Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Disease

心血管疾病跨学科培训计划为5名 博士前和5名博士后博士或医学博士研究员。该计划强调血管研究培训 生物学/血栓形成、炎症、输血医学、心脏细胞生物学和心血管基因组学 疾病沿着使能技术，包括生物信息学，干细胞生物学和生物工程。的 我们的培训计划的目标是双重的：为博士生提供优秀的研究培训和地方 他们的研究工作在接触到心血管医学的临床和转化主题的背景下， 而对于MD学员，则与其领域前沿的基础研究人员保持一致，并雇用国家 最先进的技术，以协助发展医生科学家能够追求有竞争力的职业， 临床科学家我们的29名教师来自14个基础科学和临床 部门/有组织的研究中心/研究所位于医学院和药学院， 位于巴尔的摩的马里兰州大学和位于帕克学院的马里兰州大学工程学院。 博士后研究员包括博士和MD学员，来自所有参与部门/组织 研究中心/研究所。博士前的实习生是从我们的跨部门的伞毕业生 医学院生命科学课程，以及制药科学研究生课程 该计划在药学院和生物工程学院的财务部门。 重点是征聘和保留任职人数不足的群体， 培训学院的多样性。我们培训的主要教学方面涉及三个一学期 关于血管和干细胞生物学以及心脏细胞生理学的跨学科课程，这些课程是团队授课的 由该计划的教师和我们的学员以及国家的最先进的实验室方法课程深受欢迎 向学员介绍成像技术、表面等离子体共振、生物信息学、蛋白质组学、流程 细胞计量学、结构生物学和基因组学。每月一次的“研究进展”系列研讨会由 学员和培训计划的教师和其他关键研究人员的支持，这提供了一个机会， 为学员和培训教师之间的互动，并确保严格的培训过程。额外 教学部分已经专门为医学博士学员开发，他们以前很少接触实验室 研究，为他们成为成功的医生科学家奠定基础。博士生暴露在 通过一个新颖的“生物技术桥梁”计划， 当地的生物技术公司。从这个计划的所有学员都配备了多学科和国家- 最先进的方法来研究心血管疾病的基本问题，并由 经验丰富，敬业的教师，让他们成功，无论是在生物技术行业或作为科学家在 学者。

The Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Disease provides interdisciplinary training for 5 predoctoral and 5 postdoctoral PhD or MD fellows. This program emphasizes research training in vascular biology/thombosis, inflammation, transfusion medicine, cardiac cell biology and genomics of cardiovascular disease along with enabling technologies that include bioinformatics, stem cell biology and bioengineering. The goals of our training program are twofold: to provide PhD trainees with outstanding research training and to place their investigative work in context by exposure to clinical and translational topics in cardiovascular medicine, while for MD trainees, to align then with basic researchers at the forefront of their field and employing state-of- the-art technology to assist in developing physician scientists capable of pursuing competitive careers as clinician scientists. Our 29 faculty members are derived from 14 basic science and clinical Departments/Organized Research Centers/Institutes located within the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Postdoctoral fellows include PhD and MD trainees and are derived from all participating Departments/Organized Research Centers/Institutes. Pre-doctoral trainees are drawn from our interdepartmental umbrella Graduate Program in Life Sciences in the School of Medicine, as well as from the Pharmaceutical Science graduate program in the School of Pharmacy and the Fischell Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering. Emphasis is placed on the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups and the incorporation of diversity in the Training Faculty. The major didactic aspect of our training involve three one-semester interdisciplinary courses on vascular and stem-cell biology and cardiac cell physiology, which are team-taught by the program faculty and well-received by our trainees as well as a state-of-the-art laboratory method course to introduce trainees to imaging technologies, surface plasmon resonance, bioinformatics, proteomics, flow cytometry, structural biology and genomics. A monthly “Research In-Progress” seminar series is presented by trainees and supported by the training program faculty and other key researchers which provides an opportunity for interaction amongst trainees and training faculty and ensures rigor in the training process. An additional didactic component has been developed specifically for MD trainees with minimal prior exposure to laboratory research, setting the groundwork for them to become successful physician scientists. PhD trainees are exposed to opportunities in the Biotech industry through a novel “Bridges To Biotech” program that interfaces trainees with local Biotech companies. All trainees from this program are well equipped with multidisciplinary and state- of-the-art approaches to investigate fundamental problems in Cardiovascular disease and are mentored by experienced and dedicated faculty to allow them to succeed, whether in the Biotech industry or as scientists in academics.