CBT@EmTech - CardioVascular Biomechanics Training Program at Emory and GaTech

项目摘要/摘要 这份T32提案是为了支持一项跨学科的博士前培训项目，该项目的名称为 埃默里大学和佐治亚理工学院的生物力学和机械生物学培训项目“(CBT@EmTech)。 CBT@EmTech的目标是开发一个创新的研究生课程，以培养下一代 心血管生物力学、机械生物学、医学成像、 要解决的计算建模、医疗设备、治疗学发现和交付以及数据科学 翻译相关的心血管生物力学、病理生理学、治疗和诊断学。该计划 是建立在将生物力学应用于心血管疾病领域的开创性研究的悠久历史之上的 在埃默里和佐治亚理工学院。该计划利用了我们在研究和教育方面的长期成功 艾默里和佐治亚理工学院的心血管生物力学和医学。CBT@EmTech实习生将成为 从80个不同的合格学生群体的申请者池中招募，包括女性和 佐治亚理工学院生物医学工程联合系(BME)的少数族裔代表不足 埃默里和佐治亚理工学院的跨学科生物工程(BioE)研究生项目。生物工程专业毕业生 学生来自国内各个部门，包括电气、计算机和机械工程 佐治亚理工学院和埃默里大学的数学、计算机科学和化学系。我们请求 在五年内每年支持六名学生，在第一年和第二年为每个学生提供两年的支持 他们的博士项目中的2个。除了T32支持的职位外，每年还将增加两名学生 一个由埃默里大学资助，另一个由佐治亚理工学院资助，以帮助进一步培训不同的学生群体。所有的 学员将在第一年进行实验室轮换，选出一名导师和共同导师，一名来自医学/生物和 另一个是工程/数据科学，反之亦然，或者一个是生物/工程/数据科学，另一个是 从医学上来说。这将培养和鼓励我们的学生开展多学科、协作和 翻译研究。我们的学员将学习生物科学、工程学和数据方面的基础课程 理科，2)综合生物医学工程课程，3)伦理和多样性培训，4)交流和 专业发展，以及5)心血管生物力学和医学课程高级研讨会 这包括临床观察。CBT@EmTech将增强心血管工作人员的多样性 生物力学和疾病领域，培养他们成为包容性的领导者。我们的学员来自不同的背景 有望成为解决心血管领域未得到满足的转换和临床需求的领导者 生物力学、病理生理学、治疗和诊断学。

Project Abstract/Summary This T32 proposal is for the support of an interdisciplinary, pre-doctoral training program entitled “Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Training Program at Emory University and Georgia Tech” (CBT@EmTech). The goal of CBT@EmTech is to develop an innovative graduate program to train the next generation of cardiovascular leaders at the intersection of cardiovascular biomechanics, mechanobiology, medical imaging, computational modeling, medical devices, therapeutics discovery and delivery, and data science to address translationally relevant cardiovascular biomechanics, pathophysiology, therapies, and diagnostics. The Program is built on a long history of ground-breaking research applying biomechanics to the field of cardiovascular disease at Emory and Georgia Tech. The Program leverages our long-standing successes in research and education in cardiovascular biomechanics and medicine across Emory and Georgia Tech. CBT@EmTech trainees will be recruited from an applicant pool of >80 diverse groups of eligible students, including women and underrepresented minorities from the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory and the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering (BioE) Graduate Program at Georgia Tech. BioE graduate students come from various home Departments, including Electrical and Computer and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Chemistry at Emory. We request support for six students per year over five years to provide two years of support for each student in years 1 and 2 of their PhD program. In addition to the T32-supported positions, two additional students per year will be supported, one by Emory and the other by Georgia Tech, to help further train a diverse group of students. All the trainees will do lab rotations in the first year to select a mentor and co-mentor, one from medicine/biology and the other in engineering/data science, or vice versa, or one from biology/engineering/data science and the other from medicine. This will train and encourage our students to undertake multidisciplinary, collaborative, and translational research. Our trainees will take 1) foundational courses in biosciences, engineering, and data science, 2) integrative biomedical engineering courses, 3) ethics and diversity training, 4) communication and professional development, and 5) the Advanced Seminars in Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Medicine class that include clinical observations. CBT@EmTech will enhance the diversity of the workforce in the cardiovascular biomechanics and disease field and train them to be inclusive leaders. Our trainees from diverse backgrounds are expected to become leaders in addressing unmet translational and clinical needs in cardiovascular biomechanics, pathophysiology, therapies, and diagnostics.