Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program

生物医学科学中的微流控培训计划

• 批准号: 7673493
• 负责人: ROBERT T KENNEDY
• 金额: $ 26.83万
• 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/7673493
• 关键词: Microfluidics; Science; Training Programs

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）： 微流体领域独特地准备通过生物实验的小型化和大规模并行化对生物医学科学产生广泛影响。例如，未来 微流体技术的进步可能会彻底改变疾病诊断、药物发现和病原体检测。为了实现这些影响，我们需要精通工程、化学、生物科学和医学的人才。然而，目前这种经过交叉培训的人才供不应求。为了解决这一短缺问题，我们提出了一项为期五年的计划来培训下一代生物医学微流体专家。该项目结合了工程、化学和医学院教师的专业知识，以及世界一流的固态电子实验室 (SSEL) 和微机械集成 DMA 分析技术 (MIDAT) 设施，用于最先进的微米和纳米制造。该计划的前提是学生应该在以下两个方面接受大量培训 微流体方法以及该技术的生物医学应用。此类培训加强了学科之间的交流，识别可解决的和临床相关的问题，并选择适当的工具来解决这些问题。 该项目的学生培训将包括讲座和实验室课程、研讨会和讲习班计划、跨学科实验室轮换和联合导师，以及超出受训者所在部门要求的年度研讨会。该项目的核心课程“微流体系统中的传输”已于两年前开发完成。工程和基础科学的学生已经完成了课程。由研究生开发和运营的研讨会和讲习班项目于去年设立，非常成功。除了内部和外部演讲者之外，该系列还设有讲授微流体原理的研讨会和教程课程。我们希望在该提案的资助下实施额外的计划。我们认为，实践培训、跨学科接触和强化微流体研究的结合将使学生能够很好地满足对受过高等教育和训练有素的微流体专家日益增长的需求。