Infection Biology Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案是为在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校建立感染生物学的机构博士前培训计划而提出的资金申请，该计划是由微生物学和病理生物学系的跨学科计划教员提交的。该项目教员在微生物生理学、遗传学、病因学、免疫学和传染病生态学方面的专业知识将提供现代分子发病学方面的广泛研究生培训，这超出了当前研究生课程的范围。组成培训教师的19名富有成效的研究人员与跨部门和学院边界的已建立的合作高度互动。对这些学生进行的广泛的跨学科培训将加强由NIH和其他机构资助的研究工作。该培训计划还将通过赞助一系列研讨会，参加当地主办的关于新发和重新出现的传染病的国际会议，并通过支持学生参加更多的国家会议，向关键受众展示他们的数据，来促进与其他机构的科学家的互动。我们申请资金支持四名受训人员。这些博士前学生将获得为期两年的资助，从他们第二年研究生学习结束开始，在他们完成大部分课程作业，建立论文项目，并产生重要的初步数据后。该计划将加强对这些学生的培训和指导。 相关性(见说明)：传染病仍然是美国的第三大死因和全世界的第二大死因。这一培训计划的资金将使我们能够继续巩固我们培训高素质科学家的传统，并培养越来越多的互动生物学家社区，他们致力于解决传染病所有领域的高影响、及时的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for funding to establish an institutional pre-doctoral training program in Infection Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign submitted by an interdisciplinary program faculty from the Departments of Microbiology and Pathobiology. The expertise of the program faculty in microbial physiology, genetics, pathogenesis, immunology, and ecology of infectious diseases will provide broad graduate training in modern molecular pathogenesis that goes beyond what is available in current graduate programs. The 19 productive researchers that make up the training faculty are highly interactive with established collaborations that cross departmental and college boundaries. The broad interdisciplinary training of these students will enhance the research efforts funded by grants from the NIH and other agencies. The training program will also facilitate interactions with scientists at other institutions by sponsoring a seminar series, by participating in a locally sponsored international conference on New and Re- emerging Infectious Diseases, and by providing support for students to attend additional national meetings to present their data to a critical audience. We request funds to support four trainees. These pre-doctoral students will be supported for a two-year period starting at the end of their second year of graduate studies, after they have completed much of their coursework, have established a thesis project, and have generated significant preliminary data. The program will enhance the training and mentorship of these students. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Infectious diseases remain the third leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause of death worldwide. Funding of this training program will allow us to continue to build on our tradition of training high-quality scientists and to foster a growing community of interactive biologists working on high-impact timely problems across all areas of infectious disease.