Neurological Sciences Academic Development Award at Washington University School

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是神经科学学术发展奖（NSADA）的延续，该奖项在过去15年中支持了14名儿科神经学住院后学者。新申请反映了过去20年来儿科神经学的发展和变化，重点是过去5年，包括在对现代儿科神经学有直接影响的学术领域具有研究和临床专业知识的导师：发育神经科学，系统/认知神经科学，神经遗传学，神经系统损伤和癫痫。建议的导师来自神经病学系（包括儿科和发育神经病学系），以及解剖学和神经生物学，生物学，遗传学，心理学，精神病学，发育生物学，儿科，神经外科，医学和放射学系。这一新的应用还突出了华盛顿大学（一个已经丰富的环境）在过去5年中基础/转化/临床神经科学研究资源的巨大和持续增长。这些资源将随时提供给NSADA学者。该计划将专门为三位学者，我们的儿科神经病学住院医师计划的毕业生量身定制，并在很大程度上取决于他们以前的研究经验和职业偏好。谁进入具有丰富的研究经验的计划的学者将被鼓励补充他们的知识基金，然后在导师，项目主任和内部咨询委员会的指导下开始新的研究。经验不足的学者可能会在华盛顿大学生物学和生物医学科学系的神经科学项目中学习长达一年的正式课程。在任何一种情况下，学者们都将能够利用不仅致力于这一应用的29名教师的资源，而且还可以利用由大约200名从事积极研究的教师组成的更广泛的神经科学社区的资源。虽然学者们将有望从他们的导师那里获得大部分的监督，但研究人员和他们各自的实验室之间存在着巨大的互动，因此学者们将有大量的机会与经验丰富的研究人员接触。从华盛顿大学NSADA迄今为止的记录可以看出，NSADA奖学金的毕业生在完成三年后应该有竞争力获得额外的K级支持或独立的RPG级资助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is the renewal of the Neuro Sciences Academic Development Award (NSADA) that has supported 14 post-residency scholars in pediatric neurology over the past 15 years. The new application reflects the growth and changes in pediatric neurology over the past 20 years, with a focus on the past 5 years, and includes mentors with research and clinical expertise in academic areas that have direct impact on modern pediatric neurology: developmental neuroscience, systems/cognitive neuroscience, neurogenetics, nervous system injury, and epilepsy. The proposed mentors come from within the Department of Neurology (including the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology), as well as the Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Biology, Genetics, Psychology, Psychiatry, Developmental Biology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Medicine, and Radiology. This new application also highlights the enormous and continued growth of resources for basic/translational/clinical neuroscience research at Washington University (an already enriched environment) over the past 5 years. These resources will be readily accessible to the NSADA scholars. The program will be specifically tailored for the three scholars, graduates of our pediatric neurology residency program, and depend heavily upon their prior research experience and career preferences. Scholars who enter the program with extensive research experience will be encouraged to replenish their fund of knowledge and then embark upon new research with the guidance of the mentor, Program Director, and the Internal Advisory Committee. Less experienced scholars may spend up to a year in formal coursework in the Neuroscience Program of the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University. In either case, scholars will be able to draw upon the resources of not only the 29 faculty committed to this application but also a wider neuroscience community composed of roughly 200 faculty engaged in active research. While scholars will be expected to receive most of their supervision from their mentors, there is enormous interaction between faculty investigators and their respective laboratories so that scholars will have abundant opportunities for contact with experienced researchers. As is demonstrable from the track record of the Washington University NSADA to date, graduates of NSADA scholarship should be competitive for either additional K level support or independent RPG level funding after completion of three years.