Training in Fundamental & Translational Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为基础和转化神经科学博士后培训的六名学员提供支持。杜克大学的十所学院（包括医学、工程、艺术和科学）和主要医院位于一个连续的校园内，加强了基础、转化和临床培训的紧密结合。长期以来，转化培训一直是杜克大学研究界的一个标志，杜克大学研究界曾获得首批美国国立卫生研究院临床转化科学奖之一。项目共有12个科室32名教师参与，其中临床科室5个。所有参与的教师都得到了资助，平均每年的资助为57.5万美元。除两位助理教授外，其他教授均拥有博士学位，10位拥有医学博士或医学博士/博士学位。其中5人是执业临床医生。去年，一个新的跨学科研究所——杜克脑科学研究所（Duke institute for Brain Science， DIBS）的建立，加强了神经科学研究的环境。为加强博士后培养，学院每年将从院校经费中额外提供两笔博士后奖学金。博士后研究员，无论他们的资助来源如何，都将接受同等的审查和培训。培训补助金支持为期一年，受训者将开发研究项目，使他们能够竞争独立的校外资助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application requests support for six trainees for Postdoctoral Training in Fundamental and Translational Neuroscience. The close integration of fundamental, translational and clinical training is enhanced at Duke by having its ten schools (including medicine, engineering, and arts and sciences) and its main hospital on a single contiguous campus. Translational training has long been a hallmark of Duke's research community which was awarded one of the first NIH Clinical Translational Science Awards. The program has 32 participating faculty from 12 departments including 5 clinical departments. All participating faculty are funded, with average funding being $575,000 per year. All except two assistant professors hold R01s and ten hold M.D. or M.D. / Ph.D. degrees. Five are practicing clinicians. The environment for neuroscience research was bolstered last year by the creation of a new interdisciplinary institute, the Duke Institute for Brain Science (DIBS). To enhance postdoctoral training, DIBS will provide two additional postdoctoral stipends each year from institutional funds to supplement those requested here. Postdoctoral fellows, regardless of their source of support, will be vetted and trained equivalently. Training grant support will be for one year while trainees develop research programs that will enable them to compete for independent extramural funding. RELEVANCE: The program seeks to accomplish the mission of NINDS- "to reduce the burden of neurological disease" by training the next generation of neuroscientists. Specifically, this program integrates translational and basic science training to further the overall goal of NIH- to promote translational medicine and bring new discoveries and technologies closer to implementation in the real world. Advances in neuroscience rests on young scientists trained to understand and contribute to the field.