Training Grant in Dermatology

描述(由申请者提供)：该皮肤病学培训计划将支持基础和临床皮肤研究的博士后和博士后培训。由于培训学院在生物工程、纳米技术和光学以及传统生物学和临床研究方面拥有专业知识，因此提供的培训在皮肤科领域具有独特的优势。培训教师是根据他们在指导方面的成功而被挑选出来参加的。以皮肤生物学为基础的研究得到了各种实验室方法的支持，这些方法涉及蛋白质化学、重组DNA技术、脂质生物化学和基因调控，使受训人员能够获得广泛的实验室专业知识。对临床研究感兴趣的学员与临床转化科学中心合作进行培训，并可获得公共卫生硕士学位。最后，对技术和医学之间的接口感兴趣的学员有机会在未来健康中心的赞助下学习，在那里他们的研究可以与工程学、光学、生物化学和生物工程系合作，专注于皮肤病的跨学科应用。博士后培训和博士前培训都需要支持，以吸引非生物导向的受训人员参与皮肤导向的项目。博士前课程最好为期五年，以学术生涯为重点。从光学、工程、生物化学和生物工程系博士前培训项目招收的对皮肤研究感兴趣的学生中挑选出高素质的候选人。博士后课程至少为两年，最好是三年。这些学员是从那些直接申请我们的研究小组或我们的皮肤病住院医师计划的人中识别出来的。通过使用多学科指导小组以及确定的课程向候选人提供培训。该培训计划支持的多学科方法旨在扩大皮肤病学现有的研究领域，同时也为其他学科的个人提供培训，这些个人通常不参与皮肤研究，以扩大我们作为一个领域的研究能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program in dermatology will support pre- and post-doctoral candidate training in basic and clinical skin research. The training provided fulfills a unique niche in dermatology because the training faculties have expertise in bioengineering, nanotechnology and optics as well as traditional biology and clinical research. Training faculty have been selected for participation based on their success in mentoring. Skin biology-based studies are supported by diverse laboratory approaches involving protein chemistry, recombinant DNA technology, lipid biochemistry and gene regulation enabling a trainee to gain broad laboratory expertise. Trainees interested in Clinical research train in collaboration with the Clinical Translational Sciences Center and can obtain a Master's degree in Public Health. Finally, trainees interested in the interface between technology and medicine have the opportunity to study under the auspices of the Center For Future Health, where their research can focus on interdisciplinary applications for skin disease in collaboration with the faculty in Engineering, Optics, Biochemistry and Bioengineering. Both post-doctoral training and pre-doctoral training support is needed to entice non-biologically oriented trainees to skin-oriented projects. The pre-doctoral program is preferably five years in length with a focus on an academic career. Highly qualified candidates are selected from students enrolled in the predoctoral training programs of the departments of Optics, Engineering, Biochemistry and Bioengineering who express an interest in skin research. The postdoctoral program is a minimum of two, preferably three years in length. These trainees are identified from those applying directly to our research group or to our dermatology residency program. Training is provided to candidates through the use of multidisciplinary mentorship teams as well as defined curricula. The multidisciplinary approach this training program supports is intended to augment existing research areas within dermatology, but also to provide training to individuals from other disciplines not commonly participating in skin research to broaden our research capacity as a field.