ADVANCED GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM IN NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

描述（由申请人提供）：哥伦比亚大学现有的神经生物学和行为学博士学位课程，要求资助一项培训计划，以支持高级研究生在第三、第四和第五年的跨学科研究培训和专业职业发展。神经科学是当代生物医学研究中发展最迅速的领域之一，其中的基础发现越来越多地来自跨学科和合作研究，并正在转化为临床进展。该计划源于对神经科学高级研究生的特殊相关性和重要性的培训机会的认识，以及为生物医学和神经科学研究准备，寻找和维持职业生涯的不断变化的环境。在此背景下，计划的主题将是鼓励和支持我们的学生进行新颖的、跨学科的、合作的论文研究项目，并为他们提供专业的职业发展培训。研究培训将由该项目的88名教师提供，其中包括神经科学各个领域的领导者，他们的研究兴趣广泛。为了进一步促进跨学科培训，学生将被支持短期访问纽约地区以外的实验室，以学习和应用当地无法获得的新技术。加强专业职业发展培训将包括为我们项目的高级研究生在该领域新设立的课程，增加现有的转化神经科学课程，并为学生提供机会，从我们机构内合适的医生/科学家那里获得转化神经科学职业指导。整个神经生物学和行为项目的学生总数约为80人。最初要求支持4名高级学生，每年增加1名学生，到第5年达到8名学生。学生在前两年的密集教学经验后将有资格参加该计划。任命将是竞争性的，并将由指定的教员委员会进行选拔。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for a training program to support the interdisciplinary research training and professional career development of advanced graduate students in their third, fourth and fifth years of an existing University-wide, degree-granting Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University. Neuroscience is one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary biomedical research and one in which basic findings are increasingly arising from interdisciplinary and collaborative research and are being translated into clinical advances. The program arises from the recognition that there are training opportunities that are of special relevance and importance to advanced graduate students in neuroscience and that there is a changing landscape for preparing for, finding and sustaining careers in biomedical and neuroscience research. In this context, the themes of the program will be to encourage and support our students in carrying out novel, interdisciplinary and collaborative thesis research projects not easily supported by existing programs and to provide them with professional career development training. Research training will be provided by the 88 faculty in the program, including leaders in various areas of neuroscience with a broad span of research interests. To further facilitate interdisciplinary training, students will be supported for short visits to laboratories outside of the New York area for the purpose of learning and applying novel techniques not available locally. Enhanced professional career development training will include a newly instituted course in this area for advanced graduate students in our program, the augmentation of a currently existing course in translational neuroscience, and creation of opportunities for students to receive guidance on careers in translational neuroscience from appropriate physician/scientists within our institution. Total student enrollment in the overall Neurobiology and Behavioral Program is approximately 80. Support is requested for 4 advanced students initially, with a yearly increment of 1 student to reach a total of 8 by year 5. Students will be eligible for the program after the first two years of intensive instructional experience. Appointment will be competitive and selection will be by a designated faculty committee. RELEVANCE: The goal of the proposed program is to support novel, interdisciplinary and collaborative research as well as professional career development for advanced students in neuroscience. Neuroscience is one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary biomedical research and one in which basic findings are being translated into clinical advances in neurological and psychiatric disorders.