Training in Oral and Craniofacial Biology

口腔和颅面生物学培训

• 批准号: 7634472
• 负责人: NORMAN CAPRA
• 金额: $ 76.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7634472
• 关键词: Biology; Oral; Training; craniofacial

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the comprehensive training program in Oral and Craniofacial Biology is to train highly skilled, interactive basic and clinical scientists who can successfully address the expanding research opportunities in dental, oral and craniofacial research. At the University of Maryland, we have demonstrated the ability to provide an environment of flexible but integrated training opportunities in dental, oral and craniofacial research. By offering a broad selection of training options which serves a diverse population of college, dental, PhD and combined DDS-PhD students as well as junior and mid-career faculty, we plan to accomplish our primary objective of developing independent investigators in basic, clinical, and translational research. Secondary objectives are to train individuals to become important contributors to larger multidisciplinary research teams and to generate an appreciation of the need for continued oral health research in all of our students. The training program capitalizes on the unique geographic proximity between major medical centers in the City of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. and includes an expert faculty of more than 60 established scientists to provide mentoring for students and dental faculty. Training is organized around four major thematic areas of strength in clinical and basic research. These thematic areas of expertise are Hard Tissue and Neoplastic Diseases, Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases, Oral and Craniofacial Chronic Sensory Disorders, and Oral and Craniofacial Motor Disorders. Primary emphasis is placed on cross-disciplinary approaches that involve integration of basic, translational and clinical research in each trainee program. Toward this end we are initiating new partnerships with the School of Medicine. We plan to offer a new curriculum of formal clinical training for postdoctoral dentists and we are consolidating our graduate education into a system of campus-wide interdepartmental graduate programs in basic and translational science. Our program design includes a horizontal organization in which basic and clinical research trainees interact across disciplines and a vertical organization which provides more experienced trainees the opportunity to train younger scientists. We are particularly dedicated to enhanced training opportunities for underrepresented minorities and women in research relevant to improvement of oral health and better treatment of oral diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）：口腔和颅面生物学综合培训计划的总体目标是培训高技能，互动基础和临床科学家，他们可以成功地解决牙齿，口腔和颅面研究的扩展研究机会。在马里兰大学，我们已经证明了在牙科，口腔和颅面研究中提供灵活但综合培训机会的环境的能力。通过提供各种各样的培训选择，这些选择为大学，牙科，博士学位和联合DDS-PHD学生以及初级和中级教职员工提供服务，我们计划实现我们在基础，临床和翻译研究中开发独立研究人员的主要目标。次要目标是培训个人，成为更大的多学科研究团队的重要贡献者，并对我们所有学生的持续口腔健康研究的需求产生欣赏。该培训计划利用了巴尔的摩市和华盛顿特区主要医疗中心之间独特的地理位置，其中包括一位由60多名成熟的科学家组成的专家学院，为学生和牙科教师提供指导。培训是在临床和基础研究中的四个主要主题领域组织的。这些专业知识的主题领域是硬组织和肿瘤疾病，感染性和自身免疫性疾病，口腔和颅面慢性慢性感觉障碍，以及口服和颅面运动障碍。主要重点是跨学科方法，涉及每个受训人员计划中基本，转化和临床研究的整合。为此，我们正在与医学院建立新的伙伴关系。我们计划为博士后牙医提供新的正式临床培训课程，并将研究生教育整合到基础科学和转化科学领域的整个校园间研究生课程中。我们的计划设计包括一个水平组织，基础和临床研究受训者跨学科和​​一个垂直组织互动，该组织为更多经验丰富的学员提供了培训年轻科学家的机会。我们特别致力于增强代表性不足的少数民族和妇女的培训机会，以改善口腔健康和更好地治疗口腔疾病。