The Cedars-Sinai Immunobiology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：雪松-西奈医学中心（CSMC）提议建立一个新的T32研究项目，将为三名博士后提供为期两年的基础实验室和教学培训资金支持。招收生物医学博士后2名，医学博士后1名。这两类受训者的基本先决条件将是表现出对进行与免疫生物学相关的转化研究的兴趣和能力，以及获得主要校外研究资金，特别是NIH资金的潜力。我们汇集了19位优秀的教师导师，他们将参与博士后学员的专业和科学发展。我们的目标是培养具有必要技能的基础和转化免疫生物学研究人员，使其成为免疫生物学独立学术研究者并进行转化研究。该项目得到了CSMC快速增长的免疫生物学研究实力的支持，包括美国国立卫生研究院支持的教师导师的强大组合，以及在机构层面上创建的雪松-西奈生物医学科学和转化医学研究生项目和雪松-西奈临床学者项目。这些新项目已经成功地吸引了高素质的少数民族博士生和博士后研究实习生进入免疫生物学领域，这预示着CSMC免疫生物学研究的美好未来。我们建议的计划将提供分子，细胞和基础免疫学，人类疾病的病理生物学，免疫系统是一个原因或促成因素，以及转化和临床免疫生物学的学员课程和研讨会。有一个优秀的翻译基础设施牢固地建立起来，拟议的计划将紧密结合在一起。此外，还可以随时接触到临床免疫生物学研究人员，并且所服务的患者群体具有无与伦比的多样性，这对个性化医疗保健的发展将是无价的。我们的目标是将我们的项目融入一流的机制，培养下一代免疫生物学研究者

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) proposes to establish a new T32 research program that will offer funding support for two years of basic laboratory and didactic training to three postdoctoral fellows. Two slots are requested for postdoctoral researchers with a Ph.D. degree in a biomedical field, and one slot is earmarked for an M.D. postdoctoral fellow. Fundamental prerequisites for both categories of trainees will be demonstrated interest and ability in conducting translational research relevant to immunobiology, and the potential for obtaining major extramural research funding, particularly NIH funding. We have assembled 19 outstanding Faculty Mentors who will participate in the professional and scientific development of the Postdoctoral Trainees. Our goal is to train basic and translational immunobiology researchers who have the necessary skills to succeed as independent academic investigators in Immunobiology and conduct translational research. This program is supported by rapidly growing strength in immunobiology research at CSMC, including a very strong portfolio of NIH-supported Faculty Mentors, and on an institutional level by the creation of the Cedars-Sinai Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Translational Medicine and the Cedars-Sinai Clinical Scholars program. These new Programs have already succeeded in attracting highly talented underrepresented minority predoctoral students and postdoctoral research trainees to the field of immunobiology, which bodes well for the future of immunobiology research at CSMC. The program we propose will offer trainees courses and seminars in molecular, cellular and basic immunology, the pathobiology of human diseases where the immune system is a cause or contributing factor, and translational and clinical immunobiology. There is an outstanding translational infrastructure firmly established that the proposed program will closely integrate with. There will also be ready access to clinical immunobiology investigators, and an unparalleled diversity in the patient population served that will be invaluable in the move towards personalized medical care. We aim to meld our program into a first-rate mechanism that will train the next generation of immunobiologic investigators RELEVANCE: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center proposes to offer a new training program in basic and translational immunobiology research to postdoctoral fellows (two postdoctoral Ph.D. fellows and one post-doctoral M.D. fellow) that will offer course work and laboratory training in basic and translational immunobiology at a major medical center renowned for clinical care in immunobiologic diseases.