Engineering Approaches to Molecular Imaging Training

分子成像培训的工程方法

• 批准号: 7057828
• 负责人: Katherine W Ferrara
• 金额: $ 18.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7057828
• 关键词: Engineering; Approaches; Molecular; Imaging; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rapidly growing field of molecular imaging seeks to develop strategies for non-invasively imaging specific gene and protein targets with the goal of better understanding disease initiation and progression in vivo and accelerating the translation of basic knowledge in the biological sciences into new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in the clinic. This is a highly interdisciplinary research field, involving scientists from the biological, engineering, physical and medical sciences. Recently, many imaging, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have set up molecular imaging programs. The most successful programs, whether in academia or industry, will be those in which the diverse fields listed above are well integrated, and which are led by multidisciplinary scientists that are trained in sufficient depth and breadth to generate new ideas and direct the execution of those ideas. The goal of our predoctoral training program is to train the next generation of leaders in the molecular imaging field for both academia and industry. This training program is based in biomedical engineering, a discipline that seeks to seamlessly integrate engineering, biology and medicine. It is a natural home for the imaging science that is the foundation for molecular imaging research. We propose to support six predoctoral students per year with a carefully constructed curriculum that will provide them with fundamental knowledge in engineering, cell & molecular biology, physiology, instrumentation, synthetic chemistry, and mathematics. A course in molecular imaging will take these fundamentals and show students how to apply them to particular biologic questions. Trainees can select from 16 faculty mentors that span the breadth of molecular imaging research topics. In addition, trainees can take 3- month internships to gain industrial experience, participate in a monthly molecular imaging journal club, and attend an international molecular imaging conference to see at first-hand the latest developments in the field and form connections with other scientists working on similar research.

描述（由申请人提供）： 分子成像的快速增长领域旨在制定非侵入性成像特异性基因和蛋白质靶标的策略，目的是更好地了解体内疾病的启动和进展，并加速生物科学中的基础知识转化为诊所中新诊断和疗法方法。这是一个高度跨学科的研究领域，涉及来自生物，工程，物理和医学科学的科学家。最近，许多成像，制药和生物技术公司都建立了分子成像程序。最成功的计划，无论是在学术界还是行业中，都将是上面列出的各个领域的综合性，并且由多学科科学家领导，这些科学家受到足够深度和广度培训以产生新的想法并指导这些想法的执行。我们的专业培训计划的目标是培训学术界和工业分子成像领域的下一代领导者。 该培训计划基于生物医学工程，该学科旨在无缝整合工程，生物学和医学。它是成像科学的天然家园，它是分子成像研究的基础。我们建议通过精心构建的课程每年为六个学生提供支持，该课程将为他们提供工程，细胞和分子生物学，生理学，仪器，合成化学和数学方面的基本知识。分子成像课程将采用这些基本原理，并向学生展示如何将它们应用于特定的生物学问题。学员可以从16位教师导师中进行选择，这些导师跨越了分子成像研究主题的广度。此外，学员可以进行3个月的实习机会，以获得工业经验，参加每月的分子成像期刊俱乐部，并参加国际分子成像会议，以第一手观看该领域的最新发展，并与其他从事类似研究的科学家建立联系。