdoctoral trainees. Furthermore, this group of researchers has established a strong set of collaborations and bolstered its ability to provide mentorship and research opportunities to graduate students and fellows working in numerous programs. The strength of the faculty has enabled us to recruit outstanding trainees, and the fruits of this effort are manifest in the productivity and job opportunities that accrued to the trainees supported in the current funding period.