Training in Maternal and Child Nutrition

描述：康奈尔大学营养科学系提出了一项独特和创新的母婴营养培训计划，这是美国致力于人类营养的最大学术单位。该计划的长期目标是培训个人进行研究，以填补母婴营养综合研究的空白。短期目标是填补孕产妇和儿童营养培训方面的一个重大空白。这些目标将通过培训3名博士后和1名博士后研究人员来实现，以便将基础生物科学知识与在人口一级进行的研究联系起来，并为母亲及其子女确定和解决各种重要的研究问题。为了实现这些目标，受训者将学习母婴营养课程，这门课程以前曾培训过该领域的许多现任和未来领导人，以及一门关于分子营养和发育的课程，以及一门关于赠款撰写的课程。所有受训人员还将与其他对这一主题感兴趣的人一起参加每周一次的研究小组会议。这一培训计划将由营养科学部的10名核心教员提供，每个教员在广泛的学科(包括基因组学、分子生物学、人类生理学和新陈代谢以及流行病学)中拥有不同但互补的技能，并提供充足的研究资金来支持拟议的培训。核心教员在监督受训人员研究方面拥有广泛的合作经验，并在福格蒂国际中心的4项先前赠款和相关培训赠款中建立了孕产妇和儿童营养培训的成功记录。康奈尔大学多个系的相关教员也参与了这项拟议中的项目。该部门为拟议的计划提供了一流的设施，包括设备齐全的实验室和新的动物设施，门诊代谢单元，创新的质谱学设施，以及对统计计算的广泛支持。其他提供相关活动和专业知识的计划包括国际营养计划、康奈尔食品和营养政策计划以及脊椎动物基因组学中心。

DESCRIPTION: A unique and innovative program of training in maternal and child nutrition is proposed at the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, which is the largest academic unit devoted to human nutrition in the country. The long-term objective of this program is to train individuals to conduct research that will fill gaps in integrative research on maternal and child nutrition. The short-term objective is to fill a major gap in training in maternal and child nutrition. These objectives will be accomplished by training 3 predoctoral and 1 postdoctoral researchers to link knowledge from the basic biological sciences to research conducted at the population level as well as to identify and address a variety of important research questions for mothers and their children. To achieve these objectives, trainees will take the course in maternal and child nutrition that has previously trained many current and future leaders in this field as well as a course on molecular nutrition and development and a course on grant writing. All trainees will also participate in a weekly research group meeting along with others interested in this subject. This training program will be delivered by 10 core faculty from the Division of Nutritional Sciences, each with differing yet complementary skills in a wide range of disciplines (including genomics, molecular biology, human physiology and metabolism, and epidemiology), and ample research funding to support the proposed training. Core faculty have extensive experience in collaborating in the supervision of trainee research and a successful record of training in maternal and child nutrition that has been established in 4 prior grants and a related training grant from the Fogarty International Center. Also involved in the proposed program are a group of related faculty from many departments at Cornell. Excellent facilities are available in the Division for the proposed program, including well-equipped laboratories and new animal facilities, an outpatient metabolic unit, an innovative mass spectroscopy facility, and extensive support for statistical computing. Other programs that provide relevant activities and expertise include the Program in International Nutrition, the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, and the Center for Vertebrate Genomics.