The Emory Training Program in Lung Health

项目总结/摘要 埃默里肺部健康培训计划已进入第四个年头，于2013年8月1日开始，目标是 培养高度协作的MD，MD/PhD和PhD博士后翻译研究人员，他们可以将 我们在社会中促进肺部健康的能力。在目前的第一个5年资助期内，该计划支持 四个博士后培训名额和两个短期的夏季奖学金，每年为非洲裔美国人的医疗 莫尔豪斯医学院的学生该计划是由卢安布朗，博士和大卫 Guidot，医学博士;在下一个资助期（6-10年），他们加入了迈克哈特，医学博士。这些联合董事是 长期合作者，无论是在他们的研究计划，并在他们的领导T32支持的博士后 在埃默里大学学习了15年。他们招募了多学科的导师 来自埃默里大学医学院和罗林斯公共卫生学院。该方案及其 教师导师几乎涵盖了肺生物学的各个方面，但明确的卓越领域包括 囊性纤维化、肺血管疾病、肺免疫学、氧化还原转化研究 生物学，代谢组学，气道上皮生物学，肺先天防御和感染，以及HIV-和 酒精介导的肺病博士后MD和MD/PhD研究员将从多个 优秀的奖学金培训计划，在儿科和医学系，从教师 导师们被吸引了。博士后研究员将从合格候选人的国家人才库中招募， 以及在研究生部完成博士预科教育的当地博士生 在埃默里大学兰尼研究生院的生物和生物医学科学。两个短- 学期暑期研究生将从莫尔豪斯医学院招募，该计划 董事与学生事务主任建立了良好的关系，并有丰富的培训历史 在过去的十年里，他们的顶尖学生。受训人员在合作研究活动中工作， 获得广泛的机构资源，包括临床研究科学硕士 该计划已被证明是一个宝贵的经验，为我们的大量博士后研究员， 在过去的15年里，初级教师。我们的培训计划已经填补了所有的职位，并根据 多样化和大量的优秀候选人加上教师导师的能力，我们是 要求在6-8年级逐步增加博士后职位的数量，这样我们就可以 达到我们的最佳规模八个职位前进。肺部健康是我们社会的一个巨大挑战， 肺部疾病在发病率和死亡率方面构成日益增加的全球负担。有 培训来自不同背景和学科的调查人员，并为他们提供 协作技能，以应对这一挑战，并改善整个生命周期的肺部健康。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Emory Training Program in Lung Health is in its 4th year, having begun on August 1st, 2013 with the goal of training highly collaborative MD, MD/PhD and PhD post-doctoral translational investigators who can transform our ability to promote lung health in our society. In the current first 5-year funding period the Program supports four post-doctoral training slots and two short-term summer fellowships per year for African-American medical students from the Morehouse School of Medicine. The Program is directed by Lou Ann Brown, PhD and David Guidot, MD; for the next funding period (Years 6-10) they are joined by Mike Hart, MD. These co-directors are long-time collaborators, both in their research programs and in their leadership of T32-supported post-doctoral training at Emory University for the past fifteen years. They have enlisted a multidisciplinary faculty of mentors from the School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. The Program and its faculty mentors encompass nearly every facet of pulmonary biology, but clear areas of excellence include translational research in Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Pulmonary Immunology, Redox Biology, Metabolomics, Airway Epithelial Biology, Pulmonary Innate Defense and Infections, and HIV- and alcohol-mediated lung disease. Post-doctoral MD and MD/PhD fellows will be recruited from the multiple outstanding fellowship training programs in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine from which the faculty mentors are drawn. Post-doctoral PhD fellows will be recruited from the national pool of qualified candidates as well as from the local pool of doctoral students completing their pre-doctoral education in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences within the Laney Graduate School at Emory University. The two short- term summer research students will be recruited from the Morehouse School of Medicine where the Program Directors have an established relationship with the Dean of Student Affairs and a substantial training history with their top students over the past decade. Trainees work in collaborative research activities and have access to a wide range of institutional resources including the Masters of Science in Clinical Research Program that has proven to be an invaluable experience for a large number of our post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty over the past fifteen years. Our Training Program has filled all of its positions and in light of the diverse and large pools of outstanding candidates coupled with the capacity of the faculty mentors we are requesting a graduated increase in the number of post-doctoral positions over Years 6-8 such that we can reach our optimal size of eight positions going forward. Lung health is an enormous challenge in our society, with lung diseases accounting for an ever increasing global burden in morbidity and mortality. There are compelling reasons to train investigators from diverse backgrounds and disciplines and provide them with the collaborative skills to meet this challenge and improve lung health across the lifespan.