Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划提供了一种新型的经验丰富的跨学科科学家在纳米生物学领域，结合纳米科学的工具，思想和材料与生物学，使新的方法来研究问题，并开发新的诊断和治疗策略。这个新的培训计划建立在一个非常成功的跨学科培训计划的基础上，由NIH路线图计划提供为期五年的有限支持。从这个程序的学员是独特的准备，以探索当前的纳米科学应用在高科技和生物技术和生物医学应用的临床和研究医学之间的相互作用。正如早期的分子生物学预示着生物科学和技术的新时代，纳米生物学准备利用纳米科学和生物学之间的偶然界面。纳米生物学跨学科研究生培训计划（NIGTP）利用了墨西哥湾沿岸财团凯克中心多机构，多学科培训工作的强大历史。这使得跨机构培训计划的无缝组织成为可能。汇集了六个机构-贝勒医学院，赖斯大学，休斯顿大学，得克萨斯大学健康科学中心在休斯顿，得克萨斯大学M。D.安德森癌症中心和德克萨斯大学医学分支在加尔维斯顿-NIGTP教师带来了重要的专业知识， 纳米生物学50名教师被列入该计划，与纳米生物学和优秀的研究生研究机会相关的研究资金超过6300万美元。学员将参加一个高度跨学科的课程，以提供深入的知识和学科之间的联系。学员还将被要求有两个不同学科的导师，在共同导师的实验室里度过一段短暂的休假时间，作为多学科培训经验的重要组成部分。学员还将参加每周一次的研讨会和期刊俱乐部，并将在年度务虚会上展示他们的研究。 相关性：纳米技术、生物学和医学之间的界面是科学探索和创造新的和改进的诊断和治疗工具以检测、治疗、治愈和预防人类疾病的新前沿。这笔赠款将支持一个既定的跨学科研究生培训计划，在纳米技术的生物学和医学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program provides a new type of experienced interdisciplinary scientist in the field of nanobiology, combining the tools, ideas and materials of nanoscience with biology to enable new approaches to research problems and develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. This new training program builds upon a very successful, interdisciplinary training initiative, supported for a limited duration of five years by the NIH Roadmap Initiative. Trainees from this program are uniquely prepared to explore the interplay between current nanoscience applications in high technology and biotechnology and biomedical applications for clinical and research medicine. Just as early molecular biology heralded a new era in both biological sciences and technology, nanobiology is poised to exploit the adventitious interface between nanoscience and biology. The Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program (NIGTP) takes advantage of the strong history of multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary training efforts in the Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia. This allows seamless organization of trans-institutional training programs. Bringing together six institutions - Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston - the NIGTP faculty bring significant expertise in nanobiology. Fifty faculty are included in this program, with over $63M awarded in research funding related to nanobiology and outstanding graduate research opportunities. Trainees will participate in a highly interdisciplinary curriculum to provide deep knowledge and also the connections between the disciplines. Trainees will also be required to have mentors in two different disciplines, with a mini-sabbatical period in the co-mentor's laboratory as an essential part of the multi-disciplinary training experience. Trainees will also participate in weekly seminars and journal club and will present their research at an annual retreat. RELEVANCE: The interface between nanotechnology, biology, and medicine is a new frontier for scientific exploration and for the creation of new and improved diagnostic and therapeutic tools to detect, treat, cure, and prevent human diseases. This grant would support an established interdisciplinary graduate training program in nanotechnology for biology and medicine.