Training Program in Neuroscience

 描述（由申请人提供）：在这个竞争性的续期申请中，我们要求资金继续支持纽约大学的综合，多学科，神经科学培训计划，为现代神经科学研究的强烈合作和跨学科性质做好准备。历史上，两个神经科学研究生课程在纽约大学并行存在。然而，在过去七年中，在大学的大力支持下，我们已经进入了一个新的课程整合阶段，无缝融合了纽约大学的神经科学研究生教育，并提供了比单独提供的每个课程更广泛和更深入的培训。我们的计划，其中包括81名培训教师，结合了系统，认知和计算神经科学的优势，从华盛顿广场的神经科学中心与那些在细胞，分子，发育，转化和临床神经科学在纽约大学医学院校园，它作为在纽约大学广泛的神经科学社区的基础。我们的研究生课程在国家一级具有很强的竞争力，我们在上一个资助期成功招募优秀的研究生以及一些新的初级和高级教师证明。自从我们上次提交以来，医学院还聘请了Richard Tsien建立了纽约大学神经科学研究所，这为纽约大学的神经科学项目带来了更大的热情。我们的神经科学培训计划的具体目标是：（1）在互动，学院和前沿研究环境的背景下提供严格，高质量和广泛的神经科学研究生教育;（2）增加申请和参与该计划的高素质学生的数量，包括积极招募代表性不足的少数民族;（3）为学生提供严格的指导系统，引导学生通过一系列的里程碑，以博士学位通常在5-6年;（4）培养学生必要的专业技能，包括批判性阅读，赠款写作，口头陈述，领导，管理和网络;（5）鼓励对神经科学领域的广泛观点，包括基础，转化和临床研究;（6）为学生准备各种科学的职业机会，将提供给他们研究生院后。我们要求在第一年和第二年为12名博士前学生提供资金。在前一个资助期增加的插槽是充分证明了教师和学生人数的大幅增加。通过我们新整合的研究生课程，我们为学员提供广阔而丰富的智力环境，以及资源和经验，自信地追求自己的科学兴趣，成为独立的科学领导者，他们将在基础，转化和临床神经科学方面取得未来的突破。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this competing renewal application, we request funds to continue support for an integrated, multidisciplinary, neuroscience training program at New York University, one that prepares trainees for the intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience research. Historically, two neuroscience graduate programs existed in parallel at NYU. However, with substantial support from the University over the past seven years, we have reached a new phase of program integration that seamlessly merges neuroscience graduate education at NYU and offers far greater breadth and depth of training than each program offered individually. Our program, which includes 81 training faculty, combines the strengths in systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience from the Washington Square-based Center for Neural Science with those in cellular, molecular, developmental, translational, and clinical neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine campus, and it serves as the foundation for the extensive neuroscience community at NYU. Our graduate program is highly competitive at the national level, proven by our success during the previous funding period in recruiting outstanding graduate students as well as a number of new junior and senior faculty. Since our last submission, the Medical School also recruited Richard Tsien to establish the NYU Neuroscience Institute, which has created even greater enthusiasm around the neuroscience program here at NYU. The specific goals of our neuroscience training program are: (1) To provide a rigorous, high-quality, and broad-based graduate education in neuroscience within the context of an interactive, collegial, and cutting-edge research environment; (2) To increase the number of high caliber students that apply to and participate in the program, including active recruitment of underrepresented minorities; (3) To provide students with guidance of a rigorous mentoring system that ushers students through a series of milestones to a doctoral degree typically in 5-6 years; (4) To train students in necessary professional skills, including critical reading, grant writing, oral presentation, leadership, management, and networking; (5) To encourage a broad perspective on the field of neuroscience that encompasses basic, translational, and clinical research; and (6) To prepare students for the variety of scientific career opportunities that will be available to them after graduate school. We request funding for 12 predoctoral students in their first and second years. The increase in slots over the previous funding period is amply justified by the large increase in faculty and student populations. Through our newly integrated graduate program, we provide trainees with a vast and rich intellectual environment, as well as the resources and experience, to confidently pursue their own scientific interests and become independent scientific leaders, who will make future breakthroughs in basic, translational, and clinical neuroscience.