Developing Research Careers in the Hearing Sciences

发展听力科学研究事业

• 批准号: 7591677
• 负责人: LINDA J. HOOD
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7591677
• 关键词: Academia; Achievement; Address; Aging; Animal Model; Animals; Area; Arts; Audiology; Auditory; Basic Science; Caliber; Childhood; Clinical; Cochlear Implants; Communities; Data; Development; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational process of instructing; Enrollment; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Hearing; Individual; Inherited; Institution; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Motion Perception; Noise; Physiology; Preparation; Public Health; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Support; Research Training; Science; Societies; Speech; Students; Stuttering; Time; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Universities; base; career; experience; field study; hearing impairment; human subject; interdisciplinary collaboration; interest; meetings; multisensory; pre-doctoral; programs; relating to nervous system; reward processing; skills; speech recognition

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Research Training Program is proposed to provide experience in hearing research to predoctoral students who are enrolled in a clinically based degree (Au.D.) program. The long-term goal is to develop interest in pursuing a career in hearing research. This objective addresses current concern about decreasing numbers of students pursuing research careers in audiology and hearing science. Short-term full-time research support is requested for four predoctoral (Au.D.) students per year for each of the five years of the grant. Trainees will obtain research experience in the research laboratories of ten preceptors in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Areas of research in these laboratories span basic science and translational research in animal and human subjects and address topics including cochlear and neural physiology in development and aging, hereditary hearing loss, spatial localization, motion perception, directional hearing and amplification, pediatric audiology, speech recognition in noise, cochlear implants, auditory neural and multisensory cortical function in animal models, and cortical function in stuttering. The full-time research training at the end of the third year of the Au.D. program will be preceded by research-related coursework and a one semester research elective in preparation for the full- time research training. Strengths of the proposed Vanderbilt program are the standing of the Vanderbilt Au.D. program in the academic community, the high caliber of the students, preceptors who teach in and are familiar with the Vanderbilt Au.D. program, the variety of research programs, and the commitment of the faculty and institution demonstrated by plans for specific coursework and activities to maximize the benefit of the NIH-NIDCD supported research training. The research environment is excellent with new state-of-the-art laboratories and numerous interdisciplinary collaborations. Trainees will complete their short-term experience by submitting their research for presentation at a national meeting that emphasizes science and participating in publication of the research. Researchers with clinical backgrounds who develop research skills and careers are well-suited to identify and solve public health problems. The proposed program will provide a focused research experience for students training in clinical audiology with the goal of developing interest in pursuing a research career in hearing. This will benefit society by insuring a strong future for research related to hearing health.

描述（由申请人提供）：建议开展研究培训计划，为就读临床学位 (Au.D.) 课程的博士前学生提供听力研究经验。长期目标是培养从事听力研究职业的兴趣。这一目标解决了当前对从事听力学和听力科学研究的学生数量减少的担忧。在资助的五年中，每年要求四名博士前（Au.D.）学生获得短期全日制研究支持。学员将在范德比尔特大学听力和言语科学系的十名导师的研究实验室中获得研究经验。这些实验室的研究领域涵盖动物和人类受试者的基础科学和转化研究，涉及的主题包括发育和衰老中的耳蜗和神经生理学、遗传性听力损失、空间定位、运动感知、定向听力和放大、儿科听力学、语音识别噪声、人工耳蜗、动物模型中的听觉神经和多感觉皮层功能以及口吃中的皮层功能。 Au.D.第三学年结束时的全日制研究培训在课程开始之前，将先进行与研究相关的课程和一学期的研究选修课，为全日制研究培训做准备。拟议的范德比尔特计划的优势在于范德比尔特大学博士的地位。学术界的项目、高素质的学生、在范德比尔特大学任教并熟悉该大学的导师。项目、各种研究项目以及教师和机构的承诺，这些承诺通过特定课程和活动的计划来体现，以最大限度地发挥 NIH-NIDCD 支持的研究培训的效益。研究环境非常优越，拥有最先进的新实验室和众多跨学科合作。学员将通过在强调科学的全国会议上提交研究成果并参与研究成果的发表来完成他们的短期体验。具有临床背景、发展研究技能和职业的研究人员非常适合识别和解决公共卫生问题。拟议的项目将为临床听力学培训的学生提供重点研究经验，目的是培养对听力研究职业的兴趣。这将确保听力健康相关研究的美好未来，造福社会。