EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. The Gastroenterology Research Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is designed to promote the development of promising MD and PhD postdoctoral fellows as independent investigators and future university faculty members who will investigate the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases. Training of the postdoctoral fellow is individualized,and the most important component is conducted by the trainee in the faculty mentor's laboratory. Additional training includes didactic courses, seminars and conferences, and seminars on responsible conduct of research. The training faculty consists of 18 funded investigators from 11 basic science and clinical departments at the University of North Carolina, who are all full-time members of the NIDDK- funded Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD). These broadly based faculty have a documented history of close interactions promoting multidisciplinary research. The postdoctoral fellows benefit from the unique strengths of digestive disease research at the University of North Carolina, which include the CGIBD with its research cores, a research-oriented Pediatric Gastroenterology Division, a coordinated research training program, animal models of digestive diseases, outstanding programs in gastrointestinal epidemiology and biostatistics, a Gene Therapy Center, and a Center for Alcohol Studies. The training program is directed by Drs. David A. Brenner and R. Balfour Sartor with the assistance of three senior gastrointestinal researchers who constitute the Training Program Advisory Committee. The program recruits two new fellows each year for a total of four fellows from a pool of MD adult gastroenterology fellows, MD Pediatric gastroenterology fellows, and PhD postdoctoral fellows. For the MD fellows, this research training program follows the completion of subspecialty clinical training. The trainees receive two and usually more years of research training with external support sought for later years. This institutional training grant promotes intensive training in molecular techniques and basic pathophysiology in a stimulating diverse but integrated investigative environment leading to broadly trained independent investigators capable of adapting to the rapid advances in research. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
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