Training in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

凯斯西储大学地理医学和传染病培训项目（CWRU）每年为4名博士后博士或博士研究员提供严格的研究培训。自1977年开始以来，该方案一直强调跨学科的研究培训，以了解和解决传染病问题，特别是由在免疫学、遗传学、分子生物学、生物化学、流行病学、生物统计学、临床试验设计和临床结果方面具有互补专业知识的科学家共同指导，因为它们与感染的发病机制、传播和控制有关。项目教师包括来自10个部门和3个中心的28名导师，所有这些都位于CWRU校园的健康科学综合大楼和路易斯B.斯托克斯退伍军人管理医疗中心。受训者的指导过程包括参加课程作业、个人实验室研究会议和定期研讨会，以及参加国内和国际会议。所有导师都有独立的NIH或其他校外研究基金，并与CWRU促进传染病研究的相关机构密切合作- NIH结核病研究单位，艾滋病研究中心，艾滋病临床试验单位，中西部地区生物防御和新发传染病研究卓越中心，以及抗菌素耐药性和流行病学中心。该项目的28位导师中有4位是女性，2位是少数族裔。该方案强调在美国和发展中国家具有重大卫生意义的传染病——抗细菌耐药性、结核病、疟疾、艾滋病毒、慢性蠕虫感染（包括“被忽视的热带病”丝虫病和血吸虫病）和新发传染病。一个独特的特点是有机会参加在海外的研究项目导师正在进行的nih资助的项目，如乌干达，肯尼亚，巴布亚新几内亚，巴西和南非。美国的受训者还可以与参加CWRU福格蒂国际中心在乌干达和巴布亚新几内亚支持的伙伴关系项目的外国合作者进行互动。17人现在担任学术职位，获得NIH或其他研究资助，或继续接受研究培训。该方案特别寻求从代表性不足的少数民族以及残疾人和处境不利的个人中招募受训人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases Training Program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) provides rigorous research training for 4 post-doctoral M.D. or Ph.D. fellows per year. Since its beginning in 1977, the Program has emphasized interdisciplinary training in research to understand and solve infectious disease problems, particularly co-mentorship by scientists with complementary expertise in immunology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trial design and clinical outcomes as they relate to the pathogenesis, transmission and control of infection. Program faculty includes 28 mentors from 10 departments and 3 centers, all located within the health sciences complex on the CWRU campus and the Louis B. Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center. Trainees are mentored by a process that includes participation in coursework, individual lab research meetings and regular seminars, and attending national and international meetings. All mentors have independent NIH or other extramural research funding, and work closely with related structures at CWRU that promote infectious diseases research -the NIH Tuberculosis Research Unit, Center for AIDS Research, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Midwest Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, and the Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology. Four of the Program's 28 mentors are women, and 2 are an underrepresented minority. The Program emphasizes infectious diseases that have great health significance in the United States and the developing world - anti-bacterial drug resistance, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, chronic worm infections that include the "Neglected Tropical Diseases" filariasis and schistosomiasis and emerging infections. A unique feature is the opportunity to participate in research at overseas sites where Program mentors have ongoing NIH-funded projects, e.g. Uganda, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and South Africa. U.S. trainees may also interact with foreign collaborators participating in CWRU Fogarty International Center-supported partnership programs in Uganda and Papua New Guinea. 22 postdoctoral fellows completed their training between 1998 and 2008; 17 now hold academic positions, have been awarded NIH or other research grants or are continuing with research training. The Program especially seeks to recruit trainees from underrepresented minorities as well as disabled and disadvantaged individuals. RELEVANCE: The Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease Training Program will educate the next generation of scientists charged with developing strategies to treat and control infections of global significance, particularly TB, AIDS, malaria, antimicrobial drug resistance, worm diseases, and emerging infections that may be introduced or spread in the United States.