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IBGP
NEWS
NIH
Awards IBGP Funding for New Training Grant
The National Institute
of General Medical Sciences has awarded funding for a
training grant entitled "Integrative Training
in Biomedical Systems." This will be active beginning July
1, 2005 and initially support three first year students.
The following is an abstract from the funded proposal describing
the program.
Students for this
program will be selected from the pool of students in the first
year of the IBGP on the basis of academic achievements and
an interest in interdisciplinary studies on mechanisms of human
disease. During the first 2 years of training these students
will take a rigorous, broadly based core curriculum consisting
of lectures, seminars, group discussions and laboratory rotations.
At the end of year 1 all students choose a dissertation advisor
and advisory committee who guide them in an interdisciplinary
research project, and advise them on the selection of advanced
courses and seminars. These will help them to integrate material
related to their cross-disciplinary dissertation research on
complex interactions underlying the mechanisms responsible
for human disease(s). After the first year, students in the
program will take an advanced seminar in integrated biomedical
science for at least one quarter each year. To assist students
in the choice of courses and seminars after completion of the
core courses, there are suggested curricula in 11 traditional
research disciplines, which if followed will result in their
final transcripts designating this area as a graduate specialization.
Many students in this program will probably want to obtain
graduate specialization in more than one area (referred to
as areas of research emphasis). This training program has excellent
graduate faculty in each of these 11 areas of research emphasis
who can serve as dissertation advisors and advisory committee
members, and one of these faculty members serves as a faculty
liaison for an area. This faculty member is available to discuss
with students different aspects of the area of research emphasis
(s)he represents. The candidacy exam will be taken early in
the third year. It will consist of: (1) A grant proposal written
by the student on the proposed interdisciplinary dissertation
research project; (2) An oral examination to test the student's
integration of information and concepts related to the proposed
cross-disciplinary research project. Subsequent to completion
of the candidacy examination, most of the students' efforts
will be spent on research that will culminate in a dissertation
that will be defended orally; the time to graduation should
be no more than 5 years. We believe that the curriculum, faculty
and resources supporting this training program will attract
outstanding students who will become distinguished, productive
scientists in integrative biomedical research. A special effort is being made to recruit minority students and women.
The
IBGP Annual Retreat will be held at the Fawcett Center
on Saturday, January 5, 2008. For more information contact Christine
Kerr at 292-0857.
IBGP
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January 26, 2001 Vol. 291 Number 5504 pp. 710-714
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