Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program

生物医学科学中的微流控培训计划

• 批准号: 7125031
• 负责人: Mark A BURNS
• 金额: $ 26.7万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-30 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7125031
• 关键词: Microfluidics; Biomedical; Sciences; Training; Program

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The field of microfluidics is uniquely poised to make a broad impact in biomedical science through the miniaturization and massive parallelization of biological experimentation. For example, future advances in microfluidics could revolutionize disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and pathogen detection. For these impacts to be realized we need people conversant in engineering, chemistry, biological sciences, and the medical sciences. Currently, however, such cross-trained people are in short supply. To address this shortage, we propose a five-year program to train the next generation of biomedical microfluidics experts. This program combines the expertise of faculty from engineering, chemistry, and the medical school plus the world-class Solid State Electronics Laboratory (SSEL) and Micromechanical Integrated DMA Analysis Technology (MIDAT) facilities for state-of-the-art micro- and nanofabrication. The premise of the program is that students should have significant training in both the methods of microfluidics and in the biomedical applications of this technology. Such training enhance the communication between disciplines, identification of solvable and clinically relevant problems, and selection of appropriate tools to solve these problems. The training of the students in this program will involve a combination of lecture and lab course work, a seminar and workshop program, a cross-disciplinary laboratory rotation and co-mentor, and an annual symposium beyond the requirements in the trainee's home department. The core course for the program, "Transport in Microfluidic Systems," has already been developed two years ago. Students from both engineering and basic sciences have completed the course. The seminar and workshop program, developed and run by the graduate students, was established last year and has been very successful. The series has workshop and tutorial sessions teaching principles in microfluidics in addition to both internal and external speakers. We hope to put in place the additional programs with the funding of this proposal. We feel that this combination of practical training, cross-disciplinary exposure, and intensive microfluidic study will produce students well positioned to answer the growing need for highly educated and trained microfluidic experts.

描述（由申请人提供）： 微流体学领域具有独特的准备，可以通过生物学实验的微型化和大规模平行化对生物医学科学产生广泛的影响。例如，未来 微流体学的进步可以彻底改变疾病诊断，药物发现和病原体检测。为了实现这些影响，我们需要人们在工程，化学，生物科学和医学科学方面熟练。但是，目前，这种交叉训练的人供不应求。为了解决这一短缺，我们提出了一项为期五年的计划，以培训下一代生物医学微流体专家。该计划结合了工程，化学和医学院的教师的专业知识，以及世界一流的固态电子实验室（SSEL）和微机械综合DMA分析技术（MIDAT）设施，用于先进的微型和纳米型。该计划的前提是学生应在这两个方面都有重大培训 在该技术的生物医学应用中，微流体的方法。这种培训可以增强学科之间的沟通，可解决和临床相关问题的识别以及解决这些问题的适当工具。 该课程中学生的培训将涉及讲座和实验室课程工作，研讨会和讲习班计划，跨学科实验室轮换和同事的结合，以及在受训者家庭部的要求之外的年度研讨会。该计划“微流体系统中的运输”的核心课程已经开发。来自工程和基础科学的学生已经完成了课程。由研究生开发和运行的研讨会和研讨会计划于去年成立，非常成功。该系列除了内部和外部扬声器外，还具有微流体学的讲习班和教程教程教学原则。我们希望通过该提案的资助来制定其他计划。我们认为，实用培训，跨学科的曝光和密集的微流体研究的这种结合将使学生能够满足对受过高等教育和受过训练的微流体专家的需求不断增长。