Neuroscience Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：神经科学研究生项目始于1983年，总部设在约翰霍普金斯大学医学院神经科学系。由来自大学各个部门的64个学院组成，它是培养研究生的广泛努力的中心，包括分子、细胞、发育、系统、认知和计算神经科学以及疾病的神经生物学。每年，从200名申请者中，我们通常会录取10-12名博士候选人，以及1-4名医学博士/博士联合候选人。学位（通过单独的程序被录取）。进入该项目的学生具有从计算机科学到生物化学等不同的本科背景。在第一年，他们需要参加为期一年的综合讲座课程，其中包括题为“神经科学与认知”的实验室课程，以及“科学、伦理与社会”的研讨会。研究机会通过部门务静会、实验室午餐（以正在进行的工作为特色）和专门为帮助一年级学生选择他们的研究轮转而设计的项目教师的迷你研讨会系列向学生提供。这些信息用于帮助选择三个12周的实验室轮转，这些轮转通常在第一学年结束时完成，然后选择一个论文实验室。到第二年结束时，学生要完成6门额外的选修课程，其中许多是从神经科学专业的12门小型研讨会式课程中选择的。在第二年末完成综合考试后，学生以博士前NRSA的形式撰写并捍卫论文提案。每位学生在1 -2年级（每隔3个月）由两位论文指导老师指导，之后每隔6个月由一个个性化的论文咨询委员会指导。论文咨询委员会向研究生课程指导委员会报告，研究生课程指导委员会仔细跟踪每个学生在课程中的进展情况，并制定总体课程政策。目前，有85名学生就读于神经科学研究生课程。完成博士学位的平均时间为5.3年。从我们的项目毕业的学生中，超过93%的人继续从事学术生物医学研究。在这里，我们要求五名学生在项目的头两年提供津贴支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Neuroscience Graduate Program, which was begun in 1983, has its headquarters in the Department of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Consisting of 64 faculties drawn from various departments across the University, it serves as the hub of a broad spectrum of efforts for the training of graduate students, encompassing molecular, cellular, developmental, systems, cognitive and computational neuroscience as well as neurobiology of disease. Each year, from a pool of-200 applicants, we typically matriculate 10-12 Ph.D. candidates as well as 1-4 candidates for combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees (who are admitted through a separate process). Students enter the program with diverse undergraduate backgrounds ranging from computer science to biochemistry. In the first year they are required to take a year-long integrative lecture course with lab entitled "Neuroscience and Cognition" as well as a seminar on "Science, Ethics and Society". Research opportunities are presented to students through a Departmental Retreat, Lab Lunches (which feature work-in-progress) and a Mini-symposium series by Program Faculty specifically designed to help first-year students choose their research rotations. This information is used to help pick three 12-week lab rotations which are typically completed by the end of the first academic year, following which, a thesis lab is selected. By the end of the second year, students complete 6 additional elective courses, many of which are chosen from a list of 12 small seminar-style courses in Neuroscience specialties. Following completion of a Comprehensive Exam at the end of Year 2, students write and defend a Thesis Proposal which is written in the form of a Pre-doctoral NRSA. Each student is advised by two Prethesis Advisors in Years 1 -2 (at 3 month intervals) and an individualized Thesis Advisory Committee thereafter (at 6 month intervals). Thesis Advisory Committees make reports to the Graduate Program Steering Committee which carefully tracks the progress of each student in the program as well as setting overall program policy. At present, 85 students are enrolled in the Neuroscience Graduate program. The average time to complete the Ph.D. has been 5.3 years. Of the students who have graduated from our program greater than 93% have remained in academic biomedical research. Here, we request stipend support for five students during their first two years in the program. RELEVANCE: The mission of the Program is to train the next generation of neuroscientists to teach and perform research in both basic and clinical neurosciences. The Training Program also serves as a focal point for the faculty and for fostering interactions among students and other investigators doing research in neuroscience.