CHOP Pediatrics Scholars Program

描述(由申请人提供)：费城儿童医院(CHOP)建议继续NICHD赞助的儿童健康研究职业发展奖(CHRCDA)K12培训计划。我们的目标是通过识别和培训有前途的儿科教员成为成功的内科科学家，增加在分子技术方面具有严格背景和技能的儿科专科医生的数量和效率，并鼓励他们解决对儿童健康和疾病至关重要的问题。我们计划的候选人将主要是CHOP初级教员，他们是从我们的次级专业奖学金计划中任命的，他们是通过在全国范围内寻找最优秀和最聪明的人来确定的。每名候选人将从38名导师中挑选一名未来的导师，其中34名来自CHOP(儿科、病理学、外科)，4名来自宾夕法尼亚大学(Penn)。这些CHOP-CHRCDA导师是根据以下标准选择的：从日耳曼到儿科领域的严谨科学，成功指导和协作研究互动的记录，良好的外部资金记录，以及计划平衡。一般而言，儿科学者将获得两年的资助，以进行其正式研究申请中概述的研究。他们将随时进入一系列全面的研究核心实验室，并将有充足的机会在正式和非正式的环境中与高级和其他初级调查人员交流意见。我们认为CHRCDA是我们之前的儿童健康研究中心(CHRC)拨款的自然继承者：儿科科学的分子方法(MAP)，后者非常成功地催化了有能力进行基础、独立研究的内科科学家的生产。在过去的14年里，我们从不同的专科领域物色和培训了47名儿科学者。我们CHOP-CHRCDA的延续将建立在我们MAP拨款和CHRCDA头四年的传统基础上，利用CHOP作为一家学术儿科机构的巨大优势，拥有一批杰出的子专业研究员、大量经验丰富的导师和尖端研究项目。CHOP和宾夕法尼亚大学提供了一个非常全面、得到良好支持和资源密集型的环境，以及经过证明的培训基础和翻译学术研究人员的记录。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) proposes to continue the NICHD-sponsored Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) K12 Training Program. Our goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of subspecialty pediatricians with a rigorous background and skills in molecular techniques by identifying and training promising pediatric faculty to become successful physician-scientists, and to encourage them to address questions of fundamental importance to health and disease in children. Candidates for our program will be primarily CHOP junior faculty, appointed from our subspecialty fellowship programs, who are identified through national searches for the best and the brightest. Each candidate will identify a prospective mentor from a group of 38 mentors, 34 from CHOP (Pediatrics, Pathology, Surgery) and 4 from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). These CHOP-CHRCDA mentors were chosen by the following criteria: rigorous science in areas germaine to pediatrics, a record of successful mentoring and collaborative research interactions, strong record of extramural funding, and programmatic balance. In general, Pediatric Scholars will be supported for two years to conduct research as outlined in their formal research applications. They will have ready access to a comprehensive array of research core laboratories, and they will have ample opportunity to exchange ideas in both formal and informal settings with senior and other junior investigators. We view the CHRCDA as a natural successor to our prior Child Health Research Center (CHRC) grant: Molecular Approaches to Pediatric Science (MAPS), which was highly successful in catalyzing the production of physician-scientists capable of conducting fundamental, independent research. In the past 14 years, we have identified and trained 47 Pediatric Scholars from a wide range of subspecialties. This continuation of our CHOP-CHRCDA will build on the tradition of our MAPS grant and the first four years of our CHRCDA, taking advantage of the tremendous strengths of CHOP as an academic pediatric institution with an outstanding pool of subspecialty fellows, a large number of experienced mentors, and cutting edge research programs. CHOP and Penn provide a very comprehensive, well-supported and resource-intense environment, as well as a proven track record of training basic and translational academic investigators.