Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

跨学科生物医学影像培训项目

• 批准号: 8910699
• 负责人: DAVID Lynn WILSON
• 金额: $ 27.98万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8910699
• 关键词: Training Programs; bioimaging

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon continuing, significant institutional, state, federal, and commercial investment in faculty and imaging infrastructure. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use imaging facilities in the Case Center for Imaging Research which includes state-of- the-art clinical and small animal imaging systems, along with labs of mentoring faculty. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have two or more mentors representing both imaging technology and biological/clinical applications of imaging. Our educational program includes a portfolio of imaging courses, including ones focusing on imaging physics, image analysis, and reconstruction, as well as Cellular and Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (Nanosized Therapeutics and Imaging Agents), a new course specially designed for interdisciplinary training in nanoparticle theranostics. We will promote a culture of inter- disciplinary research in a series of diverse activities during a designated Imaging Hour. Training funds are mostly used to recruit first year graduate students, a significant need at our institution. Our T32 has enabled us to increase recruitment of women and under-represented minorities. In general, it has helped make graduate students cost effective as compared to post docs and ensured training of domestic PhD's in this area of critical need. In less than four years, our T32 program has already successfully trained four graduates, all with exemplary training records and with a trajectory towards success. Other trainees are moving through the program focusing on exciting interdisciplinary imaging research and with excellent research productivity.

描述（由申请人提供）：跨学科生物医学成像培训计划将培养博士前学员成为有机体水平生物医学成像研究的领导者。由工程师、物理学家、生物学家和临床医生组成的多学科团队 推进生物医学成像所需的技术，特别是随着体内细胞和分子成像的出现。我们将培养下一代跨学科生物医学成像科学家和工程师，他们将为此类团队做出贡献并领导此类团队。我们的培训计划将建立在对师资和成像基础设施的持续、重大的机构、州、联邦和商业投资的基础上。培训补助金将使学生完全处于正在进行的跨学科/多学科研究项目的中心。学员将使用成像研究案例中心的成像设施，其中包括最先进的临床和小动物成像系统，以及指导教师的实验室。博士前培训生将来自备受好评的生物医学工程和物理系，这两个系在生物医学成像方面都有悠久的培训历史。学员将开展将成像技术与生物医学研究相结合的研究项目。每个学员将有两名或两名以上代表成像技术和成像的生物/临床应用的导师。我们的教育计划包括一系列成像课程，其中包括专注于成像物理、图像分析和重建的课程，以及细胞和分子成像和纳米医学（纳米治疗和成像剂），这是一门专门为纳米颗粒跨学科培训而设计的新课程治疗诊断学。我们将在指定的成像时间内通过一系列多样化的活动来促进跨学科研究文化。培训资金主要用于招收一年级研究生，这是我们机构的一项重大需求。我们的 T32 使我们能够增加对女性和代表性不足的少数族裔的招聘。总的来说，与博士后相比，它有助于提高研究生的成本效益，并确保国内博士在这一急需领域的培训。在不到四年的时间里，我们的 T32 项目已经成功培训了四名毕业生，他们都拥有堪称典范的培训记录和成功的轨迹。其他学员正在完成该计划，重点关注令人兴奋的跨学科成像研究，并具有出色的研究生产力。