Training Grant in Bacterial Pathogenesis

细菌发病机制培训补助金

• 批准号: 8055979
• 负责人: Gerald Irwin Byrne
• 金额: $ 7.57万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8055979
• 关键词: Grant; Pathogenesis; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for a Training Program in Bacterial Pathogenesis, Vaccine Development, and Biodefense at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), jointly sponsored by our sister institutions, the Memphis VA Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH), an internationally known pediatric catastrophic illness hospital. Support is requested for two pre-doctoral trainees, to be reserved for underrpresented minorities (URMs). The Training Program is designed as an integral component of the UTHSC Microbial Pathogenesis Center, a campus-wide and inter-institutional organization with a mission to promote and facilitate high quality research by Ph.D. and M.D. investigators in the field of microbial pathogenesis. There are 30 investigators in the Center from 7 departments of UTHSC, from the Infectious Diseases Department and Children's Infection Defense Center at SJCRH, and from the VA Medical Center. Trainees will be mentored by 13 training faculty whose research focus is bacterial pathogenesis. All are members of the Microbial Pathogenesis Research Center and members of the UTHSC graduate faculty. Graduate students will be recruited from the UTHSC Integrated Program in Biomedical Sciences (IPBS), which has a solid history of successfully recruiting URM students. The IPBS provides a common interdisciplinary curriculum for the first semester. Students that select the Microbial Pathogenesis, Immunology, and Inflammation Track will then enroll in specialized courses. URM students mentored by a trainer in this Track will be eligible to compete for support. The infrastructure of the Microbial Pathogenesis Research Center provides a rich environment of seminars, courses in pathogenesis and experimental design, and campus-wide data conferences and journal clubs to augment the mentored lab experiences of trainees that comprise the foundation of the training program. The involvement of the three institutions will ensure comprehensive training of future researchers on the mechanisms and treatment of infections of adult, pediatric, and immunocompromised populations. The training of URM students will produce role models for future students entering these important fields of bacterial pathogenesis research. RELEVANCE (See instructions): High quality training in bacterial pathogenesis, vaccine development, and bioterrorism research is of increasing importance with each passing year. Moreover, there is an acute shortage of underrepresented minority role models in these fields. This training application addresses both of these needs by reserving both of the requested pre-doctoral training slots for URM students..

描述（由申请人提供）：这是田纳西大学健康科学中心 (UTHSC) 细菌发病机制、疫苗开发和生物防御培训项目的申请，由我们的姊妹机构孟菲斯退伍军人医疗中心和圣路易斯大学共同赞助。 . 圣裘德儿童研究医院（SJCRH），国际知名的儿科灾难医院。请求为两名博士前实习生提供支持，以供代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 保留。该培训计划被设计为UTHSC微生物发病机制中心的一个组成部分，该中心是一个校园范围内的跨机构组织，其使命是促进和促进博士生的高质量研究。微生物发病机制领域的医学博士研究人员。该中心有 30 名研究人员，来自 UHSC 的 7 个部门、SJCRH 的传染病科和儿童感染防御中心以及 VA 医疗中心。学员将接受 13 名研究重点是细菌发病机制的培训教师的指导。他们都是微生物发病机制研究中心的成员和 UHSC 研究生院的成员。研究生将从 UTHSC 生物医学综合项目 (IPBS) 中招募，该项目在成功招收 URM 学生方面有着悠久的历史。 IPBS 为第一学期提供共同的跨学科课程。选择微生物发病机制、免疫学和炎症方向的学生将报名参加专门课程。由该赛道培训师指导的 URM 学生将有资格竞争支持。微生物发病机制研究中心的基础设施提供了丰富的研讨会、发病机制和实验设计课程以及校园范围内的数据会议和期刊俱乐部的环境，以增强学员的指导实验室经验，从而构成培训计划的基础。这三个机构的参与将确保对未来研究人员进行关于成人、儿童和免疫功能低下人群感染机制和治疗的全面培训。 URM 学生的培训将为未来进入细菌发病机制研究这些重要领域的学生树立榜样。相关性（参见说明）：细菌发病机制、疫苗开发和生物恐怖主义研究方面的高质量培训逐年变得越来越重要。此外，这些领域严重缺乏代表性不足的少数群体榜样。该培训应用程序通过为 URM 学生保留两个所需的博士前培训名额来满足这两个需求。