ADVANCED GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM IN NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

描述（由申请人提供）：要求支持培训计划，以支持跨学科的研究培训和先进的研究生在他们的第三，第四和第五年的职业生涯发展现有的大学范围内，学位授予神经生物学和行为博士课程在哥伦比亚大学。神经科学是当代生物医学研究中发展最快的领域之一，其中基础研究成果越来越多地来自跨学科和合作研究，并正在转化为临床进展。该计划源于认识到，有培训机会是特别相关和重要的高级研究生在神经科学和有一个不断变化的景观准备，寻找和维持职业生涯在生物医学和神经科学研究。在这种情况下，该计划的主题将是鼓励和支持我们的学生进行新颖的，跨学科的和合作的论文研究项目，不容易通过现有的程序支持，并为他们提供专业的职业发展培训。研究培训将由该计划的88名教师提供，其中包括神经科学各个领域的领导者，他们具有广泛的研究兴趣。为进一步促进跨学科培训，将支助学生短期访问纽约地区以外的实验室，以学习和应用当地没有的新技术。增强的专业职业发展培训将包括在我们的计划中为高级研究生在这一领域新设立的课程，目前现有的转化神经科学课程的增强，并为学生创造机会，从我们机构内适当的医生/科学家那里获得转化神经科学职业指导。整个神经生物学和行为学课程的学生总数约为80人。最初要求支助4名高级学生，每年增加1名学生，到第5年达到8名。学生将有资格参加该计划后，前两年的密集教学经验。任命将是竞争性的，选择将由指定的教师委员会。 相关性：拟议计划的目标是支持新颖的，跨学科的和协作的研究，以及在神经科学先进的学生的职业生涯发展。神经科学是当代生物医学研究中发展最快的领域之一，其中基本发现正在转化为神经和精神疾病的临床进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for a training program to support the interdisciplinary research training and professional career development of advanced graduate students in their third, fourth and fifth years of an existing University-wide, degree-granting Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University. Neuroscience is one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary biomedical research and one in which basic findings are increasingly arising from interdisciplinary and collaborative research and are being translated into clinical advances. The program arises from the recognition that there are training opportunities that are of special relevance and importance to advanced graduate students in neuroscience and that there is a changing landscape for preparing for, finding and sustaining careers in biomedical and neuroscience research. In this context, the themes of the program will be to encourage and support our students in carrying out novel, interdisciplinary and collaborative thesis research projects not easily supported by existing programs and to provide them with professional career development training. Research training will be provided by the 88 faculty in the program, including leaders in various areas of neuroscience with a broad span of research interests. To further facilitate interdisciplinary training, students will be supported for short visits to laboratories outside of the New York area for the purpose of learning and applying novel techniques not available locally. Enhanced professional career development training will include a newly instituted course in this area for advanced graduate students in our program, the augmentation of a currently existing course in translational neuroscience, and creation of opportunities for students to receive guidance on careers in translational neuroscience from appropriate physician/scientists within our institution. Total student enrollment in the overall Neurobiology and Behavioral Program is approximately 80. Support is requested for 4 advanced students initially, with a yearly increment of 1 student to reach a total of 8 by year 5. Students will be eligible for the program after the first two years of intensive instructional experience. Appointment will be competitive and selection will be by a designated faculty committee. RELEVANCE: The goal of the proposed program is to support novel, interdisciplinary and collaborative research as well as professional career development for advanced students in neuroscience. Neuroscience is one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary biomedical research and one in which basic findings are being translated into clinical advances in neurological and psychiatric disorders.