The overall goal of the MDCRC Training and Education Core is to provide trainees with the skills necessaryto translate advances in basic science muscular disease research into well-designed human clinical trials. Tobe successful the trainees must have an understanding of the concepts, features, and limitations of theinterventions to be used in clinical studies, the biology of the inherited disease target to be approached, theethics of human and animal research and the importance of well designed clinical trials to answer specificquestions. These concepts will be taught through a series of formal courses and seminars, discussions withscientists and ethicists, regular interactions with clinical scientists and interactions with basic scientists.Mentored research under the direction of the MDCRC director and co-director will present trainees with thepractical skills needed to pursue careers in translational research.
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