Visual Sciences Training Program (VSTP)

视觉科学培训计划（VSTP）

• 批准号: 10615907
• 负责人: Krzysztof Palczewski
• 金额: $ 9.86万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10615907
• 关键词: Training Programs; vision science

PROJECT SUMMARY The UC Irvine Vision Science Training Program (VSTP) is specifically designed to train PhD and MD/PhD candidates who will advance research on the causes, diagnosis, progression and treatment of human visual impairments. The goals of this multidisciplinary, inter-departmental training program are to (i) provide high quality research training in basic sciences disciplines that are relevant to vision research and (ii) provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative and translational research so that our trainees can skillfully function in an interactive research environment and draw clinical correlates from their basic findings. A strength of our program will be that all trainees will receive mentoring that is both discipline-specific, i.e. departmental and thematic, i.e. within and across four broad visual sciences areas that encompass the VSTP; (a) Anterior segment and ocular surface, (b) Metabolism & visual processing, (c) Retina and retinal diseases, and (d) Lens. Through our program’s progressive design, trainees will first participate in didactic training to establish a strong foundation in cell and molecular biology, followed by additional didactic training in the biochemistry and molecular biology of all major components of the eye and visual processing. They will then acquire advanced understanding in an area of specialization via advanced courses and thesis research, which are organized according to the four research themes described above. The VSTP leverages UC Irvine’s robust vision science community, bringing together an outstanding group of clinicians and scientists with strong track records of vision research and mentoring. By leveraging these strengths, the VSTP is uniquely poised to produce vision scientists that can creatively apply contemporary research approaches toward understanding problems in vision and ophthalmology.

项目概要 加州大学欧文分校视觉科学培训计划 (VSTP) 专为培养博士和医学博士/博士而设计 将推进人类视觉的原因、诊断、进展和治疗研究的候选人 这个多学科、跨部门培训计划的目标是 (i) 提供高水平的培训。 与视觉研究相关的基础科学学科的高质量研究培训，并且（ii）提供 跨学科合作和转化研究的机会，使我们的学员能够熟练地 在交互式研究环境中发挥作用，并从其基本发现中得出临床相关性。 我们计划的一个重点是所有学员都将接受特定学科的指导，即部门的指导 和主题，即包含 VSTP 的四个广泛视觉科学领域之内和之间 (a) 前部； 节段和眼表面，(b) 新陈代谢和视觉处理，(c) 视网膜和视网膜疾病，以及 (d) 晶状体。 通过我们项目的渐进式设计，学员将首先参加教学培训，以建立强大的 细胞和分子生物学基础，然后是生物化学和分子生物学方面的额外教学培训 然后他们将获得眼睛所有主要组成部分的分子生物学和视觉处理能力。 通过高级课程和论文研究来了解专业领域 根据上述四个研究主题，VSTP 利用了加州大学欧文分校强大的视觉科学。 社区，汇集了一群杰出的信徒和科学家，他们在 通过利用这些优势，VSTP 能够以独特的方式实现愿景。 能够创造性地应用当代研究方法来理解问题的科学家 视力和眼科。