The Cedars-Sinai Immunobiology Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：锡达斯-西奈医学中心(CSMC)建议建立一个新的T32研究计划，为三名博士后研究员提供两年的基础实验室和教学培训资金支持。生物医学领域拥有博士学位的博士后研究人员需要两个名额，一个名额指定给医学博士后研究员。这两类受训者的基本先决条件将是对进行与免疫生物学相关的转化研究的兴趣和能力，以及获得重大外部研究资金的潜力，特别是NIH的资金。我们汇聚了19位优秀的教师导师，他们将参与博士后学员的专业化和科学化发展。我们的目标是培养基础和翻译免疫生物学研究人员，他们拥有成功成为免疫生物学独立学术研究人员和进行翻译研究所需的技能。该计划得到CSMC在免疫生物学研究方面迅速增长的实力的支持，包括非常强大的由NIH支持的教师导师组合，以及在机构层面上创建的Cedars-Sinai生物医学和转化医学研究生计划和Cedars-Sinai临床学者计划。这些新的项目已经成功地吸引了才华横溢的少数族裔博士后和博士后研究实习生进入免疫生物学领域，这对CSMC的免疫生物学研究的未来是一个好兆头。我们建议的计划将为学员提供分子、细胞和基础免疫学、免疫系统是病因或促成因素的人类疾病的病理生物学以及翻译和临床免疫生物学方面的课程和研讨会。有一套优秀的翻译基础设施已牢固建立起来，拟议的计划将与之紧密结合。还将有机会随时接触到临床免疫生物学研究人员，以及所服务的患者群体中无与伦比的多样性，这在走向个性化医疗的过程中将是无价的。我们的目标是将我们的计划整合为一流的机制，以培训下一代免疫生物学研究人员 相关性：锡达斯-西奈医学中心提议向博士后研究员(两名博士后研究员和一名博士后研究员)提供基础和翻译免疫生物学研究的新培训计划，该计划将在一个以免疫生物学疾病临床护理闻名的主要医疗中心提供基础和翻译免疫生物学的课程工作和实验室培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) proposes to establish a new T32 research program that will offer funding support for two years of basic laboratory and didactic training to three postdoctoral fellows. Two slots are requested for postdoctoral researchers with a Ph.D. degree in a biomedical field, and one slot is earmarked for an M.D. postdoctoral fellow. Fundamental prerequisites for both categories of trainees will be demonstrated interest and ability in conducting translational research relevant to immunobiology, and the potential for obtaining major extramural research funding, particularly NIH funding. We have assembled 19 outstanding Faculty Mentors who will participate in the professional and scientific development of the Postdoctoral Trainees. Our goal is to train basic and translational immunobiology researchers who have the necessary skills to succeed as independent academic investigators in Immunobiology and conduct translational research. This program is supported by rapidly growing strength in immunobiology research at CSMC, including a very strong portfolio of NIH-supported Faculty Mentors, and on an institutional level by the creation of the Cedars-Sinai Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Translational Medicine and the Cedars-Sinai Clinical Scholars program. These new Programs have already succeeded in attracting highly talented underrepresented minority predoctoral students and postdoctoral research trainees to the field of immunobiology, which bodes well for the future of immunobiology research at CSMC. The program we propose will offer trainees courses and seminars in molecular, cellular and basic immunology, the pathobiology of human diseases where the immune system is a cause or contributing factor, and translational and clinical immunobiology. There is an outstanding translational infrastructure firmly established that the proposed program will closely integrate with. There will also be ready access to clinical immunobiology investigators, and an unparalleled diversity in the patient population served that will be invaluable in the move towards personalized medical care. We aim to meld our program into a first-rate mechanism that will train the next generation of immunobiologic investigators RELEVANCE: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center proposes to offer a new training program in basic and translational immunobiology research to postdoctoral fellows (two postdoctoral Ph.D. fellows and one post-doctoral M.D. fellow) that will offer course work and laboratory training in basic and translational immunobiology at a major medical center renowned for clinical care in immunobiologic diseases.