MEDICAL SCIENTIST NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD

描述（由申请人提供）：美国芝加哥医学科学家培训计划向美国国立卫生研究院提交此更新申请，以继续并扩展其在下个世纪对生物医学领域杰出领导者的培训。我们要求为48个MSTP职位提供资金，比目前推荐的职位（44个推荐/36个资助）增加4个。在要求的支持水平下，NIH的资金将覆盖大约25%的项目成本，其余部分由机构资源提供。我们计划招收12名学生，预计在8年内毕业。美国芝加哥普利兹克医学院的医学家培训计划已经存在了37年，不间断的资助和卓越的学术医生领导职位的培训记录（包括UCSF和哈佛大学mstp的董事）。毕业生193人，发表论文1500余篇。目前有68人参加了该项目，其中6%为男性，30%为女性。在过去的五年中，有34名学生从该项目毕业，38名学生进入该项目。延续其毕业生的传统，我们现在的MSTP学生在Nature， Science, Cell, Immunity， Journal of Biological Chemistry等顶级期刊上发表了大量文章。在这份建议书中，我们提供了令人信服和详细的证据，证明我们学生的卓越素质和芝加哥大学严格的培训环境，这种环境是为支持跨学科项目（如MSTP）而独特配置的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The U. Chicago Medical Scientist Training Program submits this renewal application to the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand into the next century its training of outstanding leaders in the biomedical field. We request funding for 48 MSTP positions, an increase of 4 from the currently recommended slots (44 recommended/36 funded). At the requested level of support, NIH funding will cover approximately 25% of the program's costs, the rest being provided by institutional resources. We plan to recruit matriculating classes of 12 students who are expected to graduate in 8 years. The Medical Scientist Training Program at the U. Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has been in existence for 37 years with uninterrupted funding and a superb training record of academic physicians in leadership positions (including directorships of MSTPs at UCSF and Harvard). It has graduated 193 students who have published over 1500 papers. Currently 68 individuals are enrolled in the program including 6% URM and 30% women. In the last five years, 34 students graduated from the Program and 38 students entered it. Continuing in the tradition of its graduates, our current MSTP students have published extensively in top journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Immunity, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and others. In this proposal we provide compelling and detailed evidence on the superb quality of our students and the rigorous training environment at Chicago which is uniquely configured to support interdisciplinary programs such as the MSTP.