Research Training in Immunology

描述(由申请人提供)：免疫学是一门非常丰富和多样化的科学学科，涉及基础、翻译和临床研究。这门学科的广度跨越了免疫学、分子生物学、微生物学、细胞生物学和计算生物学等领域，反映了由于免疫反应性不足或异常而导致的各种疾病。随着我们对这个复杂的生物系统如何增长的理解，也需要培养具有免疫学热情的具有创造力、灵感和技术熟练的新一代年轻科学家。波士顿大学的免疫学培训项目(ITP)已经这样做了24年。现在，得益于波士顿大学一系列久经考验的尖端教育和科学资源，以及37名敬业的ITP教职员工的集体专业知识，我们建议通过实现6个具体目标来进一步实现这一目标：1)建立基础设施，支持波士顿大学医学院建立一个有凝聚力、互动性和激励性的免疫学社区，并与ITP的战略合作伙伴互动。2)培养下一代年轻的免疫学家，他们拥有最先进的技术技能，在学术上多才多艺，在分子和细胞免疫学、计算生物学和其他相关学科中具有广泛的多学科背景，并在特定的感兴趣的子领域内成为专家。3)在以下方面向受训人员提供大量资源 确定并实现他们的职业目标。4)使用定量和定性相结合的方法监测和评估项目的质量和有效性以及学生的职业发展和学术表现；5)吸引致力于基础、翻译或临床免疫学事业并将受益于ITP社区并为其做出贡献的优秀博士后和博士后实习生；6)为女性、代表性不足的少数族裔、身体残疾和弱势群体提供有吸引力的机会，以追求基础和翻译免疫学研究的职业生涯。这些目标将通过正规课程、研讨会、辩论、研讨会、讨论、培训练习、基于网络的工具和实验经验的协调计划来实现。对于博士前实习生，其中6人在任何一年都得到了本T32的资助，最终的经历将是在选定的ITP教师导师/顾问/教师的实验室完成博士论文项目。对于任何一年资助的两名博士后研究员来说，最终结果将是一种能力水平，这将使他们走上成功的轨道，成为独立的科学家和教育工作者。来自ITP的博士后和博士后培训生都将准备好培训“他们的下一代”免疫学家，并向广大公众展示免疫学研究对公众健康的巨大好处。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Immunology is a profoundly rich and diverse scientific discipline involving basic, translational, and clinical research. The breadth of the discipline, spanning the fields of immunology, molecular biology, microbiology, cellular biology, and computational biology, reflects the varied diseases resulting from insufficient or aberrant immune reactivity. As our understanding of how this complex biological system grows, so too does the need to train a new generation of creative, inspired, and technically proficient young scientists with a passion for immunology. The Immunology Training Program (ITP) at Boston University has been doing that for 24 years. Now, with the benefit of an array of time-tested as well as cutting-edge educational and scientific resources at BU, and the collective expertise of 37 dedicated ITP faculty members, we propose to further this goal by addressing 6 specific aims: 1) Build an infrastructure to support a cohesive, interactive, and motivated immunology community on the Boston University Medical Campus and to interact with ITP's strategic partners. 2) Train the next generation of young immunologists who possess state-of the-art technical skills, are academically versatile, have a broad multidisciplinary background in molecular and cellular immunology, computational biology, and other relevant disciplines and are expert in a particular subarea of interest. 3) Provide significant resources to aid trainees in identifying and realizing their career goals. 4) Monitor and assess program quality and effectiveness and the career development and scholarly performance of students using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods, 5) Attract outstanding pre- and postdoctoral trainees who are committed to careers in basic, translational, or clinical immunology and who will benefit from and contribute to the ITP community, 6) Provide attractive opportunities for women, underrepresented minorities, the physically disabled, and the disadvantaged to pursue careers in basic and translational immunology research. These goals will be achieved through a coordinated program of formal courses, seminars, debates, workshops, discussions, training exercises, web-based tools, and lab experiences. For the predoctoral trainees, 6 of whom are supported in any given year by this T32, the culminating experience will be completion of a doctoral thesis project in the laboratory of a chosen ITP faculty mentor/advisor/teacher. For the 2 postdoctoral fellows supported in any given year, the end result will be a level of competence that will place them on a steep trajectory towards success as independent scientists and educators. Both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will emerge from the ITP prepared to train "their next generation" of immunologists and to demonstrate to the public at large the enormous public health advantages of immunology research.