Biotechnology Training Program

生物技术培训计划

• 批准号: 10197163
• 负责人: Silvia Salinas Blemker
• 金额: $ 48.76万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10197163
• 关键词: Biotechnology; Training Programs

PROJECT SUMMARY This application seeks support for UVA's Biotechnology Training Program (BTP). The BTP is a highly interactive, multidisciplinary and >50% diverse community of PhD trainees drawn selectively from an annual May competition open to PhD students from all science and engineering departments university-wide for which we request 10 predoctoral slots. Trainee funding is for 2 years. Our emphasis is on scientific rigor and communication using the latest tools available with award winning and collaborative dual mentoring giving rise to a breadth of multidisciplinary and academic/industrial training unmatched at UVA. Our advocacy for trainee exposure to a wide variety of careers has been transformational - most importantly for trainees but also for the university with which we share many of our offerings. We believe in trainee career preparedness that is personalized, evolving and built on trust, and that relationships do not necessarily end at graduation. Indeed, our graduates welcome the opportunity to return as BTP seminar or industrial panel speakers with talks focused on, or interlaced with, career reflections; or to help in a trainee advisory/advocate role as members of the BTP Board of Corporate Advisors. They are the ultimate measure of our success. Their outcomes are updated at least quarterly on our grads web page with information drawn from LinkedIn. BTP students in training (21, including 11 minorities) or graduated (65) entered with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.7, are currently hosted by 8 different departments. BTP trainees and graduates have received multiple awards, experienced 73 different externships from 51 different companies, and after graduation are now employed in industry (37), academia (15; including an HBCU Dean), government (3), medicine (3), or foundation (2). Since '05, 164 first author articles have been published in journals with impact factors as high as 24. Trainees develop leadership and teamwork skills by taking direct responsibility for programmatic features of the BTP including: BTP Symposia and Seminars, BTP Day of Caring, BTP Industrial Q&A Panels and BTP company tours. Mentoring our trainees is a highly engaged, collaborative and well-funded faculty of 55 individuals from 14 departments. Institutional support has been essential for our success, including Vice President for Research help with externship and Symposia funding, and an additional training slot funded by the School of Engineering. Our overall goal is to develop the next generation of exceptionally rigorous, creative, talented and diverse scientists who are socialized in biotechnology themes and practiced in teamwork. Our aims are to: (1) cement a foundation of rigor in experimental planning, data organization and transparency built on the Nature and eLife recognized 'Open Science Framework' in a collaboration with Charlottesville's 'Center for Open Science', (2) to energetically nurture our trainees love and inquisitiveness for science as they acquire new skills to solve important scientific problems, and (3) to overlay this training with various forms of biotechnology exposure, including required externships – all coupled with a strong and constant commitment to trainee diversity.

项目摘要 该应用程序寻求支持UVA的生物技术培训计划（BTP）。 BTP是高度互动的， 多学科和> 50％的博士学位学员的潜水员社区从年度五月竞争中有选择地吸引 向所有科学和工程系的博士生开放，我们要求10 前插槽。学员资金已有2年。我们的重点是使用科学严谨和交流 屡获殊荣和协作双重心理的最新工具可引起广泛 UVA无与伦比的多学科和学术/工业培训。我们倡导学员接触 各种各样的职业人士都具有变革性 - 最重要的是培训，但也适用于大学 我们分享了许多产品。我们相信个性化，不断发展的学员职业准备 并建立在信任的基础上，这种关系不一定在毕业时结束。确实，我们的毕业生欢迎 有机会以BTP开创性或工业面板扬声器为重点，以谈判为重点或与之交织在一起， 职业思考；或帮助担任BTP公司董事会成员的学员咨询/倡导角色 顾问。它们是我们成功的最终度量。他们的结果至少每季度更新 毕业生网页，其中包含来自LinkedIn的信息。 BTP培训的学生（21名，包括11个少数民族）或 毕业（65）以平均本科GPA为3.7，目前由8种不同的 部门。 BTP受训者和毕业生获得了多个奖项，经历了73个不同的实习 来自51家不同的公司以及毕业后的行业（37），学术界（15个；包括 HBCU院长，政府（3），医学（3）或基金会（2）。自05年以来，已有164篇作者文章 发表在具有高达24个影响因素的期刊上。受训者通过 直接负责BTP的程序化功能，包括：BTP研讨会和研讨会，BTP BTP工业问答面板和BTP Company Tours的关怀日。指导我们的学员是一个高度参与的， 来自14个部门的55个人的合作且资金充足的教师。机构支持一直 对于我们的成功至关重要的，包括有关实习和专题讨论会的研究副总裁，以及 由工程学院资助的额外培训老虎机。我们的总体目标是发展下一代 在生物技术主题中社交的非常严格，创造性，才华和多元化的科学家 并在团队合作中练习。我们的目的是：（1）巩固实验计划中严格的基础，数据 组织和透明的建立在自然和埃利夫（Elife）的基础上 与夏洛茨维尔的“开放科学中心”合作，（2）有效地护理我们的培训爱情和 科学的好奇心，因为他们获得了解决重要科学问题的新技能，并且（3）覆盖 这种具有各种形式的生物技术暴露的培训，包括所需的外部职位 - 所有这些都与 对学员多样性的坚定而持续的承诺。