TRAINING IN VISION RESEARCH

视觉研究培训

• 批准号: 6593278
• 负责人: CHRISTOPHER W TYLER
• 金额: $ 17.33万
• 依托单位: SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-30 至 2007-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6593278
• 关键词: TRAINING; VISION; RESEARCH

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for four additional fellows in the longstanding fellowship training program at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. Although the program has been successful in training dozens of research fellows in visual processing and scores of clinical ophthalmology fellows over the past three decades, it falls far short of the needs of the current faculty of eighteen investigators. The current program funding can support postdoctoral fellows to work with only about a quarter of the investigators. The need for fellows is particularly critical at Smith-Kettlewell, an independent institute devoted purely to research, for two reasons: 1) they bring fresh ideas and energy to established laboratories during their training and 2) they learn to conduct projects independently with minor oversight from their mentors. Conversely, the established investigators are in an excellent position to offer high quality training to fellows because they are fulltime researchers without teaching responsibilities in the traditional university setting. The goal of the application is therefore to approximately double the scale of the fellowship training program at Smith-Kettlewell. The areas of expertise are spatial vision, infant vision (normal and abnormal), subcortical processing retinal processing and its disorders, strabismus and amblyopia, eye movement control, eye muscle physiology, visual rehabilitation, computational neuroscience, sensory impairment, stereopsis, motion, cortical processing, and computer vision. Smith-Kettlewell investigators make a substantial contribution to the national research effort in ophthalmology and visual disorders, with most of the faculty serving on NIH, NSF or NIDDR scientific review panels, all faculty qualifying to receive federal funding for their research, and many members serving on editorial boards and as officers of professional organizations who have oversight for programming meetings in the discipline. The current fellowship program is already fully coordinated with the NEI requirements for INRSA postdoctoral programs, including a didactic component, ethics training and stipend levels. Integration of the INRSA component of the program with the current other support will therefore require no further adjustments. The INRSA component will fund exclusively fellows with U.S. residency certification while the other institutional components will fund both the remaining U.S. and non-U.S. fellows on an equal basis.

描述（由申请人提供）：请求为史密斯-凯特韦尔眼科研究所长期奖学金培训计划的另外四名研究员提供支持。尽管该项目在过去三十年中成功地培训了数十名视觉处理研究人员和数十名临床眼科研究员，但仍远远不能满足目前 18 名研究人员的需求。目前的项目资金只能支持博士后研究员与大约四分之一的研究人员合作。 Smith-Kettlewell 是一家纯粹致力于研究的独立研究所，对研究员的需求尤为迫切，原因有两个：1）他们在培训期间为现有实验室带来了新的想法和活力；2）他们学会在较小的监督下独立开展项目来自他们的导师。相反，现有的研究人员处于向研究员提供高质量培训的绝佳位置，因为他们是全职研究人员，无需承担传统大学环境中的教学职责。因此，该申请的目标是将史密斯凯特韦尔奖学金培训计划的规模扩大大约一倍。 专业领域包括空间视觉、婴儿视觉（正常和异常）、皮质下处理视网膜处理及其疾病、斜视和弱视、眼运动控制、眼肌生理学、视觉康复、计算神经科学、感觉障碍、立体视觉、运动、皮质处理和计算机视觉。史密斯-凯特尔韦尔研究人员为国家眼科和视觉障碍研究工作做出了重大贡献，大多数教职人员在 NIH、NSF 或 NIDDR 科学审查小组中任职，所有教职人员都有资格获得联邦研究资助，并且许多成员在服务担任编辑委员会成员和专业组织的官员，负责监督该学科的规划会议。 目前的奖学金计划已经完全符合 NEI 对 INRSA 博士后计划的要求，包括教学部分、道德培训和津贴水平。因此，该计划的 INRSA 组件与当前其他支持的集成将不需要进一步调整。 INRSA 部分将专门资助拥有美国居住认证的研究员，而其他机构部分将平等地资助其余的美国和非美国研究员。