ADVANCED GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM IN NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

描述(由申请者提供)：申请支持一项培训计划，以支持哥伦比亚大学现有的神经生物学和行为学博士学位课程的三年级、四年级和五年级高级研究生的跨学科研究培训和职业生涯发展。神经科学是当代生物医学研究中增长最快的领域之一，其中基本发现越来越多地来自跨学科和协作研究，并正在转化为临床进展。该计划源于对神经科学高级研究生具有特殊相关性和重要性的培训机会的认识，以及在生物医学和神经科学研究领域准备、寻找和维持职业生涯的环境正在发生变化。在此背景下，该计划的主题将是鼓励和支持我们的学生开展现有计划不易支持的新颖、跨学科和协作的论文研究项目，并为他们提供专业的职业发展培训。该计划的88名教职员工将提供研究培训，其中包括具有广泛研究兴趣的神经科学各个领域的领导者。为进一步促进跨学科培训，将支持学生对纽约地区以外的实验室进行短期访问，以学习和应用当地没有的新技术。增强的职业生涯发展培训将包括为我们项目中的高级研究生开设一门新的这一领域的课程，增加目前已有的翻译神经科学课程，并为学生创造机会，让他们接受我们机构内适当医生/科学家关于翻译神经科学职业生涯的指导。整个神经生物学和行为课程的学生总数约为80人。最初要求支持4名高级学生，每年增加1名学生，到5年级达到8名。学生将有资格在头两年的密集教学经验后参加该计划。任命将是竞争性的，遴选将由指定的教职员工委员会进行。 相关性：拟议计划的目标是支持神经科学高级学生的新颖、跨学科和协作研究以及职业生涯发展。神经科学是当代生物医学研究中增长最快的领域之一，在这个领域中，基本发现正在转化为神经和精神疾病的临床进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for a training program to support the interdisciplinary research training and professional career development of advanced graduate students in their third, fourth and fifth years of an existing University-wide, degree-granting Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University. Neuroscience is one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary biomedical research and one in which basic findings are increasingly arising from interdisciplinary and collaborative research and are being translated into clinical advances. The program arises from the recognition that there are training opportunities that are of special relevance and importance to advanced graduate students in neuroscience and that there is a changing landscape for preparing for, finding and sustaining careers in biomedical and neuroscience research. In this context, the themes of the program will be to encourage and support our students in carrying out novel, interdisciplinary and collaborative thesis research projects not easily supported by existing programs and to provide them with professional career development training. Research training will be provided by the 88 faculty in the program, including leaders in various areas of neuroscience with a broad span of research interests. To further facilitate interdisciplinary training, students will be supported for short visits to laboratories outside of the New York area for the purpose of learning and applying novel techniques not available locally. Enhanced professional career development training will include a newly instituted course in this area for advanced graduate students in our program, the augmentation of a currently existing course in translational neuroscience, and creation of opportunities for students to receive guidance on careers in translational neuroscience from appropriate physician/scientists within our institution. Total student enrollment in the overall Neurobiology and Behavioral Program is approximately 80. Support is requested for 4 advanced students initially, with a yearly increment of 1 student to reach a total of 8 by year 5. Students will be eligible for the program after the first two years of intensive instructional experience. Appointment will be competitive and selection will be by a designated faculty committee. RELEVANCE: The goal of the proposed program is to support novel, interdisciplinary and collaborative research as well as professional career development for advanced students in neuroscience. Neuroscience is one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary biomedical research and one in which basic findings are being translated into clinical advances in neurological and psychiatric disorders.