Training Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Translational Neuroscience

分子、细胞和转化神经科学培训项目

• 批准号: 8881361
• 负责人: GORDON J FISHELL
• 金额: $ 18.33万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8881361
• 关键词: Molecular; Training Programs; translational neuroscience

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal describes an advanced predoctoral training program focused on molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience. The training program's goals are focused on (a) achieving a high-quality education in the fundamental principles and techniques that will prepare trainees for the intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience research; (b) generating in-depth and state-of-the-art laboratory research opportunities in the focus area, and (c) training in the necessary professional skills often overlooked during graduate education, including critical reading, grant writing, oral presentation, leadership, management, and networking. We will achieve these goals through a combination of advanced coursework, workshops, small group discussions, weekly seminars, trainee presentations, and structured (as well as more informal) meetings with program faculty. A well-thought out mentoring program will aid trainees' progress in the program and prepare the participants for their future careers in science. Neuroscience predoctoral trainees at NYU become an integral part of their research labs as well as the expansive neuroscience community at NYU, especially because the proposed training program brings together 30 faculty trainers from across NYU's major campuses. Although historically two related neuroscience graduate programs co-existed at NYU, faculty from both programs have taken several key steps to integrate their graduate training over the past 5-10 years. With substantial support from the University, we reached a new phase of program integration. The proposed training program will be instrumental in furthering the efforts to unify the extensive NYU neuroscience community, particularly those in the areas of molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience, whose ranks have recently increased substantially thanks to aggressive faculty recruitment by the NYU Center for Neural Science and the new NYU Neuroscience Institute. This thriving community, and especially the selected training faculty, supports a substantial graduate student population. We seek funding for 4 predoctoral students in their 3rd year or higher within this cohort; each will be appointed for 1 to 2 years, just priorto when we anticipate they will transition to independent funding. This size will provide a critical mass of trainees so as to firmly establish this training program within the context of the larger combined neuroscience graduate programs at NYU. Through our newly integrated graduate program, we provide trainees with a vast and rich intellectual environment and the resources and experience to confidently pursue their own scientific interests, which we hope will lead to future breakthroughs in basic neuroscience and the underlying mechanisms of neurological diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）：当前的建议描述了一项针对分子，细胞和转化神经科学的高级前训练计划。培训计划的目标集中在（a）实现基本原则和技术的高质量教育上，这将使受训者为现代神经科学研究的强烈协作和跨学科性质做好准备； （b）在焦点领域产生深入和最先进的实验室研究机会，以及（c）在研究生教育期间经常忽略的必要专业技能的培训，包括批判性阅读，赠款写作，口头表现，领导力，管理，管理和网络。我们将通过高级课程，讲习班，小组讨论，每周研讨会，学员演讲以及与计划教师的结构化（以及更非正式的）会议的结合来实现这些目标。经过深思熟虑的指导计划将有助于受训者在该计划中的进步，并为参与者做好准备的科学职业。纽约大学的神经科学前学员成为其研究实验室的组成部分以及纽约大学广阔的神经科学社区，尤其是因为拟议的培训计划汇集了来自纽约大学主要校园的30名教师教练。尽管历史上有两个相关的神经科学研究生课程在纽约大学共存，但两项计划的教师在过去的5 - 10年中采取了几个关键步骤，以整合其研究生培训。在大学的大力支持下，我们达到了计划集成的新阶段。拟议的培训计划将有助于促进统一广泛的NYU神经科学界的努力，尤其是分子，细胞和转化神经科学领域的纽约大学神经科学界，他们的等级最近大大提高，这要归功于NYU神经科学和新NYU NYU NYU NYUSECIENT INTUCTUTE的侵略性教师招聘。这个蓬勃发展的社区，尤其是选定的培训教师，支持了大量的研究生人数。我们在该队列中的第3年或更高的情况下为4名学生寻求资金；每个人都将被任命1到2年，只要我们预计他们将过渡到独立资金时。这种规模将提供大量的学员，以便在纽约大学更大的合并神经科学研究生计划的背景下牢固建立该培训计划。通过我们新综合的研究生课程，我们为受训者提供了庞大而丰富的知识环境以及自信地追求自己的科学利益的资源和经验，我们希望这将导致基本神经科学和神经疾病的基本机制的未来突破。