Interdisciplinary Training in Genes and the Environment

描述（由申请人提供） 在基因和环境计划的跨学科培训在公共卫生（HSPH）的哈佛学院满足训练有素的科学家谁有一个理解，并致力于，尖端研究在分子和环境暴露生物学的交叉点与统计和计算方法的强有力的培训的关键需求。培训计划是基于19个完成和经验丰富的多学科教师的积极参与，包括环境卫生科学家，分子生物学家，分子流行病学家和计算生物学家。拟议培训方案的两个相互关联的目标是： * 培养真正的合作伙伴，能够进行方法研究，并帮助解决人类环境暴露和遗传易感性研究中出现的困难分析问题。 * 鼓励跨学科研究，特别是在遗传学和各种“组学”方面的研究，这些“组学”是根据新的方法来确定实验室和人口科学中与环境照射有关的生物活动的特征的。 博士预科生将获得博士学位。在公共卫生生物科学（BPH）中，公共卫生博士课程在最近的NRC分析中排名全国第一。的博士学位是通过哈佛大学文理研究生院授予的。博士后研究员将由两名HSPH教师指导，以支持和鼓励跨学科培训。该计划建议继续支持八名博士前学生，并寻求每年增加一名博士后研究员，每年共两名。这些博士后学员将拥有高级学位（博士，医学博士，医学博士/博士或其他博士学位），与暴露生物学/环境健康科学或基因组学/蛋白质组学的计算领域相关，并对交叉培训研究经验特别感兴趣。 在基因与环境计划的跨学科培训的所有学员将提供一个优秀的机会，成为基因组学，环境健康科学和定量方法的同等熟练，以实现人类基因和环境的跨学科研究的领导作用，在制定有效的疾病预防和干预策略服务于公共卫生利益的最终目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Interdisciplinary Training in Genes and the Environment program at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) meets the critical need for well-trained scientists who have an understanding of, and commitment to, cutting-edge research at the intersection of molecular and environmental exposure biology with strong training in statistical and computational methods. The Training Program is based on active participation by 19 accomplished and experienced multidisciplinary faculty members, including environmental health scientists, molecular biologists, molecular epidemiologists, and computational biologists. The two interrelated goals of the proposed Training Program are: * To train true collaborative partners able to pursue methodological research that is motivated by, and helps to solve, difficult analytic issues that arise in studies of human environmental exposures and genetic susceptibility to complex diseases. * To encourage interdisciplinary research, especially in genetics and the various "omics" arising from new methodologies for characterizing biological activity associated with environmental exposures in laboratory and population sciences. Pre-doctoral students will obtain the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in Public Health (BPH), the public health doctoral program ranked first in the nation in the recent NRC analysis. The Ph.D. degree is awarded through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Postdoctoral fellows will be mentored by two HSPH faculty to support and encourage cross-disciplinary training. The Program proposes continued support for eight pre-doctoral students and seeks to add one postdoctoral fellow per year for a total of two each year of the award. These postdoctoral trainees will have an advanced degree (Ph.D., M.D., M.D./Ph.D. or other doctoral degree) relevant to exposure biology/environmental health sciences or computational areas of genomics/proteomics and will have specific interest in cross-training research experience. All trainees in the Interdisciplinary Training in Genes and Environment Program will be provided an outstanding opportunity to become equally skilled in genomics, environmental health sciences, and quantitative methods in order to attain leadership roles in interdisciplinary studies of human genes and the environment, with the ultimate goal of serving public health interests in developing effective disease prevention and intervention strategies.