Training in Reproductive Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：此申请是授予圣路易斯华盛顿大学妇产科的第一份T32证书的续签。T32培训计划的最初目标是通过该计划招聘合格的博士科学家，以进行生殖科学方面的博士后培训，并促进他们在该领域的职业发展和留住。到目前为止，我们项目的三名毕业生中，三人都在与生殖科学直接相关的领域继续在学术界工作。此外，在我们T32项目的头5年里，生殖科学在华盛顿大学的知名度有所提高，除了招聘更多的实习生外，我们还在系内招聘了更多主要从事基础科学研究的初级教员。参与的教职员工之间也建立了新的赠款资助的合作和互动。这个T32项目是我们需要的火花，点燃了我们机构对生殖科学的兴趣。这项申请的长期目标是继续利用华盛顿大学研究界的大量资源和经验，培养和促进在基础研究和翻译研究方面具有双重优势的生殖科学未来领导者的发展。我们的具体目标是挑选和招募有才华的博士后学员，并在实验室提供一个高素质导师的研究培训职位，还可以选择临床导师。该研究项目建立在7个不同系的15名优秀教师导师的共同努力下。在我们的T32培训计划中有五个小组，反映了我们计划的不同专业知识：发育生物学、干细胞/生殖细胞生物学、分子内分泌学和老龄化、子宫内膜癌遗传学和母胎生物学。一个高度结构化和精心设计的项目将使受训人员有机会在华盛顿大学一流的科学环境中成熟为跨学科的生殖科学家。学员将在导师的监督下，积极参与实验室正在进行的研究。此外，医学部和医学园区的资源也被纳入到这个项目中，作为学员的职业发展工具，如助学金和手稿写作，以及与高度致力于博士后培训和经验丰富的导师的一对一互动。此外，临床指导也提供给那些对他们的研究在5个领域中的任何一个领域的临床应用感兴趣的学员。华盛顿大学医学院新成立的研究生事务办公室也为这些人提供了极好的支持和资源。我们现行的少数民族招募计划涵盖了详细的战略，并概述了我们在这一重要组成部分所作的严格努力。如果成功实现我们的目标，该计划将培养出训练有素、有竞争力的生殖科学家，他们将以扎实的、基础的科学方法探索临床、循证问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a renewal of the first T32 awarded to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis. The original goal of this T32 Training program was to recruit qualified PhD scientists through this program to undergo postdoctoral training in Reproductive Science and to facilitate their career development and retention in this field. Of the three graduates of our program so far, all three are continuing on in academia in fields directly related to reproductive science. In addition, over these first 5 years of our T32 Program, the visibility of Reproductive Sciences at Washington University has grown, and in addition to recruiting more trainees we have recruited more junior faculty within the Department who primarily perform basic science research. New grant-funded collaborations and interactions among participating faculty also have been established. This T32 program was the spark we needed to ignite interest in reproductive science at our institution. The long-term objective of this application is to continue to take advantage of the significant resources and experience within the Washington University research community to train and promote the development of future leaders in Reproductive Science with dual strengths in basic and translational research. Our specific aim is to select and recruit talented, postdoctoral PhD trainees and offer a research training position in the laboratory of a highly qualified mentor with the option of clinical mentorship as well. The research program is built upon collaborative efforts among 15 outstanding faculty mentors in 7 different departments. Five subgroups exist within our T32 training program reflecting the diverse expertise of our program: Developmental Biology, Stem Cell/Germ Cell Biology, Molecular Endocrinology and Aging, Endometrial Cancer Genetics and Maternal Fetal Biology. A highly structured and thoughtfully designed program will allow trainees the opportunity to mature as interdisciplinary reproductive scientists in a superb scientific setting at Washington University. Trainees will actively participate in ongoing research in a laboratory under the mentor's supervision. In addition, resources of the department and the medical campus are incorporated in this program as career development tools for trainees, such as grant and manuscript writing and one-on-one interaction with mentors highly committed to and experienced in postdoctoral training. In addition, a clinical mentorship is also available to those trainees interested in the clinical application of their research in any of the 5 areas. The newly founded Office of Post Graduate Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine also provides excellent support and resources to these individuals. Our active Minority Recruitment Plan covers detailed strategies and outlines our rigorous efforts at this important component. If successful in our aim, this program will produce well-trained and competitive reproductive scientists who will pursue clinical, evidence-based questions with a solid, basic science-derived approach.