BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM

生物技术培训计划

• 批准号: 7914825
• 负责人: Gordon William Laurie
• 金额: $ 4.12万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7914825
• 关键词: Biotechnology; Training Programs

We seek five more years of support for the newly established Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at the University of Virginia. In the first four years of funding we have built the BTP into a highly interactive community of PhD trainees drawn selectively from an annual Spring competition open to PhD students from all science and engineering departments university-wide. BTP students in training (16) or graduated (2; plus several this summer) entered with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.53, include two minorities, and are currently hosted by seven different departments. One trainee received the top graduate student award in UVa's basic medical sciences in '03, another was runnerup, and a third was recently nominated for '04. Trainees have published 28 peer reviewed articles, submitted 69 abstracts, experienced nine different company externships, and are planning eight more in the US and overseas. Trainees have taken direct responsibility for programmatic features of the BTP including: editorship of the BTP newsletter, organization of BTP Minority Day, high school outreach, BTP poster presentations at other institutions, organization of BTP seminars, social activities, new student dinner, BTP Symposia, and the BTP website. Mentoring our trainees is a highly engaged, collaborative and well-funded faculty of thirty-seven individualsfrom departments nationally ranked by NIH funding as high as #3 (Cell Biology) and #5 (Microbiology). Institutional support has been essential for our success, particularly the important role of the Graduate Programs Office in day to day administration of the Program. Also important has been sustained funding of three extra slots by the Deans of Engineering and Medicine, and the enthusiastic organization of company tours and externships by the Health Science Development Office. We view the BTP's mission as threefold: (i) most importantly to train our students to do the best science possible, (ii) to provide a meaningful experience in industrial science via our externship program, and (iii) to promote scientific synergy among BTP students of different disciplines through regular BTP Journal Clubs/Data Sessions, Seminars and Symposia. We argue in the following competitive renewal that success in each of these areas has been achieved, thereby helping to develop a new generation of young scientists who approach new scientific challenges with analytical minds and an extensive array of modern technologies.

我们为弗吉尼亚大学新设立的生物技术培训计划 (BTP) 寻求五年的支持。 在资助的前四年里，我们将 BTP 打造成一个高度互动的博士生社区，其中的博士生是有选择地从 一年一度的春季竞赛，向全校所有科学和工程系的博士生开放。 BTP 学生 培训（16）或毕业（2；再加上今年夏天的几个）以平均本科 GPA 3.53 入学，包括两个少数族裔， 目前由七个不同的部门主办。一名学员获得弗吉尼亚大学基础学科最高研究生奖 03 年的医学科学，另一个获得亚军，最近又获得了 04 年的第三名提名。学员已发表28篇同行文章 审阅了文章，提交了 69 篇摘要，经历了九次不同的公司实习，并计划在美国再进行八次实习 和海外。学员直接负责 BTP 的规划功能，包括： BTP 的编辑 时事通讯、组织 BTP 少数族裔日、高中外展、在其他机构展示 BTP 海报、组织 BTP 研讨会、社交活动、新生晚宴、BTP 研讨会和 BTP 网站。指导我们的学员是一项高度 敬业、协作且资金充足的教职人员，由来自 NIH 资助的全国各院系的 37 名人员组成 高达#3（细胞生物学）和#5（微生物学）。机构支持对于我们的成功至关重要，尤其是重要的 研究生项目办公室在项目日常管理中的作用。同样重要的是持续提供资金 工程学院院长和医学院院长额外提供了三个名额，以及学院院长热情组织的公司参观和实习 健康科学发展办公室。我们认为 BTP 的使命有三个：(i) 最重要的是培训我们的学生 尽可能最好的科学，（ii）通过我们的实习计划提供工业科学方面有意义的经验，以及（iii） 通过定期的 BTP 期刊俱乐部/数据会议、研讨会，促进不同学科的 BTP 学生之间的科学协同 和研讨会。我们认为，在接下来的竞争更新中，这些领域中的每一个都已经取得了成功，因此 帮助培养新一代年轻科学家，以分析思维和洞察力应对新的科学挑战 广泛的现代技术。