Training in Fundamental & Translational Neuroscience

描述(由申请人提供)：此续签申请请求支持六名基础神经科学和翻译神经科学博士后培训。杜克大学将十所学校(包括医学、工程、艺术和科学)和主医院集中在一个毗邻的校区，加强了基础、翻译和临床培训的紧密结合。长期以来，翻译培训一直是杜克大学研究社区的一个标志，该社区获得了首批NIH临床翻译科学奖之一。该项目有来自12个科室的32名教职员工，其中包括5个临床科室。所有参与的教职员工都得到了资助，平均每年资助575,000美元。除两名助理教授外，所有人都拥有R01学位，十人拥有医学博士或医学博士学位。其中五人是执业临床医生。去年，杜克大学脑科学研究所(DIBS)成立了一个新的跨学科研究所，从而加强了神经科学研究的环境。为了加强博士后培训，DIBS每年将从机构资金中额外提供两笔博士后津贴，以补充这里要求的津贴。博士后研究员，无论他们的支持来源如何，都将得到同等的审查和培训。培训补助金支持期限为一年，而受训者将制定研究计划，使他们能够竞争独立的外部资金。 相关性：该计划寻求通过培训下一代神经科学家来完成NINDS的使命--“减轻神经疾病的负担”。具体地说，该计划整合了翻译和基础科学培训，以促进NIH的总体目标-促进转化医学，并使新发现和技术更接近于在现实世界中实施。神经科学的进步有赖于接受过理解该领域并为该领域做出贡献的年轻科学家的培训。

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.