Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering

描述(由申请人提供)： 本提案描述了心血管生物医学工程的跨学科培训计划，致力于培养博士前学生。学生将接受生物和工程学科的多学科教育，重点是心血管健康。该计划的一个主要目标是满足不断增长的生物医学工程领域和跨学科劳动力的需求。该项目利用了亚利桑那大学在生物工程和心血管生物学方面的强大专业知识。专业领域包括：生物力学、生物材料、光学、分子遗传学、血管生理学、放射学、成像、组织工程、基因工程和生物计算。培训教师是独立的研究人员，他们共同致力于研究生培训。该学院的教职员工一直以来都给予大力支持，并积极参与合作研究活动。包括临床教师和通过生物医学工程研究生计划提供的工业实习计划的参与将促进受训人员的翻译研究项目。该计划内的培训包括实验室和教学经验。授课部分包括核心生物医学工程研究生课程，提供许多可选的研究生课程，以及定期安排的论坛和研讨会。学员的进度由学员的导师、学员的顾问委员会、培训资助计划委员会和他们各自的研究生项目监督。该项目的研究集中在三个一般领域：与心血管系统相关的植入物、组织工程和成像。在这些广泛的领域中，参与实验室正在研究的课题包括：组织工程血管、微血管工程学、血管生物力学、血管建模、激光血管成像、血管灌注的超声和磁共振、心血管仪器、血管基因组学、蛋白质组学和生物信息学以及血管组织的分子诊断学。该培训项目的毕业生将在心血管生物医学工程方面接受多学科培训，成为独立的思考者。(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes an interdisciplinary training program in Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering dedicated to training predoctoral students. Students will receive a multidisciplinary education in the biological and engineering disciplines focusing on cardiovascular health. A major goal of this program is to meet the demands of a growing biomedical engineering field and interdisciplinary workforce. This program takes advantage of the strong expertise in bioengineering and cardiovascular biology present at the University of Arizona. Areas of expertise include: biomechanics, biomaterials, optics, molecular genetics, vascular physiology, radiology, imaging, tissue engineering, genetic engineering, and biocomputing. Training faculty are independent researchers with a shared commitment to graduate training. The faculty has a strong record of support and is actively involved in collaborative research activities. Inclusion of clinical faculty and participation in the Industrial Internship Program available through the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program will foster translational research projects for trainees. Training within this program involves laboratory and didactic experience. The didactic component includes the core biomedical engineering graduate curriculum, the availability of numerous elective graduate courses and regularly scheduled forums and seminars. Progress of the trainees is monitored by the trainee's mentor, the student's advisory committee, a training grant program committee and their respective graduate program. Research in the program is focused in three general areas: Implants, Tissue Engineering and Imaging as related to the cardiovascular system. Within these broad areas, topics being investigated in participating laboratories are: tissue engineered blood vessels, microvascular engineering, vascular biomechanics, vascular modeling, vascular imaging by laser, ultrasound and magnetic resonance of vascular perfusion, cardiovascular instrumentation, vascular genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics and molecular diagnostics of vascular tissues. Graduates of this training program will be independent thinkers with multidisciplinary training in cardiovascular biomedical engineering. (End of Abstract)