Postdoctoral Training in Vision Research

 描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议在史密斯-凯特尔韦尔眼科研究所(SKERI)设立一项机构培训补助金，以提供与转化性视力研究和康复相关的基础和临床科学方面的博士后培训。13名教职员工的专业知识涵盖空间和双目视觉、眼睛运动、斜视、中央视力丧失、低视力和失明康复、计算机视觉和辅助技术，他们将培训寻求专门从事转化性视力研究和康复的博士后研究员。研究培训目标将通过密集监督的研究项目、频繁和广泛的研讨会、期刊俱乐部和座谈会以及监督的研究业绩、提案编写和赠款编写来实现。由于SKERI学院的绝大多数都是全职研究人员，没有教学职责，实验室也很小，院士们与赞助商有大量的直接互动。此外，研究员还为他们提供了许多与学院其他成员互动的机会，其中包括基础、临床医生和康复研究人员。这些互动都是由这个小组促成的，他们都住在同一栋楼里，都在进行临床相关的视力研究。院系与同事的互动代表了研究过程的所有领域：建议、批评、执行，以及通过撰写论文和准备演示文稿以及参与科学和伦理研讨会来交流研究结果。重要的是，院士之间还通过有组织的活动、相邻的开放工作空间以及教职员工之间的多次合作保持频繁的联系。该奖学金计划是SKERI研究活力和能力的重要组成部分。因为SKERI不是授予学位的机构，它的调查人员通常不会有研究生。研究所内部普遍赞赏研究员将新的想法和技术带到教官的实验室。培训研究员的过程鼓励教员挑战旧的假设，对为什么某项研究活动具有重要意义进行清晰而简明的描述，并扩大研究问题的方法范围。T32计划将大大增加SKERI的内部资助的Rachel C.Atkinson奖学金、C.V.Starr奖学金计划和来自其他来源的个人奖学金，使项目总规模约为6-7名博士后研究员。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose an Institutional Training Grant at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKERI) to provide postdoctoral training in basic and clinical science relevant to translational vision research and rehabilitation. Thirteen faculty members whose expertise spans the areas of spatial and binocular vision, eye movements, strabismus, central vision loss, low vision and blindness rehabilitation, computer vision and assistive technology will train postdoctoral fellows seeking to specialize in translational vision research and rehabilitation. Research training goals will be accomplished through intensively supervised research projects, frequent and wide-ranging seminars, journal clubs and colloquia, as well as supervised research performance, proposal development and grant writing. Because the vast majority of SKERI Faculty are full-time researchers with no teaching duties and small laboratories, the Fellows experience a great deal of direct interaction with their sponsors. In addition, the Fellows have available to them many opportunities for interaction with the rest of the Faculty, which include basic, clinician and rehabilitation researchers. These interactions are facilitated by the group all being housed within the same building and all working in clinically relevant vision research. The Faculty-Fellow interactions represent all areas of the research process: proposal, critique, performance, and communication of findings through the writing of papers and preparation of presentations, as well as participation in scientific and ethics seminars. Importantly, Fellows are also in frequent contact with each other through organized events, adjacent open work-spaces, and the numerous collaborations among Faculty. The Fellowship program forms a critical component of the research vitality and capacity of SKERI. Because SKERI is not a degree-granting institution, its investigators do not typically have graduate students. It is widely appreciated within the Institute that Fellows bring in new ideas and techniques to the preceptors' laboratories. The process of training Fellows encourages Faculty to challenge old assumptions, to develop clear and concise descriptions of why a given research activity is of significance, and to expand the range of approaches to research problems. The T32 Program will significantly augment SKERI's internally funded Rachel C. Atkinson Fellowship, C.V. Starr Scholarship Program, and individual Fellowship awards from other sources to yield an overall program size of approximately 6-7 post-doctoral fellows.