Boston University Inflammatory Disorders Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的培训计划将为博士前和博士后学员提供坚实的免疫学学术背景，重点是多学科方法来研究炎症的常见机制。培训将包括相关的课程工作，定期安排的研讨会和期刊俱乐部，以及严格的实验室培训，目的是为我们的学员在与本计划目标相关的研究中的职业生涯做好准备。波士顿大学拥有一支优秀的教师队伍，他们对炎症性疾病长期感兴趣，是波士顿大学炎症性疾病培训计划（BU-TPID）的成员。此外，最近的招聘工作已经形成了一个临界质量的既定研究人员，因此，本申请建议建立一个综合的培训计划，为博士前学生和博士后研究员在炎症性疾病。除了他们共同的研究兴趣，这些院系中的许多已经有大量的合作互动的证据，包括NIH的支持。教师的研究兴趣包括三个广泛的研究领域，包括1）病原体引起的炎症; 2）慢性非传染性炎症性疾病;和3）治疗和预防策略。BU-TPID培训学院都是目前NIH的赠款接受者，由10个NIH研究所提供资金，作为一个群体，他们有着丰富的培训历史。作为一个整体，这一群体在其各自领域享有国家和国际承认。作为这项培训赠款的一部分，核心培训教师还将参与指导其他初级教师。BU-TPID教师代表了广泛的部门隶属关系，包括医学，微生物学，病理学，生理学和生物物理学在波士顿大学医学院，环境卫生在波士顿大学公共卫生学院系，口腔生物学和牙周病学系在牙科医学院和生物医学工程系在波士顿大学学院工程. 该方案的主要目标是：（1）招收最高质量的学生，包括代表性不足的少数民族学生;（2）为这些学员提供炎症性疾病的多学科背景，并在特定研究课题上进行强化实验室培训;（3）教授学员批判性思维技能以及如何提出相关和可行的研究问题; 4）向这些学员灌输道德行为意识; 5）帮助学员发展有效的书面和口头沟通技能; 6）促进学员和培训计划教师之间的协作互动; 7）指导初级教师进行博士前和博士后培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed training program will provide predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees with a solid academic background in immunology with emphasis on multi disciplinary approaches to study common mechanisms of inflammation. Training will include relevant course work, regularly scheduled seminars and journal clubs, and rigorous laboratory training with the goal of preparing our trainees for careers in research related to the goals of this program. Boston University has an outstanding group of faculty with long standing interests in inflammatory disorders who are members of the Boston University Training Program in Inflammatory Disorders (BU-TPID). In addition, recent recruitment efforts have resulted in the formation of a critical mass of established investigators and accordingly this application proposes to establish an integrated training program for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in inflammatory disorders. In addition to their common research interests, many of these faculties already have substantial evidence for collaborative interactions including NIH support. Faculty research interests encompass three broad research areas including 1) Pathogen induced inflammation; 2) Chronic non-communicable inflammatory disorders; and 3) Therapeutics and preventative strategies. The BU-TPID Training Faculty all are current NIH grant recipients with funding from 10 NIH Institutes, and who, as a group have had substantial training history. As a whole this group enjoys national and international recognition in their respective fields. As part of this training grant the Core training faculty will also be involved in mentoring additional junior faculty members. The BU-TPID faculty represent a broad range of departmental affiliations, including the Departments of Medicine, Microbiology, Pathology, Physiology and Biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine, the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, the Department of Oral Biology and Peridontology at the School of Dental Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Boston University College of Engineering. The major goals of the program will be to 1) Recruit and enroll students of the highest quality, including underrepresented minorities; 2) Provide these trainees with a multidisciplinary background in inflammatory disorders coupled with intensive laboratory training in a particular research topic; 3) To teach the trainees critical thinking skills and how to ask relevant and feasible research questions; 4) To instill these trainees with a sense of ethical behavior; 5) To help develop effective written and oral communication skills among the trainees; 6) To facilitate collaborative interactions among both trainees and faculty of the training program and 7) To mentor Junior faculty members in pre and post doctoral training.