Advanced Research Training in Transplantation Science

描述（由申请人提供）：这项修订后的竞争性续期旨在为移植特异性培训资助的延续提供资金，该资助在过去4年里已经发展成为埃默里大学移植科学高级研究培训项目。该计划服务于医学科学，移植生物学领域，这是非常严格的，独特的多学科，迫切需要新的学生来承担过去20年建立的巨大势头。目前的提案代表了众多，高效，多样化，积极合作的初级和高级研究员/导师的结合，以及相关的专业讲师，在坚实的基础学术卓越的制度基础上，执行一个独特的，精心设计的培训计划，将吸引和留住高度积极性的学员到移植领域。并为他们提供所需的独特工具，以影响该领域的普遍问题。该项目提供了一个丰富的环境，涵盖了移植和病毒免疫学方面的强大小鼠模型，在Yerkes国家灵长类动物中心提供了一个密集的转化项目，并显著增加了临床试验和人类免疫学方面的机会。在过去的5年里，这个项目的各个方面都得到了改善，学员们对这个项目的渴望是坚定的。该项目在努力发展和改进的过程中一直高度自省，我们坚信，目前的产品将改善移植研究和实践的未来，并优化移植受者的寿命和生活质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised competitive renewal seeks funding for continuation of a transplant-specific training grant, which has evolved considerably in the past 4 years into the Advanced Research Training in Transplantation Sciences program at Emory University. The program serves an area of medical science, transplantation biology, that is exceptionally rigorous, uniquely multidisciplinary, and in dire need of new students to take up the substantial momentum established in the past 20 years. The current proposal represents a coalescence of numerous, highly productive, diverse, and actively collaborating junior and senior investigator/mentors, with an associated group of dedicated instructors, on a strong institutional foundation of fundamental academic excellence, to execute a unique and carefully designed training program that will attract and retain highly motivated trainees to the transplantation field, and give them the unique tool set needed to influence the prevailing problems in the field. The program offers a rich environment spanning powerful murine models in transplantation and viral immunology, an intensive translational program at the Yerkes National Primate Center, and markedly augmented opportunities in clinical trials and human immunology. Every aspect of the program has improved over the past 5 years and the desire for this program amongst trainees is firmly established. The program has been highly introspective in its efforts to evolve and improve, and it is our firm belief that the current offering will imprve the future of transplantation research and practice, and optimize the length and quality of life fo transplant recipients.