Multidisciplinary Training in Vision and Research

 描述（由申请人提供）：这个长期的视觉训练补助金（VTG）计划的目标是为那些将成为杰出视觉研究人员的个人提供密集的基础和转化科学培训。提供细胞生物学、分子生物学、生物化学、生理学、药理学、遗传学、发育生物学、神经科学和癌症生物学等学科的培训。重点放在理解正常眼过程的基本机制，以及视网膜，脉络膜，角膜，透镜，视神经和中央视觉处理的疾病。该计划是基础科学家和临床学科的合作努力，为国家重大任务的实验室研究提供设施和监督。 眼科研究所。VTG的教师包括格鲁吉亚理工学院、格鲁吉亚州立大学和莫尔豪斯医学院的成员，以及埃默里大学的多个系。项目主任监督学员的选择，并提供适当的背景，技术培训和导师正在进行的研究监督。因此，该计划刺激了亚特兰大视觉科学家及其学员之间的合作。我们的计划成功地吸引了少数民族学员在眼科研究的职业生涯，从亚特兰大学术和医疗机构的优秀资源借鉴。受训人员包括：（1）从跨学科的研究生课程的博士前学生：生物化学，细胞和发育生物学;神经科学;分子和系统药理学;遗传学和分子生物学;癌症生物学和生物医学工程;和（2）博士后研究员寻求与VTG导师在有关视觉研究的科学领域的高级培训。博士前和博士后学员选择一个导师与他们一起制定研究计划，进行研究，并参与导师正在进行的研究项目。博士前学员被任命为VTG只有在选择论文顾问谁是VTG教师的成员，通常在研究生学习的第一年，并通过初步资格考试后。所有学员都必须参加 埃默里眼科中心是亚特兰大地区眼科研究和临床护理的中心点。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this long-standing vision training grant (VTG) program is to provide intensive basic and translational science training for individuals who will become outstanding vision researchers. Training is provided in the disciplines of cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, genetics, developmental biology, neuroscience, and cancer biology. Emphasis is placed on understanding fundamental mechanisms underlying normal ocular processes, as well as disorders of the retina, choroid, cornea, lens, optic nerve, and central visual processing. The program is a collaborative effort of basic scientists and the clinical disciplines, providing the facilities and supervision for laboratory investigations relative to major missions of the National Eye Institute. The VTG faculty includes members of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and Morehouse School of Medicine, as well as multiple departments at Emory University. The program directors oversee the selection of trainees and the provision of appropriate background, technical training, and ongoing research supervision by the mentors. Thus, the program stimulates collaboration among vision scientists and their trainees across Atlanta. Our program successfully attracts minority trainees to careers in eye research, drawing from the outstanding resources of Atlanta academic and medical institutions. The trainees include: (1) predoctoral students from the interdisciplinary Graduate Programs of: Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Neuroscience; Molecular and Systems Pharmacology; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Cancer Biology, and Biomedical Engineering; and (2) postdoctoral fellows seeking advanced training with the VTG preceptors in a scientific area pertinent to vision research. Pre- and postdoctoral trainees select a preceptor with whom they develop a research proposal, conduct the research, and participate in the ongoing research projects of the mentor. Predoctoral trainees are appointed to the VTG only after selecting a dissertation advisor who is a member of the VTG faculty, usually after the first year of graduate study and passing the preliminary qualifying exams. All trainees are required to participate in the research seminar series, journal clubs, didactic course work, grand rounds, and other educational activities of the Emory Eye Center -- the focal point for eye research and clinical care in the Atlanta area.