Neuroscience Training Program

项目摘要/摘要 此续订申请要求支持集成的、基础广泛的、多学科的 爱荷华大学神经科学专业一年级和二年级学生的博士前培训。这个 应用程序建立在三十多年来在录取、培训和安置一流人才方面的成功基础上 博士生。我们的计划以成熟的领导为特色(通过增加一名副主任来加强)， 我们的申请者群体的质量、深度、多样性和地理广度持续10年的增长，以及 最近，受资助的神经科学教职员工数量急剧增加。该计划借鉴了悠久的合作传统 基础和临床科学家之间的合作，以及强烈的翻译重点。机构支持是例外的。这个 培训学院由52名经验丰富、资金雄厚的神经科学家组成，他们的研究兴趣涵盖了 神经科学，20名导师是临床医生兼科学家。学生们参加经过精心磨练的课程 它提供了分析水平和方法多样性的广泛和基本的培训，并提供了一个专门的 专注于疾病和障碍的神经科学(包括非常成功的疾病神经生物学 当然)。有关于实验设计、统计方法和量化技能的强化培训，以及 识字(通过开设新的高级量化培训必修课而得到加强)和专业技能 发展(通过在教学、口头/书面交流、 网络/技能培养和资质)，以及使用个人的详细年度评估 发展规划。该方案包括三次实验室轮换、定期方案活动 (研讨会、研究日、期刊俱乐部)，以及负责任的研究行为的综合培训。这个 “附加值”尤其令人信服--美国国立卫生研究院培训补助金将加强我们计划的方方面面， 对持续的成功做出了直接贡献，其特点是突出的时间到学位(20年平均 5.2年)，生产力(每名学生5.1篇，第一作者2.9篇)，毕业率(约80%)， 将毕业生安置在出色的神经科学职业中(在过去的20年里，我们51%的毕业生 终身教职或终身教职)和多样性成就(约占我们目前 学生群体是多样化的；过去10年我们录取的学生中有三分之一[30/91]是多样化的； 这些学生在完成学业和安排就业方面取得了出色的成绩)。以维护和扩展这些功能 为了提高成绩，续签申请要求每年提供8个名额，以支持一年级和二年级学生。

Project Summary/Abstract This renewal application requests support for integrated, broad-based, fundamental, multidisciplinary predoctoral training of first- and second-year students in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa. The application builds on more than three decades of success in matriculating, training, and placing top-caliber PhD students. Our Program features mature leadership (enhanced by the addition of an Associate Director), a sustained 10-year increase in the quality, depth, diversity, and geographic breadth of our applicant pool, and a sharp recent increase in funded neuroscience faculty. The Program draws on a long tradition of collaborations between basic and clinical scientists and a strong translational focus. Institutional support is exceptional. The Training Faculty are 52 experienced, well-funded neuroscientists with research interests that span the gamut of neuroscience, and 20 preceptors are clinician-scientists. Students participate in a carefully honed curriculum that offers broad and fundamental training in levels of analysis and diversity of approaches, with a special focus on the neuroscience of disease and disorders (including a very successful Neurobiology of Disease course). There is intensive training in experimental design, statistical methodology, and quantitative skills and literacy (enhanced by a new required course in Advanced Quantitative Training) and in professional skills development (enhanced by new curricular components in teaching, oral/written communication, networking/skill building, and grantsmanship), and detailed annual evaluation using the Individual Developmental Plan. The Program incorporates three laboratory rotations, regular programmatic activities (Seminar, Research Day, journal clubs), and comprehensive training in responsible conduct of research. The “value-added” is especially compelling—NIH training grant dollars enhance every aspect of our Program and have contributed directly to sustained successes marked by outstanding time to degree (20-year average of 5.2 years), productivity (5.1 publications per student, 2.9 as first author), completion rate (around 80%), placement of graduates in stellar neuroscience careers (over the past two decades, 51% of our graduates are in tenured or tenure-track academic positions), and diversity accomplishments (some 33% of our current student cohort is diverse; one-third [30/91] of our matriculated students over the past 10 years are diverse; these students have outstanding completion and placement outcomes). To maintain and extend these accomplishments, this renewal request asks for 8 slots per year to support first- and second-year students.