21st-Century Imaging Sciences: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Training

21 世纪成像科学：本科生和研究生培训

基本信息

批准号：
7293580
负责人：
PHILIP D STAHL
金额：
$ 8.67万
依托单位：
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-09-30 至 2010-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Critical to continued progress in imaging sciences is the integration of traditionally discrete lines of research. For example, advances in observing organelles and macromolecular complexes in living cells need to be integrated with new methodological approachesto imaging live animals; advances in siochemistry that produce novel imaging agents need to be integrated with new approaches to selective cellular delivery and employ transgenic animal models simulating human diseases. To realize the potential that evolving paradigms of molecular, cellular, live animal and human imaging offer, a cadre of 21st-century scientists must be trained¿and a revolutionary synthesis of chemistry, biology, engineering, physics and mathematics must be achieved. The imaging science community at Washington University, because of its breadth, diversity and depth of funding, is in an excellent position to foster the development of a new approach by attracting and training next-generation imaging scientists. We propose to devise curricula and develop opportunities that reach out to students at the most formative stages of their academic careers¿in their undergraduate and graduate years. Early access to students is imperative to develop a broadly-basedacademic foundation in both the physical and life sciences, and in engineering. An Undergraduate Imaging Sciences Pathway will be developed. Students in their junior and senior years will have the opportunity to take courses in chemistry, physics, computer science, engineering and molecular cell biology as they relate to imaging sciences, and to gain in-depth research experience in laboratories of imaging sciencesfaculty. For predoctoral students, we propose to create a Graduate Imaging Sciences Pathway that will be available to students in the biomedical sciences, physical and quantitative sciences, psychology, and engineering. We anticipate that the Graduate Pathway program will mature into a formal graduate program in 2008, when we have optimized the curriculum and developed the administrative mechanisms for interdisciplinary training of students having mentors in the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering and Applied Sciences. We envision that a graduate student who has completed training in the Imaging Sciences Pathway or graduate program will be poised to broaden their horizons and open new opportunities for research in the new age of interdisciplinary science. [Relevant Institutes: NIBIB, NIGMS, NCI.NINDS, NHLBJ]

成像科学持续进步的关键是传统离散线的集成例如，观察活细胞中的细胞器和大分子复合物的进展。需要与活体动物成像的新方法相结合；生产新型显像剂的生物化学需要与选择性的新方法相结合细胞递送并采用模拟人类疾病的转基因动物模型来实现潜力。不断发展的分子、细胞、活体动物和人类成像范式提供了 21 世纪的骨干力量科学家必须接受培训??以及化学、生物学、工程学、物理学和化学的革命性综合数学必须达到。华盛顿大学的成像科学界因其广度、多样性和资金深度，处于有利地位，可以通过吸引和促进新方法的发展我们建议设计课程并开发机会来培训下一代成像科学家。接触处于学术生涯最正式阶段的学生。在他们的本科生和研究生阶段，尽早接触学生对于奠定广泛的学术基础至关重要。物理和生命科学以及工程本科生课程。大三和大四的学生将有机会参加以下课程：与成像相关的化学、物理、计算机科学、工程学和分子细胞生物学科学，并在成像科学系实验室获得深入的研究经验。博士前学生，我们建议创建一个研究生成像科学途径，可供生物医学科学、物理和定量科学、心理学和工程学的学生。预计研究生衔接课程将在 2008 年成熟为正式的研究生课程，届时我们优化课程设置，建立跨学科人才培养管理机制在文理学院、医学院、工程学院和应用学院有导师的学生我们设想完成成像科学途径培训的研究生。或研究生课程将准备拓宽他们的视野并为该领域的研究开辟新的机会跨学科科学的新时代。【相关机构：NIBIB、NIGMS、NCI.NINDS、NHLBJ】