NIDA Training Program in Neuroscience

 描述(由申请人提供)：本申请是对1995年在密歇根大学(UM)创立的NIDA神经科学博士前培训项目的继续支持的请求。该计划的主要目标是招收和培养学生对与药物滥用的神经生物学相关的研究的兴趣，并为受训人员在攻读博士学位时追求这些兴趣提供必要的基础设施。 神经科学领域。为了有资格获得NIDA培训计划的支持，学生必须首先获得现有的生物、生物医学或自然科学方面的UM研究生计划的许可，例如跨部门神经科学研究生计划或生物心理学计划。NIDA神经科学培训计划提名的学生是根据两个标准挑选的：1)学术资格和推荐信(即学术成就)；2)他们的学习和研究兴趣与NIDA使命的相关性。在被NIDA神经科学培训计划录取后，学生们将继续学习神经科学，包括药物滥用的神经精神药理学必修课和NIDA培训计划教职员工参加的一系列研讨会。NIDA神经科学培训计划由18名附属教员组成，他们都从事与药物滥用的生物学基础相关的研究。大多数教职员工要么是NIDA资助的研究基金的负责人，要么是联合研究员。自上一个资助周期以来，核心教员发生了变化，有7名新教员取代了不再在密歇根大学从事相关研究的教员。这些新的教员大多被认为是初级调查人员；因此，有一个计划，让更多的资深教员担任任何受训人员的共同导师， 加入初级教员的实验室。此外，120多名神经科学研究生计划的教职员工也参与了培训的许多方面，这些教职员工也参与了这项培训。培训补助金主要用于培养学生在研究药物滥用的神经生物学的实验室进行轮换研究的兴趣，并最终选择其中一个实验室进行论文工作。此外，我们希望在他们的论文工作期间，与期刊俱乐部、研讨会系列和社交活动保持他们对药物滥用研究的兴趣，这些活动将向所有现在和以前的受训人员开放，并得到这次培训的支持 格兰特。NIDA的神经科学培训计划由一名主任和一名联合主任管理，现在包括一名学生发展主任，以增强受训人员的体验。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a request for continuing support for a predoctoral NIDA Training Program in Neuroscience, which was founded at The University of Michigan (UM) in 1995. The major goal of this Program is to recruit and develop student interest in research related to the neurobiology of substance abuse, and to provide the necessary infrastructure for trainees to pursue these interests as they work towards their doctoral degree in the field of neuroscience. To be eligible for support by the NIDA Training Program students must first gain admittance to an existing UM graduate program in the biological, biomedical or natural sciences, such as the interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program or the Biopsychology Program. Students nominated for support by the NIDA Training Program in Neuroscience are selected on the basis of two criteria: 1) academic qualifications and references (i.e. academic excellence), and 2) the relevance of their program of study and research interests to the NIDA mission. After admission to the NIDA Training Program in Neuroscience, students pursue a program of study in the neurosciences, including a required course on the neuropsychopharmacology of substance abuse and an accompanying seminar series involving the NIDA Training Program faculty. The NIDA Training Program in Neuroscience consists of 18 affiliated faculty, all of whom conduct research related to the biological basis of substance abuse. Most of the faculty is either a principal or co-investigator o a NIDA-funded research grant. The core faculty members have changed since the prior funding cycle, with 7 new faculty replacing those who are no longer conducting relevant research at the University of Michigan. Most of these new faculty members are considered junior investigators; thus, there is a plan in place for more senior faculty to serve as co-mentors for any trainees that join a junior faculty's lab. In addition, the faculty affiliated with this training grant is assistd by over 120 Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty who are also involved in many aspects of the training. The training grant is used primarily to foster interest in students to do research rotatins in a laboratory that studies the neurobiology of substance abuse, and to ultimately choose one of these labs for their dissertation work. In addition, we hope to maintain their interest in substance abuse research throughout their dissertation work with journal clubs, seminar series and social events that will be open to all current and previous trainees supported by this training grant. The NIDA Training Program in Neuroscience is administered by a Director and a Co-Director, and now includes a Director of Student Development in order to enhance the experience of the trainees.