Cellular Approaches to Tissue Engineering and Regeneration

描述（由申请人提供）：匹兹堡大学寻求继续支持我们的多学科和创新的博士前培训计划在细胞方法组织工程和再生（CATER）。CATER培训计划结合了来自众多学科的教师和研究专业知识，这些学科将联合收割机组织工程与人类疾病和再生的分子和细胞疗法相结合。组织工程和再生医学是两个不可分割的交叉学科领域，汇集了来自人类生物学，工程学，医学和应用技术的科学家，专注于人体组织的修复和替换。再生医学中最重要的挑战之一是在每个使能学科中培养下一代专家，这些专家必须接受培训，认识到解决组织工程问题所需的跨学科挑战和方法。为了解决这个问题，我们开发了CATER博士前培训计划，以填补更传统的部门为重点的研究培训计划中经常存在的空白。CATER培训计划的目标是提供一个坚实的基础，在此基础上建立一个富有成效的和独立的职业生涯，在细胞和组织为基础的治疗人类疾病和损伤。这一目标是通过一个高度协调和指导的跨学科培训计划与必修和选修课程，研究活动和专业培训机会相结合来实现的。我们短暂的历史（前5年的资金支持）证明我们正在实现这些培训目标。CATER培训计划结合了组织工程和疾病与治疗的细胞和分子生物学方面的多样化培训教师和课程，为学生提供了丰富的教育经验和更多的培训机会，而不是在更传统或个别的大学部门或课程中获得。CATER培训计划为学生提供我们认为在细胞和组织工程的快速发展和高度跨学科领域取得成功所必需的培训和专业知识。匹兹堡大学的细胞方法组织工程和再生（CATER）博士前培训计划教育和培训再生医学和组织工程的下一代科学家。我们的多学科培训方法创造了可以将再生医学从实验室推向临床的研究人员，为人类疾病和损伤提供新的疗法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Pittsburgh seeks continued support for our multidisciplinary and innovative pre-doctoral training program in Cellular Approaches to Tissue Engineering and Regeneration (CATER). The CATER training program combines faculty and research expertise from a multitude of disciplines that combine tissue engineering with molecular and cellular approaches of therapies for human disease and regeneration. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are two interdisciplinary fields that are inseparably coupled, bringing together scientists from human biology, engineering, medicine and applied technologies to focus on the repair and replacement of human tissues. One of the most significant challenges in regenerative medicine is developing the next generation of experts in each of the enabling disciplines that must be trained cognizant of the crossdisciplinary challenges and approaches required to solve tissue engineering problems. To address this issue we developed the CATER pre-doctoral training program to fill the gaps that often exist in more traditional departmentally-focused research training programs. The goal of the CATER training program is to provide a solid foundation upon which to build a productive and independent career in cellular and tissue based therapy for human disease and injury. This goal is accomplished via a highly coordinated and mentored interdisciplinary training program with a combination of required and elective courses, research activities and specialized training opportunities. Our short history (first 5-years of funding support) provides evidence that we are accomplishing these training objectives. The CATER training program, combining diverse training faculty and coursework in tissue engineering and cellular and molecular biology of disease and therapy, provides a rich educational experience and more numerous training opportunities for students than obtained in more traditional or individual university departments or programs. The CATER training program provides students the training and expertise we believe is necessary to succeed in the rapidly evolving and highly interdisciplinary fields of cellular and tissue based engineering. The University of Pittsburgh pre-doctoral training program in Cellular Approaches to Tissue Engineering and Regeneration (CATER) educates and trains the next generation of scientists in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Our multidisciplinary training approach creates researchers that can drive regenerative medicine from the laboratory to the clinic, providing new therapies for human disease and injury.