Developing Faculty Leaders in the Biomedical Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：达特茅斯医学院的生物化学项目通过培训下一代医生和科学家，促进跨学科知识的发展，以及在其研究领域和为学术界服务方面培养教员领袖，在生物医学事业中发挥关键作用。该计划的教职员工是动脉粥样硬化、肿瘤发生、糖尿病、Pron病和囊性纤维化等基础科学的主要贡献者。我们吸引、激励和培养富有创造力和高度成功的科学家。在过去的二十年里，我们的11名终身生物化学教师中有7名获得了NIH优异奖，两名被选入美国国家科学院。我们是新英格兰北部的卓越科学中心。这项建议的具体目的是恢复我们国家对一名杰出的生物化学助理教授的寻找，并为这名教师出类拔萃提供必要的资源、智力环境和指导。我们将与达特茅斯的其他基础和翻译科学中心合作，进行广泛的搜索，以招募最有前途的候选人。正如我们过去对所有教职员工所做的那样，我们将指导她/他成为一名有效的科学家、同事、教师和培训师。我们期待我们的新教师与达特茅斯的中心、项目和内科科学家合作，推动学科边界的发现，我们将鼓励她/他的专业发展在生物医学事业中承担负责任的领导角色。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biochemistry Program at Dartmouth Medical School performs a critical role in the biomedical enterprise through training the next generation of physicians and scientists, advancing knowledge across multiple disciplines, and developing faculty leaders in their research areas and in service to the academic community. Program faculty members are major contributors to the basic science of atherosclerosis, oncogenesis, diabetes, prion disease, and cystic fibrosis. We attract, inspire, and nurture creative and highly successful scientists. In the last two decades, seven of our 11 tenured Biochemistry faculty have earned NIH MERIT awards and two have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. We are a center of scientific excellence in Northern New England. The specific aim of this proposal is to resume our national search for an outstanding assistant professor of Biochemistry and to provide the resources, intellectual environment, and mentoring necessary for this faculty member to excel. We will conduct a broad search in collaboration with other centers of basic and translational science at Dartmouth to recruit the most promising candidates. As we have done for all our faculty in the past, we will mentor her/him to become an effective scientist, colleague, teacher, and trainer. We expect our new faculty recruit to collaborate with Dartmouth's centers, programs and physician scientists to advance discovery at the boundaries of disciplines, and we will encourage her/his professional development to assume responsible leadership roles in the biomedical enterprise.