Neuroscience Training Program

项目总结/摘要 这一更新申请要求支持综合的、基础广泛的、基础的、多学科的 爱荷华州大学神经科学专业一年级和二年级学生的博士前培训。的 应用程序建立在超过三十年的成功录取，培训，并放置顶级口径 博士生。我们的计划具有成熟的领导力（通过增加副主任增强）， 持续10年的质量增长，深度，多样性，我们的申请人池的地理广度，以及 最近神经科学系的资助急剧增加。该计划借鉴了长期的合作传统 基础科学家和临床科学家之间的合作，以及强大的翻译重点。机构支持是例外。的 培训教师是52名经验丰富，资金充足的神经科学家，他们的研究兴趣涵盖了 神经科学，20名导师是临床科学家。学生们参加精心打磨的课程 提供分析水平和方法多样性方面的广泛和基本培训， 专注于疾病和障碍的神经科学（包括非常成功的疾病神经生物学） 课程）。有实验设计，统计方法和定量技能的强化培训， 识字（通过高级定量培训的新必修课程提高）和专业技能 发展（通过教学中的新课程组成部分，口头/书面交流， 网络/技能建设和赠款），并使用个人详细的年度评估 发展计划。该计划包括三个实验室轮换，定期计划活动， （研讨会，研究日，期刊俱乐部），并在负责任的研究行为的全面培训。的 “增值”是特别令人信服的-国家卫生研究院培训补助金美元提高我们的计划的各个方面， 直接促成了持续的成功，其特点是出色的学位时间（20年平均 5.2年），生产力（5.1出版物每名学生，2.9作为第一作者），完成率（约80%）， 毕业生在恒星神经科学职业的安置（在过去的二十年中，我们的毕业生中有51%是 在终身或终身轨道学术职位），和多样性的成就（约33%，我们目前的 学生群体是多样化的;在过去10年中，我们录取的学生中有三分之一[30/91]是多样化的; 这些学生在完成学业和分班方面成绩优异）。为了保持和扩大这些 成绩，这一更新请求要求每年8个插槽，以支持一年级和二年级的学生。

Project Summary/Abstract This renewal application requests support for integrated, broad-based, fundamental, multidisciplinary predoctoral training of first- and second-year students in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa. The application builds on more than three decades of success in matriculating, training, and placing top-caliber PhD students. Our Program features mature leadership (enhanced by the addition of an Associate Director), a sustained 10-year increase in the quality, depth, diversity, and geographic breadth of our applicant pool, and a sharp recent increase in funded neuroscience faculty. The Program draws on a long tradition of collaborations between basic and clinical scientists and a strong translational focus. Institutional support is exceptional. The Training Faculty are 52 experienced, well-funded neuroscientists with research interests that span the gamut of neuroscience, and 20 preceptors are clinician-scientists. Students participate in a carefully honed curriculum that offers broad and fundamental training in levels of analysis and diversity of approaches, with a special focus on the neuroscience of disease and disorders (including a very successful Neurobiology of Disease course). There is intensive training in experimental design, statistical methodology, and quantitative skills and literacy (enhanced by a new required course in Advanced Quantitative Training) and in professional skills development (enhanced by new curricular components in teaching, oral/written communication, networking/skill building, and grantsmanship), and detailed annual evaluation using the Individual Developmental Plan. The Program incorporates three laboratory rotations, regular programmatic activities (Seminar, Research Day, journal clubs), and comprehensive training in responsible conduct of research. The “value-added” is especially compelling—NIH training grant dollars enhance every aspect of our Program and have contributed directly to sustained successes marked by outstanding time to degree (20-year average of 5.2 years), productivity (5.1 publications per student, 2.9 as first author), completion rate (around 80%), placement of graduates in stellar neuroscience careers (over the past two decades, 51% of our graduates are in tenured or tenure-track academic positions), and diversity accomplishments (some 33% of our current student cohort is diverse; one-third [30/91] of our matriculated students over the past 10 years are diverse; these students have outstanding completion and placement outcomes). To maintain and extend these accomplishments, this renewal request asks for 8 slots per year to support first- and second-year students.