Core DResearch Experience Training Coordination (RETCC)

亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB）的目标-研究经验和培训协调 核心（UAB-RETCC）是提供环境健康科学的多学科和跨学科培训， 培育、激励和协作的环境。该计划将支持2-3年的结构化和 严格的研究培训的研究生就读于UAB研究生生物医学科学（GBS; 博士候选人）和博士后研究员（MD，博士，或合并MD，博士）。的多学科性质 拟议的培训是由24名教师导师谁持有的主要任命的多样性促进 医学院、工程学院、公共卫生学院和文理学院，是 UAB大学跨学科研究中心（UWIRCs）。为配合研究计划， 培训核心将支持研究生和博士后学员（在整个培训期间， 在这个项目的每一年。我们建议逐步增加实习生名额：3、4、5、6和6个， 分别为1年至5年。教师导师已被分为四个主题领域的基础上， 科学专长：（1）环境卫生和肺病;（2）环境科学和工程;（3） 少数民族健康和健康差距;（4）社会科学和研究设计。多学科和跨学科 培训的结构将通过从不同的学校挑选的教师对所有学员的共同指导来促进。 专题小组。UAB-RETCC将允许学生/学员在肺细胞方面进行严格的教育和培训 分子生物学、生理学和疾病发病机制，重点是慢性阻塞性肺 疾病（COPD）、哮喘和肺部感染。环境和工程研究经验将 为学员提供毒理学、气体/金属传感技术、质谱分析方面的技能和专业知识， 补救/缓解。除了将在导师实验室进行的研究项目外， 培训将包括一个高度结构化的教学计划，包括（1）“生存技能”课程， 与UAB博士后教育办公室和临床和转化中心合作 科学，（2）与深南职业安全与健康合作的研究核心课程 教育和研究中心，（3）与教育和研究中心合作， 综合少数民族和健康差异研究中心和（4）研究设计与 UAB公共卫生学院的流行病学家和环境卫生科学家。强烈强调将 在征聘和保留代表性不足的少数群体方面，应采取措施。正式的指导将包括学习 设计包括公共卫生学院的环境卫生科学课程。在完成 培训计划，学员将准备组装，启动和领导研究项目，重点是慢性 阻塞性肺病、哮喘、肺部感染以及环境和工程。

The goal of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)-Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (UAB-RETCC) is to provide multi- and trans-disciplinary training in environmental health sciences in a nurturing, stimulating and collaborative environment. The program will support 2-3 years of structured and rigorous research training for graduate students enrolled in the UAB Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS; PhD candidates) and postdoctoral fellows (MD, PhD, or combined MD, PhD). The multidisciplinary nature of the proposed training is fostered by the diversity of 24 faculty mentors who hold primary appointments in the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Public Health and the College of Arts and Sciences, and are members of UAB University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Centers (UWIRCs). In concert with the Research Projects, the training core will support both graduate students and postdoctoral trainees (~2:1 ratio over the duration of the RETCC) in each year of this program. We propose an incremental increase in trainee slots: 3, 4, 5, 6, and 6 in years 1 through 5, respectively. The faculty mentors have been grouped into four thematic areas based on scientific expertise: (1) environmental health and lung disease; (2) environmental science and engineering; (3) minority health and health disparities; and (4) social sciences and study design. Multi- and transdisciplinary structure of the training will be facilitated by co-mentoring of all trainees by faculty selected from different thematic groups. The UAB-RETCC will allow students/trainees rigorous education and training in lung cellular and molecular biology, physiology, and disease pathogenesis with an emphasis on chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), asthma, and pulmonary infections. Environmental and engineering research experiences will provide trainees with skills and expertise in toxicology, gas/metal sensing technology, mass spectrometry, and remediation/mitigation. In addition to the research projects that will be conducted in the mentors’ laboratories, training will encompass a highly structured didactic program that includes (1) a “survival skills” curriculum in collaboration with the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Education and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, (2) a research core curriculum in collaboration with the Deep South Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center, (3) training in minority health/disparities concerns in collaboration with the Comprehensive Minority and Health Disparities Research Center and (4) study design in collaboration with epidemiologists and environmental health scientists at the UAB School of Public Health. Strong emphasis will be placed on the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities. Formal instruction will include study design including environmental health sciences courses at the School of Public Health. By completion of the training program, trainees will be prepared to assemble, launch and lead research projects focused on chronic obstructive lung disease, asthma, pulmonary infections, and environmental and engineering.