Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：跨学科生物医学成像培训计划将培养博士前学员成为生物体水平的生物医学成像研究的领导者。由工程师、物理学家、生物学家和临床医生组成的多学科团队 特别是随着体内细胞和分子成像的出现，推动生物医学成像的需要。我们将培养下一代跨学科的生物医学成像科学家和工程师，他们将为这些团队做出贡献并领导他们。我们的培训计划将建立在对教师和成像基础设施的持续、重大的机构、州、联邦和商业投资的基础上。培训助学金将把学生直接置于正在进行的跨学科/多学科研究计划的中心。学员将使用凯斯成像研究中心的成像设施，该中心包括最先进的临床和小动物成像系统，以及指导教师的实验室。博士前实习生将来自高度评价的生物医学工程和物理学系，这两个系都有很长的生物医学成像培训历史。学员将开展将成像技术与生物医学研究相结合的研究项目。每名学员将有两名或更多的导师，代表成像技术和成像的生物/临床应用。我们的教育计划包括一系列成像课程，包括侧重于成像物理、图像分析和重建的课程，以及细胞和分子成像以及纳米医学(纳米治疗和成像试剂)，这是一门专门为纳米粒子治疗学的跨学科培训而设计的新课程。我们将在指定的成像时间内通过一系列不同的活动促进跨学科研究的文化。培训资金主要用于招收一年级研究生，这是我们机构的一个重要需求。我们的T32使我们能够更多地招募妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔。总体而言，与博士后相比，它有助于提高研究生的成本效益，并确保在这一关键需求领域培训国内博士。在不到四年的时间里，我们的T32项目已经成功培养了四名毕业生，他们都有良好的培训记录，都有成功的轨迹。其他学员正在完成该项目，专注于令人兴奋的跨学科成像研究，并具有出色的研究效率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon continuing, significant institutional, state, federal, and commercial investment in faculty and imaging infrastructure. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use imaging facilities in the Case Center for Imaging Research which includes state-of- the-art clinical and small animal imaging systems, along with labs of mentoring faculty. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have two or more mentors representing both imaging technology and biological/clinical applications of imaging. Our educational program includes a portfolio of imaging courses, including ones focusing on imaging physics, image analysis, and reconstruction, as well as Cellular and Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (Nanosized Therapeutics and Imaging Agents), a new course specially designed for interdisciplinary training in nanoparticle theranostics. We will promote a culture of inter- disciplinary research in a series of diverse activities during a designated Imaging Hour. Training funds are mostly used to recruit first year graduate students, a significant need at our institution. Our T32 has enabled us to increase recruitment of women and under-represented minorities. In general, it has helped make graduate students cost effective as compared to post docs and ensured training of domestic PhD's in this area of critical need. In less than four years, our T32 program has already successfully trained four graduates, all with exemplary training records and with a trajectory towards success. Other trainees are moving through the program focusing on exciting interdisciplinary imaging research and with excellent research productivity.