Training in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

描述(由申请人提供)：凯斯西储大学(CWRU)的地理医学和传染病培训计划每年为4名博士后医学或博士研究生提供严格的研究培训。自1977年启动以来，该计划一直强调研究方面的跨学科培训，以了解和解决传染病问题，特别是在免疫学、遗传学、分子生物学、生物化学、流行病学、生物统计学、临床试验设计和临床结果等与感染的发病机制、传播和控制相关的方面拥有互补专业知识的科学家的共同指导。项目教师包括来自10个系和3个中心的28名导师，他们都位于CWRU校园和Louis B.Stokes退伍军人管理局医疗中心的健康科学综合体内。学员的指导过程包括参与课程作业、个别实验室研究会议和定期研讨会，以及参加国家和国际会议。所有导师都有独立的NIH或其他外部研究资金，并与CWRU促进传染病研究的相关机构密切合作，这些机构包括NIH结核病研究单位、艾滋病研究中心、艾滋病临床试验单位、中西部地区生物防御和新发传染病研究卓越中心以及抗菌素耐药性和流行病学中心。该项目的28名导师中有4名是女性，2名是代表不足的少数族裔。该计划强调在美国和发展中国家具有重大健康意义的传染病--抗菌药耐药性、结核病、疟疾、艾滋病毒、慢性蠕虫感染，包括“被忽视的热带疾病”、丝虫病和血吸虫病以及新出现的感染。一个独特的特点是有机会参与项目导师正在进行的NIH资助项目的海外地点的研究，例如乌干达、肯尼亚、巴布亚新几内亚、巴西和南非。美国学员还可以与参加CWRU Fogarty国际中心支持的乌干达和巴布亚新几内亚合作项目的外国合作者进行互动。22名博士后研究员在1998年至2008年期间完成了他们的培训；17名现在担任学术职位，获得了NIH或其他研究资助，或正在继续进行研究培训。该方案特别寻求从代表性不足的少数群体以及残疾人和处境不利的个人中招募受训人员。 相关性：地理医学和传染病培训计划将教育负责制定治疗和控制具有全球意义的感染的战略的下一代科学家，特别是结核病、艾滋病、疟疾、抗菌素耐药性、蠕虫疾病和可能在美国引入或传播的新出现的感染。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases Training Program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) provides rigorous research training for 4 post-doctoral M.D. or Ph.D. fellows per year. Since its beginning in 1977, the Program has emphasized interdisciplinary training in research to understand and solve infectious disease problems, particularly co-mentorship by scientists with complementary expertise in immunology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trial design and clinical outcomes as they relate to the pathogenesis, transmission and control of infection. Program faculty includes 28 mentors from 10 departments and 3 centers, all located within the health sciences complex on the CWRU campus and the Louis B. Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center. Trainees are mentored by a process that includes participation in coursework, individual lab research meetings and regular seminars, and attending national and international meetings. All mentors have independent NIH or other extramural research funding, and work closely with related structures at CWRU that promote infectious diseases research -the NIH Tuberculosis Research Unit, Center for AIDS Research, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Midwest Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, and the Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology. Four of the Program's 28 mentors are women, and 2 are an underrepresented minority. The Program emphasizes infectious diseases that have great health significance in the United States and the developing world - anti-bacterial drug resistance, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, chronic worm infections that include the "Neglected Tropical Diseases" filariasis and schistosomiasis and emerging infections. A unique feature is the opportunity to participate in research at overseas sites where Program mentors have ongoing NIH-funded projects, e.g. Uganda, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and South Africa. U.S. trainees may also interact with foreign collaborators participating in CWRU Fogarty International Center-supported partnership programs in Uganda and Papua New Guinea. 22 postdoctoral fellows completed their training between 1998 and 2008; 17 now hold academic positions, have been awarded NIH or other research grants or are continuing with research training. The Program especially seeks to recruit trainees from underrepresented minorities as well as disabled and disadvantaged individuals. RELEVANCE: The Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease Training Program will educate the next generation of scientists charged with developing strategies to treat and control infections of global significance, particularly TB, AIDS, malaria, antimicrobial drug resistance, worm diseases, and emerging infections that may be introduced or spread in the United States.