Immunology Training Program - Predoctoral

描述（由申请人提供）：免疫学培训计划（ITP）的目标是培养博士和医学博士/博士科学家在免疫学相关研究的杰出事业。该计划包括广泛的免疫学相关主题，从先天免疫，T细胞活化，耐受性，抗原加工和呈递，MHC功能，补体，抗体结构和功能以及粘膜免疫等领域的基础研究，到感染性疾病（如结核病，HIV）的临床相关模型研究，疫苗开发，免疫病理学，移植和自身免疫。参与部门提供了基础科学和临床活动和资源的丰富融合，丰富了博士生的培训，因为他们在免疫学领域从事基础和/或转化研究。为了实现这些培训目标，ITP已被开发为病理学研究生课程中的一个轨道。ITP博士学位的培训包括课程工作，研究轮换，正式和非正式研讨会，论文提案答辩/资格考试，以及导致学术出版物和博士论文的研究经验。培训师和研究实验室位于凯斯医学院及其附属机构的多个部门。大学医院病例医疗中心（UHCMC），克利夫兰诊所基金会（CCF，包括勒纳研究所）和路易斯斯托克斯VA医疗中心（VAMC）。广泛的部门间和机构间的参与是通过明确共同赞助ITP由CWRU病理学系，CCF免疫学系，CWRU/UHCMC传染病科，CWRU全球健康中心和CWRU/UHCMC视觉科学研究中心。其他ITP培训人员分布在Case、CCF、UHCMC、MHMC和VAMC的许多其他部门。无论他们的主要隶属关系，ITP培训师在病理学的情况下部门举行教师或培训师的任命。 相关性：免疫学培训计划提供博士培训，以培养未来的研究人员，他们将推动免疫学和免疫学相关临床重要领域的重要生物医学研究工作，如传染病，疫苗开发和器官移植自身免疫。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Immunology Training Program (ITP) is to train PhD and MD/PhD scientists for outstanding careers in immunology-related research. The program includes a wide range of Immunology-related topics, spanning from basic research in areas such as innate immunity, T cell activation, tolerance, antigen processing and presentation, MHC function, complement, antibody structure and function, and mucosal immunity to research in clinically relevant models of infectious diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, HIV), vaccine development, immunopathology, transplantation and autoimmunity. Participating departments provide a rich confluence of basic science and clinical activities and resources, enriching the training of PhD students as they engage in basic and/or translational research in the field of immunology. To accomplish these training goals, the ITP has been developed as a track within the Pathology Graduate Program. Training for the PhD degree in the ITP includes course work, research rotations, formal and informal seminars, a Thesis Proposal Defense/Qualifying Examination, and research experience resulting in scholarly publications and a PhD dissertation. Trainers and research laboratories are located in multiple departments at Case School of Medicine and its affiliated institutions. University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC), the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF, including the Lerner Research Institute) and the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center (VAMC). The extensive inter-departmental and inter-institutional participation is underscored by explicit co-sponsorship of the ITP by the CWRU Department of Pathology, CCF Department of Immunology, CWRU/UHCMC Division of Infectious Diseases, CWRU Center for Global Health and CWRU/UHCMC Visual Sciences Research Center. Other ITP trainers are located in a wide number of other departments at Case, CCF, UHCMC, MHMC and VAMC. Regardless of their primary affiliation, ITP Trainers hold faculty or trainer appointments in the Case Department of Pathology. RELEVANCE: The Immunology Training Program provides PhD training to produce future investigators who will drive important biomedical research efforts in Immunology and Immunology-related areas of clinical importance, such as infectious diseases, vaccine development, and organ transplantation autoimmunity.