Nutrition & Cardiovascular Disease Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 此培训补助金申请的目的是产生良好的合格的学生获得在杰拉尔德J的营养和心血管疾病领域博士学位的支持。塔夫茨大学弗里德曼营养科学与政策学院。 培训方案的具体目标是：（1）向受训者提供营养、心血管疾病、基础科学和医学伦理等领域的严格教学培训;（2）创造一个支持性环境，在其中指导受训者进行独立研究;（3）培养每个受训者必要的沟通技能，以口头和书面形式有效传播研究数据; 4）使收购多学科培训，使每个受训者的竞争力后，他们的正式培训结束; 5）灌输必要的技能，成为一个独立的调查员能够产生研究资金; 6）开发什么是负责任的研究行为的透彻理解;和7）安全的博士后职位上完成该计划。 该计划的教师来自广泛的学科;每个成员目前指导一个充满活力的研究计划，并具有广泛的研究者间合作的历史。 他们在脂质和脂蛋白，遗传学，叶酸/同型半胱氨酸（流行病学和基础科学），肥胖，心血管疾病风险因素和机制，维生素K，免疫学，血管生物学，营养评估，心脏功能和氧化应激，动脉粥样硬化斑块稳定性等领域提供专业知识。 这种环境是由塔夫茨大学，塔夫茨大学医学院和萨克勒研究生生物医学科学学院的让·迈耶美国农业部人类营养研究中心的综合资源补充的，这些资源共同提供了一个肥沃的环境，使博士生可以实现上述目标。 大波士顿地区各机构的专题讨论会、研讨会和会议进一步补充了这些资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this Training Grant application is to generate support for well qualified students to earn a doctoral degree in the area nutrition and cardiovascular disease at the Gerald J. & Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University. The specific aims of the training program are to: 1) provide trainees with rigorous didactic training in the areas of nutrition, cardiovascular disease, basic sciences and medical ethics; 2) create a supportive environment within which trainees are guided through the process of conducting independent research; 3)develop in each trainee communication skills necessary to effectively disseminate research data in both oral and written form; 4) enable the acquisition to multidisciplinary training to make each trainee competitive upon conclusion of their formal training; 5) instill the skills necessary to become an independent investigator capable of generating research funding; 6) develop a thorough understanding of what constitutes responsible conduct of research; and 7) secure a postdoctoral position on completion of the program. The Program Faculty is drawn from a broad range of disciplines; each member currently directs a vibrant research program and has an extensive history of inter-investigator collaboration. They contribute expertise in the areas of lipids and lipoproteins, genetics, folate/homocysteine (epidemiology and basic science), obesity, cardiovascular disease risk factors and mechanisms, vitamin K, immunology, vascular biology, nutrition assessment, cardiac function and oxidative stress, and atherosclerotic plaque stability. This environment is supplemented by the combined resources of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences that together provide a fertile environment in which predoctoral students can fulfill the aforementioned aims. The symposia, seminars and meetings of institutions in the greater Boston area further serve to supplement these resources.