Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训项目为纳米生物学领域提供了一种新型的有经验的跨学科科学家，将纳米科学的工具、思想和材料与生物学相结合，为研究问题和开发新的诊断和治疗策略提供了新的方法。这个新的培训计划建立在一个非常成功的跨学科培训计划的基础上，由NIH路线图计划支持为期五年的有限时间。本课程的学员为探索当前纳米科学在高科技和生物技术中的应用以及临床和研究医学的生物医学应用之间的相互作用做好了独特的准备。正如早期分子生物学预示着生物科学和技术的新时代一样，纳米生物学准备利用纳米科学和生物学之间的未知界面。纳米生物学跨学科研究生培训计划（NIGTP）利用了墨西哥湾沿岸联盟凯克中心多机构、多学科培训工作的悠久历史。这使得跨机构培训项目的无缝组织成为可能。汇集了六个机构-贝勒医学院，莱斯大学，休斯顿大学，休斯顿德克萨斯大学健康科学中心，德克萨斯大学安德森癌症中心和加尔维斯顿德克萨斯大学医学分部- NIGTP的教师带来了重要的专业知识

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program provides a new type of experienced interdisciplinary scientist in the field of nanobiology, combining the tools, ideas and materials of nanoscience with biology to enable new approaches to research problems and develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. This new training program builds upon a very successful, interdisciplinary training initiative, supported for a limited duration of five years by the NIH Roadmap Initiative. Trainees from this program are uniquely prepared to explore the interplay between current nanoscience applications in high technology and biotechnology and biomedical applications for clinical and research medicine. Just as early molecular biology heralded a new era in both biological sciences and technology, nanobiology is poised to exploit the adventitious interface between nanoscience and biology. The Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program (NIGTP) takes advantage of the strong history of multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary training efforts in the Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia. This allows seamless organization of trans-institutional training programs. Bringing together six institutions - Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston - the NIGTP faculty bring significant expertise in nanobiology. Fifty faculty are included in this program, with over $63M awarded in research funding related to nanobiology and outstanding graduate research opportunities. Trainees will participate in a highly interdisciplinary curriculum to provide deep knowledge and also the connections between the disciplines. Trainees will also be required to have mentors in two different disciplines, with a mini-sabbatical period in the co-mentor's laboratory as an essential part of the multi-disciplinary training experience. Trainees will also participate in weekly seminars and journal club and will present their research at an annual retreat. RELEVANCE: The interface between nanotechnology, biology, and medicine is a new frontier for scientific exploration and for the creation of new and improved diagnostic and therapeutic tools to detect, treat, cure, and prevent human diseases. This grant would support an established interdisciplinary graduate training program in nanotechnology for biology and medicine.