Biotechnology Training Program

生物技术培训计划

• 批准号: 10406348
• 负责人: Silvia Salinas Blemker
• 金额: $ 52.04万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10406348
• 关键词: Biotechnology; Training Programs

PROJECT SUMMARY This application seeks support for UVA's Biotechnology Training Program (BTP). The BTP is a highly interactive, multidisciplinary and >50% diverse community of PhD trainees drawn selectively from an annual May competition open to PhD students from all science and engineering departments university-wide for which we request 10 predoctoral slots. Trainee funding is for 2 years. Our emphasis is on scientific rigor and communication using the latest tools available with award winning and collaborative dual mentoring giving rise to a breadth of multidisciplinary and academic/industrial training unmatched at UVA. Our advocacy for trainee exposure to a wide variety of careers has been transformational - most importantly for trainees but also for the university with which we share many of our offerings. We believe in trainee career preparedness that is personalized, evolving and built on trust, and that relationships do not necessarily end at graduation. Indeed, our graduates welcome the opportunity to return as BTP seminar or industrial panel speakers with talks focused on, or interlaced with, career reflections; or to help in a trainee advisory/advocate role as members of the BTP Board of Corporate Advisors. They are the ultimate measure of our success. Their outcomes are updated at least quarterly on our grads web page with information drawn from LinkedIn. BTP students in training (21, including 11 minorities) or graduated (65) entered with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.7, are currently hosted by 8 different departments. BTP trainees and graduates have received multiple awards, experienced 73 different externships from 51 different companies, and after graduation are now employed in industry (37), academia (15; including an HBCU Dean), government (3), medicine (3), or foundation (2). Since '05, 164 first author articles have been published in journals with impact factors as high as 24. Trainees develop leadership and teamwork skills by taking direct responsibility for programmatic features of the BTP including: BTP Symposia and Seminars, BTP Day of Caring, BTP Industrial Q&A Panels and BTP company tours. Mentoring our trainees is a highly engaged, collaborative and well-funded faculty of 55 individuals from 14 departments. Institutional support has been essential for our success, including Vice President for Research help with externship and Symposia funding, and an additional training slot funded by the School of Engineering. Our overall goal is to develop the next generation of exceptionally rigorous, creative, talented and diverse scientists who are socialized in biotechnology themes and practiced in teamwork. Our aims are to: (1) cement a foundation of rigor in experimental planning, data organization and transparency built on the Nature and eLife recognized 'Open Science Framework' in a collaboration with Charlottesville's 'Center for Open Science', (2) to energetically nurture our trainees love and inquisitiveness for science as they acquire new skills to solve important scientific problems, and (3) to overlay this training with various forms of biotechnology exposure, including required externships – all coupled with a strong and constant commitment to trainee diversity.

项目概要 此应用程序寻求 UVA 生物技术培训计划 (BTP) 的支持 BTP 是一个高度互动的、 多学科且超过 50% 多元化的博士生社区是从每年 5 月的竞赛中精选出来的 向全校所有科学和工程系的博士生开放，我们要求 10 博士前培训生资助期限为两年。我们的重点是科学严谨性和交流。 最新的工具以及屡获殊荣的协作双重指导带来了广泛的 UVA 提供无与伦比的多学科和学术/工业培训。 各种各样的职业已经发生了转变——最重要的是对于实习生来说，对于大学来说也是如此 我们分享了我们的许多产品，我们相信实习生的职业准备是个性化的、不断发展的。 建立在信任的基础上，这种关系并不一定会在毕业时结束。事实上，我们的毕业生对此表示欢迎。 有机会作为 BTP 研讨会或工业小组发言人回归，其演讲重点或与以下内容相关： 职业反思；或作为 BTP 公司董事会成员提供实习生咨询/倡导作用 顾问是我们成功的最终衡量标准。他们的结果至少每季度更新一次。 毕业生网页，其中信息来自 LinkedIn 培训中的 BTP 学生（21 名，包括 11 名少数民族）或 已毕业（65 岁），本科生平均 GPA 为 3.7，目前由 8 个不同的大学主办 BTP学员和毕业生获得了多个奖项，经历了73次不同的实习。 来自51家不同公司，毕业后现就职于工业界（37人）、学术界（15人；包括 自 05 年以来，已发表 164 篇第一作者文章。 发表在影响因子高达 24 的期刊上。学员通过以下方式培养领导力和团队合作技能 直接负责 BTP 的计划特征，包括：BTP 专题讨论会和研讨会、BTP 关爱日、BTP 工业问答小组和 BTP 公司参观指导我们的学员是一项高度参与的活动。 来自 14 个院系的 55 名教员组成的协作且资金充足的教职人员得到了机构的支持。 对我们的成功至关重要，包括研究副总裁在实习和研讨会资助方面的帮助，以及 由工程学院资助的额外培训名额我们的总体目标是培养下一代。 由极其严谨、富有创造力、才华横溢且多元化的科学家组成，他们在生物技术主题方面具有丰富的经验 我们的目标是：（1）巩固实验计划和数据的严格基础。 建立在 Nature 和 eLife 认可的“开放科学框架”之上的组织和透明度 与夏洛茨维尔的“开放科学中心”合作，（2）大力培养我们的学员热爱和 当他们获得解决重要科学问题的新技能时对科学的好奇心，以及（3）叠加 这种培训涉及各种形式的生物技术接触，包括所需的实习——所有这些都加上 对学员多样性的坚定而持续的承诺。