Career Development and Training Program

职业发展计划的目标是在他们职业生涯的早期阶段招聘调查人员 专注于潜在生物疗法病原体的研究。这项研究包括基础生物学的研究。 生物体，对这些制剂的免疫反应，将最终在新的 疫苗、治疗学或诊断学，以及涉及疫苗效力研究的临床调查 已定义的患者群体。初级教师研究项目奖旨在吸引教师 研究人员，他们正在建立自己感兴趣的研究领域和专业知识， 与生物防御相关的调查。初级学院研究项目将资助研究人员打算 认真致力于这些调查领域，谁的项目有潜力 随后，成功竞争传统的国立卫生研究院(NIH)的资金。这个 博士后奖学金也是为了吸引研究人员，他们正在 建立他们感兴趣的研究领域和专业知识，进入与生物防御相关的调查。每个人 受训人员在现有机构中的一名资深调查员的指导下从事一个研究项目 在NBC内，或来自NIH区域II内任何机构的调查人员，该机构拥有以下资助项目 提供合适的科研培训环境。预计这些研究员将发展独立性 在实验设计方面，熟练掌握与项目相关的文献资料，并做好准备 在奖学金期满时进行原创性研究。 此外，NBC将继续资助团体职业发展活动。第一年，职业生涯 发展计划将举办一次全国性的会议，邀请所有十个地区的初级教职“校友” 他们通过各自地区的职业发展计划获得了支持。博士后研究员 由获得教职并发起独立研究项目的项目支持 也会被邀请。会议的目的将是深入了解这种支持是如何 对他们的研究事业的发展做出了贡献，目的是在以下情况下修改计划 在必要的地方。未来的小组活动将包括核心研讨会、应急培训经验 高风险实验室的计划和练习，以及生物和实验室的培训计划课程 处理选定的代理。

The objective of the Career Development Program is to recruit investigators at early stages of their careers into research focused on potential biothreat pathogens. This research includes the basic biology of the organisms, immune responses to these agents, developmental research that will eventuate in novel vaccines, therapeutics, or diagnostics, and clinical investigation involving studies of vaccine efficacy in defined patient populations. Junior Faculty Research Project awards are intended to attract faculty researchers, who are in the process of establishing their research areas of interest and expertise, into biodefense-related investigations. The Junior Faculty Research Projects will fund investigators intending to make a serious commitment to these investigational areas, and whose projects have the potential subsequently to compete successfully for traditional National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. The Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards are also intended to attract researchers, who are in the process of establishing their research areas of interest and expertise, into biodefense-related investigations. Each trainee works on a research project under an established investigator from among the institutions currently within the NBC, or an investigator from any institution within NIH Region II having a funded program that provides an appropriate research training environment. The fellows are expected to develop independence in experimental design, technical proficiency, mastery of the literature related to the project, and be prepared at the conclusion of the fellowship period to undertake original research. In addition, the NBC will continue to fund Group Career Development Activities. For year one, the Career Development Program will mount a national conference inviting Junior Faculty "alumni" from all ten Regions who have received support through their Regions' Career Development Programs. Postdoctoral Fellows supported by the Programs who have gained faculty positions and initiated independent research programs will also be invited. The purpose of the conference will be to gain insight into how this support has contributed to the development of their research careers, with the intent being to modify the Programs if and where necessary. Future group activities will include core workshops, training experience for emergency planning and exercising for high risk laboratories, and training program courses in the biology and laboratory handling of select agents.