BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM

我们为弗吉尼亚大学新成立的生物技术培训计划（BTP）寻求五年的支持。 在资助的头四年里，我们将BTP建成了一个高度互动的博士生社区， 一年一度的春季竞赛向全校所有科学和工程系的博士生开放。BTP学生在 培训（16）或毕业（2;加上几个今年夏天）进入平均本科GPA为3.53，包括两个少数民族， 目前由七个不同的部门主办。一名受训人员获得了弗吉尼亚大学基础课程的最佳研究生奖， 零三年的医学，还有一个是亚军，最近还有一个是零四年的提名。学员已发表28篇同行 我审查了文章，提交了69篇摘要，经历了9次不同的公司实习，并计划在美国再做8次 及海外受训人员直接负责BTP的方案特点，包括： 通讯，组织BTP少数民族日，高中外联活动，在其他机构展示BTP海报，组织 BTP研讨会，社交活动，新生晚宴，BTP研讨会和BTP网站。指导我们的学员是一个高度 从事，协作和资金充足的教师37个人从部门全国排名由NIH资助， #3（细胞生物学）和#5（微生物学）。机构支持对于我们的成功至关重要，尤其是重要的 研究生课程办公室在日常管理程序的作用。同样重要的是， 三个额外的插槽由工程和医学院长，并热情组织公司图尔斯和externships由 健康科学发展办公室。我们认为BTP的使命有三个方面：（i）最重要的是培养我们的学生做 最好的科学可能，（ii）通过我们的实习计划提供工业科学的有意义的经验，以及（iii） 通过定期的BTP期刊俱乐部/数据会议，研讨会，促进不同学科的BTP学生之间的科学协同作用 和座谈会。我们认为，在下面的竞争性更新，在这些领域的每一个成功已经实现，从而 帮助培养新一代的年轻科学家，他们用分析的头脑和 广泛的现代技术。

We seek five more years of support for the newly established Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at the University of Virginia. In the first four years of funding we have built the BTP into a highly interactive community of PhD trainees drawn selectively from an annual Spring competition open to PhD students from all science and engineering departments university-wide. BTP students in training (16) or graduated (2; plus several this summer) entered with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.53, include two minorities, and are currently hosted by seven different departments. One trainee received the top graduate student award in UVa's basic medical sciences in '03, another was runnerup, and a third was recently nominated for '04. Trainees have published 28 peer reviewed articles, submitted 69 abstracts, experienced nine different company externships, and are planning eight more in the US and overseas. Trainees have taken direct responsibility for programmatic features of the BTP including: editorship of the BTP newsletter, organization of BTP Minority Day, high school outreach, BTP poster presentations at other institutions, organization of BTP seminars, social activities, new student dinner, BTP Symposia, and the BTP website. Mentoring our trainees is a highly engaged, collaborative and well-funded faculty of thirty-seven individualsfrom departments nationally ranked by NIH funding as high as #3 (Cell Biology) and #5 (Microbiology). Institutional support has been essential for our success, particularly the important role of the Graduate Programs Office in day to day administration of the Program. Also important has been sustained funding of three extra slots by the Deans of Engineering and Medicine, and the enthusiastic organization of company tours and externships by the Health Science Development Office. We view the BTP's mission as threefold: (i) most importantly to train our students to do the best science possible, (ii) to provide a meaningful experience in industrial science via our externship program, and (iii) to promote scientific synergy among BTP students of different disciplines through regular BTP Journal Clubs/Data Sessions, Seminars and Symposia. We argue in the following competitive renewal that success in each of these areas has been achieved, thereby helping to develop a new generation of young scientists who approach new scientific challenges with analytical minds and an extensive array of modern technologies.