Veterinary Summer Scholars in Comparative Medicine

比较医学兽医暑期学者

• 批准号: 8148001
• 负责人: BRUCE K WALCHECK
• 金额: $ 2.9万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-15 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8148001
• 关键词: Animal Disease Models; Biomedical Research; Cancer Biology; Chronic Disease; Clinical Research; Communication Research; Comparative Pathology; Comparative Physiology; Complement; Coupled; Data Analyses; Disease; Environment; Epidemiology; Ethics; Experimental Animal Model; Experimental Designs; Faculty; Focus Groups; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Human; Inflammatory; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Medicine; Mentors; Minnesota; Molecular; Physicians; Process; Qualifying; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Students; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; United States; Universities; Veterinarians; Writing; base; career; comparative; experience; lectures; meetings; programs; success; text searching

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Veterinarians are uniquely prepared for scientific discovery that benefits human health, particularly when their broad understanding of comparative physiology and pathology is coupled with mechanistic or translational research training. However, the United States suffers from an ever-worsening shortage of veterinarians with expertise in biomedical research. Summer research programs for veterinarians have had demonstrated success in increasing the number of veterinarians who pursue research careers, and our proposed T35 research training program "Veterinary Summer Scholars in Comparative Medicine" at the University of Minnesota will provide a mechanism that helps meet the need for greater numbers of veterinarians in biomedical research. The objectives of our T35 research training program are to provide veterinary students with: 1) opportunities to conduct biomedical research in an environment of discovery provided by active laboratories and mentors; and 2) research-relevant experiences in the form of lectures and discussions focused on experimental design, data analysis, research communication, literature searching, grant writing, and responsible conduct and ethics in research. The long-term goals of this training program are to increase the number of veterinarians who pursue biomedical research training after completing the veterinary degree and, ultimately, to increase the number of veterinarians who become productive independent investigators in the biomedical sciences. Our approach will consist of providing a wide breadth of research opportunities for students, from basic cellular and molecular bench research to theoretical and field epidemiology, to translational and clinical research, all built around the central theme of One Medicine, One Science at the University of Minnesota. The proposed training program includes a group of highly qualified research mentors, offers a wide array of state-of-the-art research experiences, and provides a rich and diverse environment for training veterinarians in research. The research laboratories of the training mentors are located on the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses of the University of Minnesota. Program faculty is grouped in two major focus groups: 1) Inflammatory and Chronic Diseases and 2) Cancer Biology. Within each focus group there are several biomedical research themes and significant interactions among faculty. The T35 program faculty study disease processes in humans, spontaneous animal disease models, and experimental animal models. The mentors include a complement of clinically-trained physicians and veterinarians that have clinically-based, extramurally funded research programs. Overall, our training environment will allow the trainees extensive interactions with researchers in a variety of fields. In Year 1 we propose to support five students pursuing DVM degrees, increasing this number by one student per year for a total of nine students in Year 5. The duration of training for each student will be 10 weeks, from June to August. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): There currently is a serious shortage of academic veterinarians who have the background and training to do independent biomedical research. The training program "Veterinary Summer Scholars in Comparative Medicine" at the University of Minnesota will introduce veterinary students to the culture of biomedical research and engage them in a creative, problem-solving research activity that leads to new knowledge and opens potential pathways to a career in scientific discovery that benefits human health.

描述（由申请人提供）：兽医为受益于人类健康的科学发现做好了独特的准备，尤其是当他们对比较生理学和病理学的广泛理解与机械或转化研究培训相结合时。但是，美国遭受了越来越多的兽医研究专业知识的兽医。明尼苏达大学的兽医夏季研究计划在增加从事研究职业的兽医数量方面已经表现出成功，我们提议的T35研究培训计划“比较医学上的兽医夏季学者”将提供一种机制，可以帮助满足生物医学研究中更多兽医的需求。我们T35研究培训计划的目标是为兽医学生提供：1）在活跃的实验室和导师提供的发现环境中进行生物医学研究的机会； 2）与研究和讨论的形式相关的研究经验，重点是实验设计，数据分析，研究沟通，文献搜索，授予写作以及负责任的研究和伦理学。该培训计划的长期目标是增加在完成兽医学位后接受生物医学研究培训的兽医数量，并最终增加成为生物医学科学领域有生产力的独立研究人员的兽医数量。我们的方法将为学生提供广泛的研究机会，从基本的蜂窝和分子凳研究到理论和现场流行病学，再到翻译和临床研究，所有这些都围绕着明尼苏达大学的一门医学的中心主题建立。拟议的培训计划包括一组高素质的研究导师，提供各种最先进的研究经验，并为培训研究兽医提供丰富而多样的环境。培训导师的研究实验室位于明尼苏达大学的圣保罗和明尼阿波利斯校园。计划教师分为两个主要焦点小组：1）炎症和慢性疾病以及2）癌症生物学。在每个焦点小组中，都有几个生物医学研究主题和教师之间的重大互动。 T35计划教师研究人类，自发动物疾病模型和实验动物模型的疾病过程。这些导师包括具有临床训练的医师和兽医的补充，这些医生和兽医拥有基于临床的，外部资助的研究计划。总体而言，我们的培训环境将使学员与各个领域的研究人员进行广泛的互动。在第1年，我们建议支持五名攻读DVM学位的学生，每年增加一名学生，在5年级的总共九名学生中，每个学生的培训期限为10周，从6月到八月。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：目前存在严重的缺乏学术兽医，他们的背景和培训可以进行独立的生物医学研究。明尼苏达大学的培训计划“比较医学的兽医夏季学者”将向兽医研究介绍生物医学研究的文化，并参与他们的创造性，解决问题的研究活动，从而导致新的知识，并为科学发现的职业开辟了潜在的途径，从而使人类健康受益。