Training in Oral and Craniofacial Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：口腔和颅面生物学综合培训计划的总体目标是培养高技能，互动的基础和临床科学家，他们能够成功地应对牙科，口腔和颅面研究领域不断扩大的研究机会。在马里兰大学，我们已经证明了在牙科、口腔和颅面研究方面提供灵活而综合的培训机会的能力。通过提供广泛的培训选择，为大学，牙科，博士和dds -博士生以及初级和中期职业教师提供服务，我们计划实现我们在基础，临床和转化研究方面培养独立研究者的主要目标。次要目标是培养个人成为更大的多学科研究团队的重要贡献者，并在我们所有的学生中产生对持续口腔健康研究的需求的赞赏。该培训项目利用了巴尔的摩市和华盛顿特区主要医疗中心之间独特的地理位置，包括一个由60多名知名科学家组成的专家团队，为学生和牙科教师提供指导。培训围绕临床和基础研究的四个主要专题领域组织。这些专题领域的专业知识是硬组织和肿瘤疾病，感染性和自身免疫性疾病，口腔和颅面慢性感觉障碍，口腔和颅面运动障碍。主要的重点放在跨学科的方法，包括基础，转化和临床研究在每个培训项目的整合。为此，我们正在与医学院建立新的伙伴关系。我们计划为博士后牙医提供正式临床培训的新课程，并将研究生教育整合为全校范围内的基础科学和转化科学跨部门研究生课程体系。我们的项目设计包括一个横向组织，让基础和临床研究学员在其中进行跨学科的互动；一个纵向组织，为经验丰富的学员提供培训年轻科学家的机会。我们特别致力于在与改善口腔健康和更好地治疗口腔疾病有关的研究方面增加对代表性不足的少数民族和妇女的培训机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the comprehensive training program in Oral and Craniofacial Biology is to train highly skilled, interactive basic and clinical scientists who can successfully address the expanding research opportunities in dental, oral and craniofacial research. At the University of Maryland, we have demonstrated the ability to provide an environment of flexible but integrated training opportunities in dental, oral and craniofacial research. By offering a broad selection of training options which serves a diverse population of college, dental, PhD and combined DDS-PhD students as well as junior and mid-career faculty, we plan to accomplish our primary objective of developing independent investigators in basic, clinical, and translational research. Secondary objectives are to train individuals to become important contributors to larger multidisciplinary research teams and to generate an appreciation of the need for continued oral health research in all of our students. The training program capitalizes on the unique geographic proximity between major medical centers in the City of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. and includes an expert faculty of more than 60 established scientists to provide mentoring for students and dental faculty. Training is organized around four major thematic areas of strength in clinical and basic research. These thematic areas of expertise are Hard Tissue and Neoplastic Diseases, Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases, Oral and Craniofacial Chronic Sensory Disorders, and Oral and Craniofacial Motor Disorders. Primary emphasis is placed on cross-disciplinary approaches that involve integration of basic, translational and clinical research in each trainee program. Toward this end we are initiating new partnerships with the School of Medicine. We plan to offer a new curriculum of formal clinical training for postdoctoral dentists and we are consolidating our graduate education into a system of campus-wide interdepartmental graduate programs in basic and translational science. Our program design includes a horizontal organization in which basic and clinical research trainees interact across disciplines and a vertical organization which provides more experienced trainees the opportunity to train younger scientists. We are particularly dedicated to enhanced training opportunities for underrepresented minorities and women in research relevant to improvement of oral health and better treatment of oral diseases.