Translational Research Training Program in Gerontology and Geriatrics

描述（由申请人提供）：约翰霍普金斯大学医学院老年医学和老年医学转化研究培训计划的主要目标是教育和培训具有医学博士学位的合格个人，使其成为老年医学和老年医学的独立研究者。在奖学金培训结束时，候选人将为在大学医学中心的老年医学部门从事生物医学和临床转化研究的学术生涯做好充分的准备。为了培养下一代的独立科学家和临床研究人员，他们将站在老龄化转化研究的前沿，老年医学和老年医学部门的培训包括一个核心课程，培养特定的技能，指导进一步发展这些技能，并为学术转化研究人员提供职业发展和生存技能。为了实现研究培训计划的目标，研究员在约翰霍普金斯大学全职教师的指导下，经常与老年学研究中心（GRC）的高级工作人员合作，参与实验室和临床转化研究培训，该中心是国家老龄研究所（NIA）的主要校内研究项目。这种指导的研究经历包括与老年病学/老年学项目教师的结构化会议，以及根据受训者的经验和兴趣量身定制的监督研究项目，目标是产生一个或多个第一作者，同行评审的出版物和资助申请，以支持进一步的研究。在美国和世界老年人的比例不断增长，需要培训未来的研究人员在老年学和老年病学。本申请为本项目未来五年的资金申请，其目标是培养未来的研究人员和学术领袖，他们将促进科学知识在学科和研究应用领域（人口研究、基础和临床科学、卫生保健政策和交付）之间的转化，以应对改善老年人健康的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of the Translational Research Training Program in Gerontology and Geriatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is to educate and train qualified individuals with MD and/or PhD degrees to become independent investigators in geriatric medicine and gerontology. By the end of fellowship training, candidates are rigorously prepared for success in embarking on academic careers in biomedical and clinical translational research in aging within a geriatrics division of a university medical center. In order to train the next generation of independent scientists and clinical investigators who will be at the forefront of translational research on aging, the Division of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology's training involves a core curriculum that develops specific skill sets, and mentoring that further develops those skill sets and imparts career development and survival skills for the academic translational researcher. To achieve the goals of the Research Training Program, fellows experience early and extensive involvement in laboratory and clinical translational research training under the tutelage of full-time faculty members at Johns Hopkins, often in collaboration with senior staff of the Gerontology Research Center (GRC), the major intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This mentored research experience includes structured meetings with Program Faculty in geriatrics/gerontology and a supervised research project tailored to the trainee's experiences and interests, with the goal of producing one or more first- authored, peer-reviewed publications and a grant application to support further research. The growing proportion of older adults in the United States and the world underlies the need to train future researchers in Gerontology and Geriatrics. This application is a request for the next five years of funding for this program, whose goal is to prepare the future researchers and academic leaders who will facilitate the translation of scientific knowledge between disciplines and venues of research application (population studies; basic and clinical science; health care policy and delivery) in order to meet the challenge of improving the health of the elderly.