UofL Environmental Health Sciences Training Program

描述(由申请人提供) 调查人员对他们的环境健康科学培训计划进行了战略性改变，以回应宣布的NIEHS培训计划的重组和重新定向。参与的中心、研究所和学校以及43名培训教员为尖端基础科学、临床研究、计算科学和公共卫生提供关键资源。环境健康科学合作伙伴关系促成了非常成功的NIEHS环境健康科学培训计划，最近还资助了NIEHS P30环境基因组学和综合生物学中心(CEGIB)。更新建议纳入并整合了几个新的学校、中心和研究所，包括CEGIB、临床和转化科学研究所以及公共卫生和信息科学学院。研究人员提出了一个显著改进的博士前和博士后培训计划，作为环境健康科学跨学科和综合方法的保护伞。该培训计划将支持6名博士后和3名博士后实习生。最初的学生招生和博士前实习生的资助由路易斯维尔大学生物医学科学招生门户的综合项目提供。与第一个周期一样，博士前实习生不会被直接招募到环境健康科学培训计划中。所有教师导师都被要求提名完成了一份已批准的毕业论文提案，并明确了环境健康科学研究重点的受训者。教师导师将被要求提名现有的博士后研究员(例如，那些已经进入临床化学和毒理学转化科学计划的博士后研究员)或从将被招募的实习生中提名。将特别鼓励导师团队(基础和临床科学家或基础和以人群为基础的科学家)强调多学科培训的重要性，并将基础科学成果转化为患者和/或社区。该培训计划促进了有效干预的多学科方法，并与NIH路线图以及NIEHS和路易斯维尔大学的战略计划非常好地结合在一起。 背景 这是路易斯维尔大学环境健康科学培训项目的首次竞争性更新。这一培训计划的目标已在本申请中进行了修订，以成为路易斯维尔大学环境健康科学跨学科和综合方法的更大保护伞。导师的数量从19名导师和13名助理导师增加到43名导师。环境健康科学合作伙伴关系导致了最近资助的NIEHS P30环境基因组学和综合生物学中心(CEGIB)。该培训项目将支持6名博士后和3名博士后学员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The investigators have made strategic changes in their environmental health sciences training program in response to the announced restructuring and redirection of NIEHS training programs. Participating Centers, Institutes, and Schools and the 43 members of the training faculty provide critical resources for cutting edge basic science, clinical research, computational sciences and public health. Environmental health science partnerships have resulted in a very successful NIEHS Training Program in environmental health sciences and recently in the funding of a NIEHS P30 Center for Environmental Genomics and Integrative Biology (CEGIB). The renewal proposal incorporates and integrates several new Schools, Centers, and Institutes, including CEGIB, the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and the School of Public Health and Information Sciences. The investigators propose a substantially improved pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program that serves as an umbrella for interdisciplinary and integrated approaches to environmental health sciences. The training program will support six pre-doctoral and three postdoctoral trainees. Initial student recruitment and funding for pre-doctoral trainees is provided by the University of Louisville Integrated Programs in the Biomedical Sciences recruitment gateway. As in the first cycle, pre-doctoral trainees will not be recruited directly into the environmental health sciences training program. All faculty mentors are asked to nominate trainees who have completed an approved dissertation proposal with a defined focus in environmental health sciences research. Faculty mentors will be asked to nominate either existing postdoctoral fellows (for example those already matriculated into the Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Translational Sciences Program) or from trainees to be recruited. Teams of mentors (basic and clinical scientists or basic and population-based scientists) will be particularly encouraged to emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary training and translation of basic science findings to the patient and/or community. The training program facilitates multidisciplinary approaches for effective intervention and interfaces exceptionally well with the NIH Roadmap as well as with the strategic plans of the NIEHS and the University of Louisville. BACKGROUND This is the first competitive renewal of the University of Louisville Environmental Health Sciences Training Program. The goal of this Training Program has been revised in this application to turn into a bigger umbrella for interdisciplinary and integrated approaches to environmental health sciences at the University of Louisville. The number of mentors has increased from 19 mentors and 13 associate mentors to 43 mentors. Environmental health science partnerships have led to a recently funded NIEHS P30 Center for Environmental Genomics and Integrative Biology (CEGIB). The training program will support 6 pre-doctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees.