NEURODEVELOPMENTAL AND NEURODEGERENTATIVE DISEASE

神经发育和神经退行性疾病

• 批准号: 6916189
• 负责人: NINA F SCHOR
• 金额: $ 3.1万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSP PITTSBURGH/UPMC HLTH SYS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6916189
• 关键词: NEURODEVELOPMENTAL; NEURODEGERENTATIVE; DISEASE

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over this past Decade of the Brain, many of the most clinically important advances for patients with disease of the nervous system have come from the clinics and laboratories of physician-scientists. These individuals are best equipped to apply basic neuroscience information to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological disease. However, increasing emphasis on revenue generation, care for those who constitute the taxpaying and voting workforce, and repayment of medical school debt have made it increasingly difficult to attract, foster, and maintain a cadre of individuals at the residency or faculty level whose interests lie at the interface between basic and clinical neuroscience. It is therefore absolutely vital that we begin to recruit and nurture such individuals when they are in the early years of their medical school training. The presently proposed program of short-term research experiences in the neurological sciences is part of a more global effort at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to attract and mentor students in preparation for careers in academic medicine and biomedical research. This program is designed to: 1) Give medical students the opportunity to engage in and understand clinical and/or basic neuroscience research, 2) develop in medical students the thinking skills and knowledge base that will allow their application of basic neurobiological principles to understanding normal function and clinical disorders of the nervous system, and 3) foster the academic careers of these medical students by providing the guidance, mentorship, and framework necessary for the conduct of scientifically sound, ethical, and clinically relevant research in neurobiology. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has a long and productive history of facilitating neuroscience research as a part of the medical school experience of its matriculants. Funding of this program will perpetuate this history at an economically and academically critical time.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的大脑十年中，对于神经系统疾病患者来说，许多临床上最重要的进展都来自医师科学家的诊所和实验室。这些人最有能力将基本的神经科学信息应用于神经系统疾病的理解、诊断和治疗。然而，对创收、对纳税和投票劳动力的关心以及医学院债务偿还的日益重视，使得吸引、培养和维持住院医师或教职人员的骨干队伍变得越来越困难。位于基础神经科学和临床神经科学之间的界面。因此，当这些人在医学院接受培训的最初几年时，我们就开始招募和培养他们，这一点绝对至关重要。目前提出的神经科学短期研究经验计划是匹兹堡大学医学院全球努力的一部分，旨在吸引和指导学生为学术医学和生物医学研究的职业生涯做好准备。该项目旨在：1）为医学生提供参与和理解临床和/或基础神经科学研究的机会，2）培养医学生的思维技能和知识基础，使他们能够应用基本的神经生物学原理来理解正常情况神经系统的功能和临床疾病，3) 通过提供进行科学合理、符合伦理和临床相关的神经生物学研究所需的指导、指导和框架，促进这些医学生的学术生涯。匹兹堡大学医学院在促进神经科学研究方面有着悠久而富有成效的历史，这是其预科生医学院经历的一部分。该项目的资助将使这一历史在经济和学术的关键时刻得以延续。