COBRE: UVM: CORE D: TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING

COBRE：UVM：核心 D：转化神经科学培训

• 批准号: 7959685
• 负责人: FELIX P ECKENSTEIN
• 金额: $ 14.53万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7959685
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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. One of the original goals of the COBRE Center was the creation of a Translational Core to: (a) facilitate interactions between basic and clinical neuroscientists to enhance translational research, and (b) support research experiences for undergraduate students, medical students and residents. In 2003, we initiated an in-depth summer research experience for undergraduate students, the Summer Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. A major responsibility of the Translational Core each year is to organize and present a didactic course, which focuses on a specific neurological disease or psychiatric disease. The course is designed to illustrate the progress of translational neuroscience research, which is focused on a particular disease entity. The disease to be covered changes every year. In prior grant periods, the disease entities covered included Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Schizophrenia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Cerebrovascular Diseases. This past year, the course focused on Autism and consisted of 12 weekly sessions ranging from clinical research to basic molecular approaches. Faculty from the Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychology, Medicine and Anatomy & Neurobiology collaborate in this team-taught course. In addition, two outside speakers, Drs. Eric Fombonne (McGill University) and John Constantino (Washington University) contributed lectures this past year. The course is attended by graduate students, residents and faculty. In the upcoming year, the course will focus on Dementias of the Elderly. During this past grant period, no medical students elected to gain research experience through the Translational Core year-out medical research program even though the program was well advertised. We will continue efforts to actively recruit second year medical students for this research opportunity next grant year. The Summer Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Fellowship (SNURF) program continues to be very successful. Since its inception, 8 students have participated in this summer research program each year. We have been able to attract students from across the country and have included young women and students from underrepresented groups each year. Both basic and clinical neuroscience faculty participate as student mentors and a side effect of the interaction of different neuroscience faculty has been an enhancement of translational research activities. Undergraduates perform 10 weeks of research, read primary literature and attend lectures given by COBRE faculty. Over 160 students (most from institutions outside of UVM) applied for positions in this year's SNURF program, which will start at the end of May. Eight students were accepted. These students were selected by an admissions committee of four faculty members (Drs. Eckenstein, May, Nishi and Spees) after evaluating their applications. All of the Admission Committee Members are associated with the Neuroscience COBRE. The 8 students will receive a stipend of $3,500 supported by the Neuroscience COBRE and this year, as in previous years and based on available funding, we will try to provide support from the current COBRE grant or from a variety of departmental resources to help defray their housing costs. In addition, the University of Vermont has provided stipends for three underrepresented minority students this year. We have recently begun to contact students periodically after they graduate from the summer research program in order to monitor their career development and our effectiveness in assisting them. In the six years the program has been in existence, the majority of past participants have gone on to medical or graduate school, including two who are currently students in our Neuroscience Graduate Program. Others have elected to take time out from their schooling to accept technical positions, two at UVM. We are pleased that the experience gained here has significantly helped many of our past students in their professional development.

该副本是利用众多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子弹和 调查员（PI）可能已经从其他NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他清晰的条目中代表。列出的机构是 对于中心，这不一定是调查员的机构。 鞋垫中心的最初目标之一是创建转化核心：（a）促进基本和临床神经科学家之间的相互作用，以增强转化研究，（b）为本科生，医学生和居民提供支持研究经验。 2003年，我们为本科生启动了深入的夏季研究经验，即夏季神经科学本科研究奖学金计划。 每年转化核心的主要责任是组织和提出教学课程，该课程的重点是特定的神经系统疾病或精神病。 该课程旨在说明转化神经科学研究的进步，该研究的重点是特定疾病实体。 每年要涵盖的疾病。 在以前的赠款期内，涵盖的疾病实体包括帕金森氏病，多发性硬化症，精神分裂症，肌萎缩性侧面硬化症和脑血管疾病。 在过去的一年中，该课程的重点是自闭症，包括从临床研究到基本分子方法的12个每周课程。 神经病学，神经外科，心理学，医学和解剖学和神经生物学系的教师在该团队教学课程中进行了合作。 此外，有两个外扬声器，博士。埃里克·弗博恩（Eric Fombonne）（麦吉尔大学）和约翰·康斯坦诺（John Constantino）（华盛顿大学）在过去的一年中贡献了演讲。 该课程由研究生，居民和教职员工参加。 在接下来的一年中，该课程将重点关注老年人的痴呆症。 在过去的赠款期间，即使该计划的宣传良好，也没有任何医学学生通过翻译核心年度医学研究计划获得研究经验。 我们将继续努力积极招募第二年的医学生，以获取下一年的研究机会。 夏季的本科生神经科学研究奖学金（SNURF）计划仍然非常成功。 自成立以来，每年有8名学生参加了本夏季研究计划。 我们能够吸引来自全国各地的学生，并每年包括来自代表性不足的小组的年轻妇女和学生。 基本和临床神经科学教师都以学生导师的身份参加，以及不同神经科学教师相互作用的副作用，这是转化研究活动的增强。 本科生进行10周的研究，阅读原科文献并参加Cobre教职员工的讲座。 超过160名学生（来自UVM以外的机构的大多数）申请了今年的SNURF计划的职位，该计划将于5月底开始。 八名学生被接受。 这些学生在评估其申请后，由四名教职员工（Eckenstein博士，Nishi和Spees）选中。 所有招生委员会成员都与神经科学鞋底有关。 这8名学生将获得神经科学家伙支持的3500美元的津贴，今年和今年一样，根据往年，根据可用的资金，我们将尽力从当前的Cobre Grant或各种部门资源中提供支持，以帮助支付其住房成本。 此外，佛蒙特大学今年还为三名代表性不足的少数学生提供了津贴。 我们最近开始在学生从夏季研究计划毕业后定期与他们联系，以监视他们的职业发展及其在协助他们方面的有效性。 在该计划已经存在的六年中，过去的大多数参与者都上过医学或研究生院，其中包括目前是我们神经科学研究生课程的学生。 其他人则选择抽出时间从他们的学业中接受技术职位，其中两个在UVM。 我们很高兴在这里获得的经验极大地帮助了我们过去的许多学生的专业发展。