Physiology & Cell Biology
Physiology & Cell Biology
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NIH Grant to Train Students in Biomedical ResearchOhio State’s Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program has been awarded a $1,060,879 training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant, part of a "Systems and Integrative Biology” program funded by the National Institute of General Medical Science, will train students in the Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program (IBGP) at Ohio State. Dr. Allan J. Yates, MD, PhD, Associate Dean for Graduate Student Education at Ohio State’s College of Medicine and Public Health and director of both the IBGP and the MD/PhD (Medical Scientist Program), will serve as Principle Investigator. "This training program grant will attract outstanding students to the IBGP, and prepare them to become distinguished, productive scientists in integrative biomedical research," remarked Yates. The grant will support a total of 27 students during the first two years of their IBGP programs, three students the first year of the grant period and six for each of the succeeding four years. The funds, which will provide a stipend and cover tuition costs, fees and travel for the students, as well as training expenses, amount to over $39,000 per student over the five-year period. Candidates for the program will be selected from a pool of students entering the IBGP on the basis of academic achievement and an interest in interdisciplinary studies on mechanisms of human disease. During the first two years of their programs, IBGP students take courses in a rigorous and broadly based core curriculum, which consists of lectures, seminars, group discussions and laboratory rotations. The remainder of the program includes advanced seminars in integrated biomedical science, followed by specialization in at least one of eleven research disciplines. The program concludes with a candidacy exam that includes a grant proposal written on the proposed interdisciplinary dissertation research project and an oral examination to test the student's integration of information and concepts related to the research project. The program takes an average of five years to complete. |
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