Diabetes, Endocrine, and Metabolic Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：这是我们长期以来在糖尿病，内分泌和代谢疾病方面的培训计划的竞争性更新。在最近的资助周期中，每年有4名博士后获得资助。共有11名学员在9个不同的实验室工作。该项目旨在容纳博士科学家以及具有医学博士或医学博士学位的内科科学家，其中大多数是通过宾夕法尼亚大学内分泌学、糖尿病和代谢临床奖学金项目进入的。在过去四年中，由T32资助的博士后学员中，有一人在默克公司担任教职，两人分别在宾夕法尼亚大学和长岛犹太/霍夫斯特拉大学担任初级教职，还有一人在学术环境中从事私人执业。在下一个期间，我们请求额外支助，以增加一名研究员。我们还首次要求提供足够的资金，支持三名在该项目领域工作的博士生在研究生院的第三至第五年。目前，在我们的培训师指导的实验室里，有29名学生正在攻读他们的博士论文，其中大多数集中在与T32任务相关的问题上，并且没有得到培训经费的支持。5个（26%）是代表性不足的少数民族。我们的24名培训教师在7个医学院系任职，其中教授14人，副教授7人，助理教授3人。培训教员中有六名女性，一名非裔美国人。在过去的两个资助周期中，6名教员被取消了资助，12名教员被任命参加培训资助。培训资助教师为项目带来了2细胞发育和功能，激素作用，生理学，糖尿病并发症，人类和模式生物遗传学，转录调节，面向患者的研究，流行病学和生物统计学方面的专业知识。这个培训项目继续为那些致力于糖尿病、内分泌学和新陈代谢研究的科学家提供极好的准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competitive renewal for our longstanding Training Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases. During the most recent funding cycle, 4 postdoctoral fellows were supported each year. A total of 11 trainees working in 9 different labs have been supported. The program is designed to accommodate both Ph.D. scientists as well as physician scientists with M.D. or M.D, Ph.D. degrees, of whom most enter through the Penn Clinical Fellowship Program in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Of the postdoctoral trainees supported by this T32 during the last 4 years who are no longer in training, one has a staff position at Merck, two have junior faculty positions at University of Pennsylvania and Long Island Jewish/Hofstra University, respectively and one is in private practice in an academic environment. For the next period, we request additional support to add one more fellow. We also request, for the first time, sufficient funds to support three predoctoral students working in the areas of this program during their third through fifth years of graduate school. At present, there are in laboratories directed by our trainers 29 students working towards their Ph.D. theses, the majority focusing on problems relevant to the mission of this T32 and unsupported by a training grants. Five (26%) are underrepresented minorities. Our 24 training faculty have primary appointments in seven Medical School Departments and consist of 14 professors, 7 associate professors, and assistant 3 professors. Six members of the training faculty are woman and one is African-American. In the last two funding cycles, six faculty members have been removed from the grant and twelve have been appointed to the training grant. Training grant faculty bring to the program expertise in 2-cell development and function, hormone action, physiology, diabetic complications, genetics in humans and model organisms, transcriptional regulation, patient oriented research, epidemiology and biostatistics. This training program continues to provide superb preparation for those scientists committed to careers in research into diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism.