Chemistry Biology Interface Predoctoral Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：此应用程序要求我们的化学生物界面（CBI）培训补助金的第三次更新。1995年，我们在马萨诸塞州大学启动了一项新的跨学科培训计划，该计划建立在现有优势的基础上，并利用我们的教师致力于物理和生命科学之间的合作。我们成功地实施了一个课程，补充了参与研究生课程的要求，增加了足够的培训元素，以有效地培养学生在互补学科的化学或生物背景。随后的时期（2000-2005年）是该计划的巨大增长之一：附属学生的数量从14人增长到60多人，因为学生远远超出了CBI资助的学生，他们认识到CBI培训和社区的价值。 在目前的资助期间，我们的CBI培训计划已成为校园的主要力量，影响教师招聘和新建筑和装修的建设。CBI培训学院已从19人发展到27人，并继续为来自化学，分子与细胞生物学，化学工程和聚合物科学与工程四个参与研究生课程的60多名学生提供交叉培训。随着更多的系（特别是物理和计算机科学）进入CBI相关领域，我们预计CBI项目将继续增长。CBI计划目前为6名博士前学生提供NIH支持，大学比赛支持2个额外的培训。为了继续促进CBI计划不断增长的实力，因为它扩展到新的学科和培训越来越多的学生，我们要求增加到8个NIH资助的培训。 我们的CBI计划的显着特点包括化学工程和聚合物科学与工程部门的参与，这丰富了定量，生物材料和生物工程的观点和项目的CBI培训。我们受欢迎的“药物设计”课程，作为CBI课程的一个组成部分，每周由制药行业的演讲者举办研讨会，并实地考察公司。我们的CBI务虚会已经发展成为一个充满活力的年度活动，与马萨诸塞大学医学院的研究人员建立联系。最后，CBI学生与新的麻省大学细胞工程研究所的学生合作，正在组织一个新的年度职业日，以进一步加强他们的CBI培训。因此，CBI课程和社区有丰富的机会在化学和生物学的方法和知识框架的培训，这准备我们的CBI毕业生提出和解决重大的生物医学问题，在他们未来的工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests the third renewal of our Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Grant. In 1995 we launched a new interdisciplinary training program at the University of Massachusetts that built on existing strengths and harnessed our faculty commitment to collaboration between the physical and life sciences. We successfully implemented a curriculum that complemented the requirements of the participating graduate programs, adding enough training elements to efficiently train students with either chemical or biological backgrounds in the complementary discipline. The subsequent period (2000-2005) was one of tremendous growth of the program: the number of affiliated students grew from 14 to over 60, as students well beyond those with CBI funding recognized the value of the CBI training and community. During the current funding period our CBI Training Program has become a major force on campus, influencing faculty hiring and construction of new buildings and renovations. The CBI Training Faculty has grown from 19 to 27, and continues to provide cross-training to over 60 students from the four participating graduate programs of Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Chemical Engineering, and Polymer Science & Engineering. We anticipate continued growth of our CBI Program as additional departments (notably Physics and Computer Science) move into CBI- related areas. The CBI Program currently provides NIH support for 6 pre-doctoral students, and a University match supports 2 additional Traineeships. To continue to foster the growing strength of the CBI program as it expands into new disciplines and trains increasing numbers of students, we request an increase to 8 NIH-funded Traineeships. Notable features of our CBI Program include the participation of the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science & Engineering, which enriches CBI training with quantitative, biomaterials, and bioengineering perspectives and projects. Our popular "Drug Design" course, developed as an integral part of the CBI curriculum, features weekly seminars by speakers from the pharmaceutical industry and a field trip to tour a company. Our CBI retreat has grown into a vibrant annual event that forges connections with researchers at UMass Medical School. Finally, CBI students, in partnership with students of the new UMass Institute for Cellular Engineering, are organizing a new annual Career Day to further enhance their CBI training. Thus the CBI curriculum and community are rich in opportunities for training in the methods and intellectual framework of both chemistry and biology, which prepares our CBI graduates to pose and solve significant biomedical questions in their future work.