Training Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Translational Neuroscience

分子、细胞和转化神经科学培训项目

• 批准号: 8665721
• 负责人: GORDON J FISHELL
• 金额: $ 18.14万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8665721
• 关键词: Molecular; Training Programs; translational neuroscience

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal describes an advanced predoctoral training program focused on molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience. The training program's goals are focused on (a) achieving a high-quality education in the fundamental principles and techniques that will prepare trainees for the intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience research; (b) generating in-depth and state-of-the-art laboratory research opportunities in the focus area, and (c) training in the necessary professional skills often overlooked during graduate education, including critical reading, grant writing, oral presentation, leadership, management, and networking. We will achieve these goals through a combination of advanced coursework, workshops, small group discussions, weekly seminars, trainee presentations, and structured (as well as more informal) meetings with program faculty. A well-thought out mentoring program will aid trainees' progress in the program and prepare the participants for their future careers in science. Neuroscience predoctoral trainees at NYU become an integral part of their research labs as well as the expansive neuroscience community at NYU, especially because the proposed training program brings together 30 faculty trainers from across NYU's major campuses. Although historically two related neuroscience graduate programs co-existed at NYU, faculty from both programs have taken several key steps to integrate their graduate training over the past 5-10 years. With substantial support from the University, we reached a new phase of program integration. The proposed training program will be instrumental in furthering the efforts to unify the extensive NYU neuroscience community, particularly those in the areas of molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience, whose ranks have recently increased substantially thanks to aggressive faculty recruitment by the NYU Center for Neural Science and the new NYU Neuroscience Institute. This thriving community, and especially the selected training faculty, supports a substantial graduate student population. We seek funding for 4 predoctoral students in their 3rd year or higher within this cohort; each will be appointed for 1 to 2 years, just priorto when we anticipate they will transition to independent funding. This size will provide a critical mass of trainees so as to firmly establish this training program within the context of the larger combined neuroscience graduate programs at NYU. Through our newly integrated graduate program, we provide trainees with a vast and rich intellectual environment and the resources and experience to confidently pursue their own scientific interests, which we hope will lead to future breakthroughs in basic neuroscience and the underlying mechanisms of neurological diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）：当前提案描述了一项专注于分子、细胞和转化神经科学的高级博士前培训计划。培训计划的目标集中于（a）实现基本原理和技术方面的高质量教育，使学员为现代神经科学研究的紧密协作和跨学科性质做好准备； (b) 在重点领域创造深入和最先进的实验室研究机会，以及 (c) 研究生教育期间经常被忽视的必要专业技能培训，包括批判性阅读、资助写作、口头演讲、领导力、管理和网络。我们将通过高级课程、研讨会、小组讨论、每周研讨会、学员演示以及与项目教师的结构化（以及更非正式的）会议相结合来实现这些目标。经过深思熟虑的指导计划将有助于学员在计划中取得进步，并为参与者未来的科学职业生涯做好准备。纽约大学的神经科学博士前培训生已成为其研究实验室以及纽约大学庞大的神经科学社区不可或缺的一部分，特别是因为拟议的培训计划汇集了来自纽约大学主要校区的 30 名教员培训师。尽管历史上纽约大学并存两个相关的神经科学研究生项目，但这两个项目的教师在过去 5-10 年中采取了几个关键步骤来整合其研究生培训。在大学的大力支持下，我们进入了项目整合的新阶段。拟议的培训计划将有助于进一步努力统一纽约大学广泛的神经科学界，特别是分子、细胞和转化神经科学领域的界别，由于纽约大学神经科学中心积极招募教师，这些领域的排名最近大幅提高。科学和新的纽约大学神经科学研究所。这个蓬勃发展的社区，尤其是经过挑选的培训师资，支持了大量的研究生人口。我们为该队列中 4 名三年级或以上的博士生寻求资助；每个人的任期将是 1 到 2 年，在此之前我们预计他们将过渡到独立资助。这一规模将提供足够数量的学员，以便在纽约大学更大的综合神经科学研究生项目的背景下牢固地建立这一培训项目。通过我们新整合的研究生项目，我们为学员提供了广阔而丰富的智力环境以及自信地追求自己的科学兴趣的资源和经验，我们希望这将导致未来基础神经科学和神经系统疾病潜在机制的突破。