Multidisciplinary Research Training in Pulmonary Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：此提案描述了我们在肺和危重医学部门的研究培训计划。在这个项目中，我们为肺部研究和医学提供多学科方法，整合了最先进的基础科学，临床试验和患者结果。四名博士后（两名医学博士，两名博士）和两名研究生将获得为期两年的研究资助。此外，我们还将为多元化候选人提供短期的暑期研究经验。研究将通过学员参与项目范围内的研究研讨会、期刊俱乐部和教学课程来补充。我们相信，这种项目范围的会议和互动对于为年轻科学家提供他们自己项目之外的广阔研究视角至关重要，避免过早过度专业化和不适当的狭窄研究焦点。课程作业包括一门关于肺部疾病和研究的课程。它还包括一门必修课——负责任的研究行为和生物统计学。我们还将为从事研究工作的受训者提供广泛的课程。这些包括实验设计，拨款写作，手稿写作，人体调查，流行病学方法和职业发展。这些都在我们的研究生课程，我们的CTSA为基础的人类调查员计划和其他大学部门提供。研究指导由经验丰富的科学家组成，他们在培养年轻科学家方面具有丰富的经验。该项目还通过将初级导师与更资深的导师配对来培养教师导师。大约一半的教师主要从事与肺有关的研究。其余的人在细胞和分子生物学方面具有特定的专业知识，经常应用于肺部疾病的研究。在这个项目中，实验室之间的相互作用和协同作用增加了丰富和广泛的培训环境。由于我们的培训项目相对年轻，我们的学员非常成功，包括获得独立的研究资金，在生物医学研究领域获得教职或行业职位，以及在其他知名机构获得博士后职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes our research training program in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In this program, we offer a multidisciplinary approach to Pulmonary research and medicine that integrates state of the art basic science, clinical trials and patient outcomes. Four post-doctoral fellows (two MD Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellows, two PhDs) and two graduate students will be offered two years of research funding. In addition, we will also be offering short term summer research experiences for diversity candidates. Research will be supplemented by trainee participation in program wide research seminars, journal clubs, and didactic coursework. It is our belief that such program wide meetings and interactions are vital to providing young scientists with a broad perspective on research outside their own projects, avoiding early over-specialization and an inappropriately narrow research focus. Course work includes a program specific course on pulmonary disease and research. It also includes a mandatory course in Responsible Conduct in Research and biostatistics. We will also offer a wide range of courses appropriate to trainees embarking on a research career. These include experimental design, grant writing, manuscript writing, human investigations, epidemiological methods and career development. These are offered in our graduate programs, our CTSA based Human Investigators Program and other university departments. Research mentorship is provided by a faculty of seasoned scientists with extensive experience in training young scientists. This program is also structured to develop faculty mentors by pairing junior mentors with more senior mentors. About half the faculty conducts research primarily involving the lung. The remainder have specific areas of expertise in cell and molecular biology that are frequently applied to the study of lung diseases. Interactions and synergy among the laboratories in this program add to the rich and broad training environment. Our trainees have been very successful given the relative youth of our training program including achieving independent research funding, faculty or industry positions in biomedical research and postdoctoral positions at other prestigious institutions.