Biotechnology Training Grant

 描述（由申请人提供）：在UVA的生物技术培训计划（BTP），现在在其第15个年头，已发展成为一个高度互动的博士学员社区从每年5月的竞争开放给博士生从所有科学和工程部门大学范围内选择性地绘制。BTP学生在培训（15）或毕业（47）进入平均本科GPA为3.70，目前包括2个少数民族和1个经济困难，并由6个不同的部门主办。在弗吉尼亚大学BTP存在的过程中，学员和毕业生（19%） 少数民族或弱势群体）获得了多个奖项，经历了来自38个不同公司的51个不同的实习生，毕业后现在受雇于工业界（22），学术界（14;包括4名助理教授和1名助理教授），政府（3），医学（5）或基金会（1）。一位是公司总裁，两位是GSK和安进的董事，另一位是NSF副董事。自2005年以来，已有75篇第一作者文章发表在影响因子高达24的期刊上。受训人员直接负责BTP的方案特点，包括：BTP专题讨论会和研讨会、BTP关爱日、BTP工业问答小组和BTP公司图尔斯参观。指导我们的学员是来自15个部门的42人的高度参与，协作和资金充足的教师。机构的支持对我们的成功至关重要，包括研究副总裁，以帮助外部和研讨会的资金，以及由工程学院资助的额外培训名额。我们认为BTP的使命有三个方面：（一）最重要的是培养我们的学生成为杰出的科学家，他们最终将在生物技术的不同专业职位上为社会做出贡献，（二）通过我们的实习计划提供有意义的工业科学经验，以及（三）通过定期的BTP期刊俱乐部/数据会议，研讨会和研讨会，促进不同学科的BTP学生之间的科学协同作用。我们认为，在下面的竞争性更新，在每个这些领域的成功已经实现，从而有助于培养新一代的年轻科学家谁接近新的科学挑战与分析的头脑和广泛的现代技术。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at UVA, now in its 15th year, has developed into a highly interactive community of PhD trainees drawn selectively from an annual May competition open to PhD students from all science and engineering departments university-wide. BTP students in training (15) or graduated (47) entered with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.70, currently include 2 minorities and 1 financially disadvantaged, and are hosted by 6 different departments. Over the course of the existence of the UVA BTP, trainees and graduates (19% minority or disadvantaged) have received multiple awards, experienced 51 different externships from 38 different companies, and after graduation are now employed in industry (22), academia (14; including 4 Ass't and 1 Assoc Professors), government (3), medicine (5), or foundation (1). One is a company president, two are Directors at GSK and Amgen, and another is an NSF Deputy Director. Since '05, 75 first author articles have been published in journals with impact factors as high as 24. Trainees have taken direct responsibility for programmatic features of the BTP including: BTP Symposia and Seminars, BTP Day of Caring, BTP Industrial Q&A Panels and BTP company tours. Mentoring our trainees is a highly engaged, collaborative and well-funded faculty of 42 individuals from 15 departments. Institutional support has been essential for our success, including Vice President for Research in help with externship and Symposia funding, and an additional training slot funded by the School of Engineering. We view the BTP's mission as threefold: (i) most importantly to train our students to be exceptional scientists who will ultimately contribute to society in diverse professional positions in biotechnology, (ii) to provide a meaningful experience in industrial science via our externship program, and (iii) to promote scientific synergy among BTP students of different disciplines through regular BTP Journal Clubs/Data Sessions, Seminars and Symposia. We argue in the following competitive renewal that success in each of these areas has been achieved, thereby helping to develop a new generation of young scientists who approach new scientific challenges with analytical minds and an extensive array of modern technologies.