Graduate Training Program in Biotechnology

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们寻求更新我们长期的生物技术培训计划，该计划具有在学术界和工业界培养有成就的领导者的历史。随着知识、方法和应用的扩展，生物技术作为一个领域正在扩大和成熟。与此同时，工业界正在形成一个新的领域，重点是预防、诊断和治疗疾病的生物技术。现在，比以往任何时候都更需要跨学科的培训和认识，以使生物技术人员具有最佳的生产力，并对世界产生影响。斯坦福大学提供了一个异常丰富的生物技术环境，与共同定位，全国排名的学校致力于基础科学，工程和医学，以及强大的工业存在，从周围的湾区。我们将利用这种环境来培养有才华的学生，他们将成为下一代全球生物技术创新者和领导者。该计划将来自整个大学8个部门的28名调查人员融合到一个高度可见的计划中，以提供丰富的，以应用为导向的培训体验，该培训体验独特地专注于与健康相关的生物技术。许多独特的功能区分这个培训计划，包括丰富的课程设置，工业实习，实地考察，生物技术研讨会，并与其他学员和学术和工业导师定期和详细的互动。在教师，学员，NIH官员和工业附属机构的投入的指导下，我们通过实施对合成生物学，药物发现和开发以及与这些领域相关的工具和技术的进步的更突出重点，制定了一个更具凝聚力的培训计划。这一演变认识到戏剧性的教师扩张和新的举措，在斯坦福大学对这些追求，并激发了教师任命的培训计划的重大变化。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We seek renewal of our long-standing biotechnology training program, which has a history of producing accomplished leaders in academia and industry. Biotechnology is broadening and maturing as a field with an expansion of knowledge, methods, and applications. In parallel, industry has been shaping a new field focused on biotechnology for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Now, more than ever before, interdisciplinary training and awareness is critically needed for biotechnologists to be optimally productive and to make an impact on the world. Stanford provides an unusually rich biotechnology environment, with co- located, nationally ranked schools devoted to basic science, engineering, and medicine, and a strong industrial presence from the surrounding Bay Area. We will leverage this environment to train talented students who will become the next-generation of global biotechnology innovators and leaders. The program fuses 28 investigators from 8 departments across the university into a highly visible program to deliver a rich, applications-oriented training experience that is uniquely focused on health-related biotechnology. Many unique features differentiate this training program, including rich curricular offerings, industrial internships, field trips, biotechnology symposia, and regular and detailed interactions with other trainees and with academic and industrial mentors. Guided by input from faculty, trainees, NIH officials, and industrial affiliates, we evolved a more cohesive training program by implementing a sharper focus on synthetic biology, pharmaceutical discovery and development, and advancements in tools and technologies related to these areas. This evolution recognizes dramatic faculty expansion and new initiatives at Stanford toward these pursuits and has motivated major changes in preceptor appointment to the training program.