UCLA Dentist-Scientist and Oral Health-Researcher Training Program

该申请寻求5年的支持，为牙科和 颅面研究工作队（T90/R90）到加州大学洛杉矶分校牙科学院。加州大学洛杉矶分校牙科学院是 一个研究密集型和研究承诺的机构，具有悠久的传统和承诺，教育牙科 学生，研究生牙医和其他研究生和专业学生在口腔，牙科和颅面 以理工科为重这个应用程序的目的是建立在我们目前的T32和其他职业的优势 开发和研究培训计划，并专注于使命，提供严格的研究培训 和职业发展，以培养致力于研究的牙医科学家和口腔健康研究人员。 根据我们的集体经验，我们为牙科医生配置了一个综合培训计划， 致力于口腔健康的研究事业。该方案采取了综合系统和环环相扣 这种方法为牙医科学家的职业发展的各个阶段提供了全方位的灵活性。的 该计划的基本核心价值是培养以研究为重点和致力于研究的牙医科学家 和口腔健康科学家的教师，可以成功地竞争国家卫生研究院的资金。博士水平的研究 培训和两到三年专门的全职博士后研究培训经验是强制性的。 牙医科学家和口腔健康研究人员从我们的计划录取将是<$牙科学校准备<$， 准备过渡到科学独立，并在NIH的研究资金竞争力 环境 研究培训将集中在加州大学洛杉矶分校牙科学院的四个科学优势领域： (1)口腔癌和癌症生物学，（2）骨生物学和组织工程，（3）传染病和（4） 干细胞与再生医学.一个跨学科的计划将学员与学校的导师联系起来。 牙科，琼森综合癌症中心，分子生物学研究所，干细胞研究所，加州 纳米系统研究所、工程学院、医学院和公共卫生学院。的 申请人的来源是多样化的，包括外国培训的牙医，包括以下五个培训 （1）牙科博士/博士（DSTP）;（2）牙科医生攻读博士学位;（3）牙科医生攻读博士后研究培训; (4)博士;（5）博士博士后。培训计划将由项目总监，助理 主任、指导委员会、一名全职协调员和一个咨询委员会。

This application seeks 5-year support for an NIDCR-Institutional Training Award for a Dental and Craniofacial Research Workforce (T90/R90) to the UCLA School of Dentistry. The UCLA School of Dentistry is a research-intensive and research-committed institution with a long tradition and commitment to educate dental student, graduate dentists, and other graduate and professional students in oral, dental and craniofacial sciences. The objective of this application is to build on the strengths of our current T32 and other career development and research training programs and focus on the mission to provide rigorous research training and career development to produce ¿research-committed dentist-scientists and oral health-researchers¿. Based on our collective experience, we have configured an integrative training program for dentists who are committed to research careers in oral health. The program takes an integrative systemic and interlocked approach providing full spectrum flexibility at all stages of career development for the dentist-scientist. The foundational core value of the program is to develop research-focused and research-committed dentistscientist and oral health-scientist faculty that can compete successfully for NIH funding. PhD-level research training and a two to three year dedicated full time postdoctoral research training experience is mandatory. Dentist scientists and oral health researchers matriculated from our program will be ¿dental school ready¿ and poised for transition to scientific independence and be competitive for research funding in the NIH environment. Research training will be centered on four areas of scientific strengths at the UCLA School of Dentistry: (1) Oral Cancer & Cancer Biology, (2) Bone Biology & Tissue Engineering, (3) Infectious Diseases and (4) Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine. An interdisciplinary program links trainees to mentors at the School of Dentistry, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular Biology Institute, Stem Cell Institute, California NanoSystem Institute, School of Engineering School, School of Medicine, and the School of Public Health. The pool of applicants is diverse, including foreign-trained dentists, encompassing the following five training tracks: (1) DDS/PhD (DSTP); (2) Dentists pursuing PhD; (3) Dentists pursuing postdoctoral research training; (4) PhD; (5) PhD postdocs. The training program will be administered by the Program Director, Associate Directors, Steering Committee, a full-time coordinator and an Advisory Committee.