Forsyth Postdoctoral Training in Oral Health Research

描述(由申请人提供)：博士后培训是福赛斯研究所的一大优势。在NRSA支持的更新我们的T32博士后培训计划中，我们将在这一优势的基础上，从以下人群中培养一批敬业、训练有素、具有竞争力的研究人员：(A)拥有或没有博士学位的牙医，他们寻求获得适用于口腔和颅面疾病、条件和障碍的协作性、多学科研究培训(基础、翻译或临床)，以及(B)希望在口腔健康研究领域发展事业的博士们，他们将利用最新的科学和合作策略。学员将在生物矿化、周期学、免疫学、分子遗传学、细胞因子生物学和发育与再生生物学中心、临床和翻译生物学中心以及应用分子光医学实验室的20名资金雄厚和出版的导师中找到主要的研究机构。为了强调协作和多学科方法，受训人员将更多地与三个重点领域中的一个(或多个)联系在一起(结构生物学/生物矿化；宿主-生物膜界面，以及临床和转化研究)。该计划将由一个指导委员会指导，该委员会由丹尼尔·史密斯博士(计划主任)和托马斯·范戴克博士(计划联席主任)领导。外部审查将由杰弗里·埃伯索尔博士(肯塔基大学)和罗伯特·奎维博士(罗切斯特大学)的外部咨询委员会提供。博士后培训计划将为七名学员提供支持，每人三年的指导研究。虽然研究部分受到高度重视，但受训者除了他们的板凳/临床研究部分外，还将有一些选修和非选修的机会。这些机会将根据个人的需求和计划量身定做。所有受训者的课程都包括讲授与研讨、写作技巧、成功的教学与演讲，以及科学研究的诚信。将有机会指导新兴的高中和牙科学生科学家。计划制定一个系统的方案，将其应用于该方案并审查受训人员的进展情况，以及非正式和正式的受训人员反馈(当前和后续方案)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Postdoctoral training is a major institutional strength at the Forsyth Institute. In this NRSA-supported renewal of our T32 postdoctoral training program, we will build on that strength by developing a diverse group of committed, highly trained and competitive investigators from a pool of (a) dentists, with or without the PhD, who seek to obtain collaborative, multidisciplinary research training (basic, translational, or clinical) applicable to oral and craniofacial diseases, conditions and disorders and (b) PhD's who desire to develop careers in oral health research that will take advantage of the most current scientific and collaborative strategies. Trainees will find principal research homes with one of 20 well-funded and published mentors in Departments of Biomineralization, Periodontology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, Cytokine Biology and the Center of Development and Regenerative Biology, Center for Clinical and Translational Biology, and the Laboratory of Applied Molecular Photomedicine. To emphasize collaborative and multidisciplinary approaches, trainees will be more strongly associated with one (or more) of three Focus Areas (Structural Biology/Biomineralization; Host-Biofilm Interface, and Clinical and Translational Research). The program will be guided by a Steering Committee, led by Dr. Daniel Smith (Program Director) and Dr. Thomas Van Dyke (Program Co-Director). External review will be provided by an External Advisory Committee of Drs. Jeffrey Ebersole (University of Kentucky) and Robert Quivey (University of Rochester). The postdoctoral training program will provide support for seven trainees with three years each of mentored research. Although strong emphasis is placed on the research component, trainees will have a number of elective and non-elective opportunities apart from their bench/clinical research component. These opportunities will be tailored to the individual's needs and programs. Tutorials and seminars in grantsmanship, grant writing skills, successful teaching and presentation, and integrity in scientific research will be part of all trainees' programs. There will be opportunities for mentoring emerging high school and dental student scientists. A systematic program of application to the program and review of trainees' progress is planned, as is informal and formal trainee feedback (current and post-program).