Lung Biology T32 Training Program

Our program is based on the philosophy that successful development of a pulmonary scientist requires a well-designed, carefully crafted educational continuum from secondary school AP science courses to the award of a major research grant, or appointment as a research team leader in the private sector. These key tenets position this T32 to best meet each student’s needs and maximize the chance that each trainee can become a successful pulmonary scientist.

• Enroll a diverse group of talented and motivated students to embark on training.

• Maintain a training cohort with stable numbers in each level of training, providing an identifiable peer group for intellectual and social support.

• Provide a broad range of well-defined pre-doctoral and post-doctoral level curricular pathways, matching expectations with opportunities.

• Maintain a diverse multidisciplinary faculty blend of the very best University-wide physician-scientist and basic-scientist faculty to optimize intellectual vigor and provide proper role models for all trainees.

• Combine the skills of MD and Ph.D. scientists from multiple disciplines in the program of each trainee.

• Provide opportunities to interact with distinguished visiting faculty.

• Use our large, land grant research university status to provide broad, interdisciplinary collaborative research and curricular activities in key new scientific areas related to lung science, such as bio-informatics, biomedical engineering, proteomics, metabolomics, and computational biology.

• Educate Ph.D. scientists about pulmonary pathobiology and disease so that their research is more applicable to pathophysiology and therapy of disease and they are interested in long term careers in lung-related research.

• Position trainees for success in team-based translational research by providing career development advising, professional skills and team science experience.