Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：内分泌学和生殖生理学(ERP)研究生培训计划是一个跨学科的内分泌计划，主要关注生殖生物学和生理学，与母婴健康以及宫内规划和成人发病疾病的起源直接相关。这是利用从干细胞和分子生物学到比较生理学的多学科方法实现的。2004年，我们开始了目前的T32资助，此后在进一步发展我们的培训计划方面取得了实质性进展，特别是在专业发展和少数族裔招聘方面。我们第一批毕业生的成绩在出版物和就业方面都很突出，并在下面详细介绍。同样，出版物一级的生产力也很突出。我们在建立NIH正式声明的最适合培训的方面也取得了实质性进展，即最佳翻译研究培训体验发生在一个强调多学科和跨学科团队中翻译部分的环境中，其成员既是博士又是博士。为此，我们最近加入了在企业资源规划内建立的新开发的学位研究金轨道上攻读研究生学位的MD研究员的行列。虽然医学博士候选人不是这份T32博士后申请支持的候选人，但我们希望评审人员知道它的存在，我们现在正在为这些博士后学员在另一份T32申请中申请额外的支持。我们相信，所有医学博士和博士生都能从手头研究项目的集体“翻译对话”中受益，这种对话将促进未来翻译工作的实践模式和理论模式的发展。最终结果是一个更强大、更有活力的培训环境，招聘更多的教师，让所有人都能享受。如果我们要在对研究人员的支持减少而对临床医生的要求增加的情况下保持未来的跨学科翻译研究团队成员，这种混合的培训环境是非常必要的。最后，我们继续修订和扩大我们招收多样性学生的倡议，为此目的，我们现在一直与新的负责多样性倡议的助理主任密切合作，建立联系和更有效的战略，以招募和支持这些受训人员。这是一个巨大的成功，因此该项目处于有利地位，可以在未来五年继续成为全国排名的生殖生理学培训中心。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology (ERP) Graduate Training Program is an interdisciplinary endocrine program with a major focus on reproductive biology and physiology, with direct relevance to maternal and child health as well as intrauterine programming and the origins of adult onset disease. This is achieved using multidisciplinary approaches from stem cells and molecular biology to comparative physiology. In 2004 we began our current T32 funding and have since made substantial progress in the further development of our training program, particularly with regard to both professional development and minority recruitment. The outcomes of our first students to graduate have been outstanding both in publications and placement and are detailed fully below. Likewise productivity at the level of publications has been outstanding. We have also made substantial progress in building that which NIH has formally stated is optimal for training, i.e., that the best translational research training experience occurs in an environment that emphasizes the translational component in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team, the members of which are both MDs and PhDs. To that end we have recently been joined by MD fellows undergoing graduate degree study in a newly developed Degree Fellowship Track created within ERP. While MD candidates are not candidates for support under this T32 Predoctoral application, we wish the reviewers to be aware of its existence and that we are now in the process of applying for additional support for these MD postdoctoral trainees in a separate T32 application. We believe all MD and PhD trainees benefit from a collective 'translational dialogue' of the research projects in hand and such a dialogue promotes the development of both practical and theoretical models for translational work in the future. The end result is a stronger, more vibrant training environment with the recruitment of additional faculty, for all to enjoy. This blended training environment is very much needed if we are to maintain a future pool of interdisciplinary translational research team members at a time of otherwise reduced support for research faculty and increasing demands on clinicians to be in the clinics. Finally we have continued to revise and expand our initiatives to recruit students of diversity and to that end we now have been working in close partnership with our new Assistant Director for Diversity Initiatives to create links and more effective strategies to both recruit and support these trainees. This has been an outstanding success and the program is therefore well placed for continuing as a nationally ranked training center for Reproductive Physiology over the next five years.