Infectious Diseases Training Program

传染病培训计划

• 批准号: 7496971
• 负责人: BETH C LEVINE
• 金额: $ 11.84万
• 依托单位: UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7496971
• 关键词: Communicable Diseases; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Major advances have been made in preventing the occurrence of some infectious diseases (through vaccines and public health measures) and in the treatment of some infectious diseases (through the development of antimicrobial agents). However, infectious diseases remain a major global health threat, and it is clear that there is a significant national need to improve our ability to prevent, detect, and control microbial diseases. To accomplish this goal, it is essential that high quality basic science research be performed in infectious diseases and that our nation trains outstanding people to perform such research. Basic science research is necessary to elucidate the mechanisms by which microbial pathogens cause disease, to elucidate the mechanisms by which the host immune system can successfully defend against microbial pathogens, and to define novel strategies to prevent and/or treat infectious pathogens. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has an outstanding group of senior investigators performing basic science research in Infectious Diseases, and is therefore, ideally positioned to train both Ph.D. scientists interested in Infectious Diseases and physicians who are interested in laboratory-oriented research careers in Infectious Diseases. The major goal of our proposal is to provide outstanding laboratory research training in Infectious Diseases to Ph.D. and M.D. postdoctoral fellows so that these individuals may develop into successful independent investigators who will become future leaders in the field. This will be accomplished by providing focused training with outstanding preceptors who conduct state-of-the-art research in different aspects of host-pathogen interactions, by providing 1) a highly stimulating multidisciplinary environment for research, 2) close supervision and support from training grant faculty, and 3) didactic training in both practical aspects of research and career development (e.g., ethics, biostatistics, manuscript and grant writing, patent and proprietary issues) as well as didactic training in diverse areas of science (e.g., current topics at the interface of host-pathogen interactions, immunology, cell biology, molecular biology, virology) that will enrich their research training experience and enhance the quality of their research. Together with the outstanding scientific environment at UT Southwestern, this multi-faceted approach to training post-doctoral fellows in Infectious Diseases research will produce an outstanding group of young investigators with strong potential to make valuable contributions to the global prevention and/or treatment of infectious diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）：在防止某些传染病（通过疫苗和公共卫生措施）以及治疗某些传染病（通过开发抗菌药物）方面已取得了重大进展。但是，传染病仍然是全球主要的健康威胁，很明显，国家有很大的国家需要提高我们预防，检测和控制微生物疾病的能力。为了实现这一目标，必须在传染病中进行高质量的基础科学研究，并且我们的国家训练杰出的人进行此类研究。基础科学研究对于阐明微生物病原体引起疾病的机制是必要的，以阐明宿主免疫系统可以成功防御微生物病原体的机制，并定义了预防和/或治疗感染性病原体的新型策略。达拉斯西南医学中心的德克萨斯大学有一群出色的高级研究人员，他们从事传染病基础科学研究，因此，理想的有能力培训这两个博士学位。对感兴趣的传染病和医生感兴趣的科学家，这些医师对传染病的面向实验室研究生涯感兴趣。我们提案的主要目标是向博士提供出色的传染病实验室研究培训。以及医学博士博士后研究员，以便这些人可以发展成为成功的独立调查员，这些调查员将成为该领域的未来领导者。 This will be accomplished by providing focused training with outstanding preceptors who conduct state-of-the-art research in different aspects of host-pathogen interactions, by providing 1) a highly stimulating multidisciplinary environment for research, 2) close supervision and support from training grant faculty, and 3) didactic training in both practical aspects of research and career development (e.g., ethics, biostatistics, manuscript and grant writing, patent and proprietary issues) as well随着科学不同领域的教学培训（例如，在宿主 - 病原体相互作用，免疫学，细胞生物学，分子生物学，病毒学的当前主题）将丰富他们的研究培训经验并提高他们的研究质量。与UT西南部的杰出科学环境一起，这种多方面的培训传染病后研究员的方法将产生一群杰出的年轻研究者，具有对全球预防和/或治疗传染病的有价值贡献的强大潜力。