Undergraduate education and recruiting students to toxicology Training of graduate students (both in general background and specific areas such as regulatory and risk assessment) Retraining and professional development of current members General toxic

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www.bwfund.org
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BWF Program in 2000

• Therapeutic Sciences Program Area

• Translational Research
• Pharmacology
• Toxicology

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BWF Program in 2000
2001

• Therapeutic Sciences Program Area

• Translational Research
• Pharmacology
• Toxicology

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Program Unifying Populationand Laboratory Based
Sciences

• multifactorial disease processes
• evolution of and relationships between host,
  pathogen, vector, and reservoirs
• biomarker identification and validation
• effects of environmental exposure to toxins,
  allergens, and immunogens

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Laboratory and Population Sciences Training
Program In Gene/Environment Interactions

• Biostatistical principles and methods
• Biomarkers in population-based research
• Molecular genetic tools genotyping, sequencing,
  proteomics, etc.
• Informatics toward gene / environment interactions

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UCLA Inter-school Training Program in Metabolic
Diseases

• Metabolic Diseases

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Human Health Molecules to Mankind

• predictive health
• population processes and dynamics
• biomarkers and the development of acute and
  chronic diseases
• public health genomics.

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Training at Scientific Interfaces

• Training bilingual scientists
• Complications to the curriculum
• Logistics

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How to ensure that shared trainees get a
rigorous education at allmuch less a rigorous
education that crosses two fields?
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• If someone like this came
• to interview for a faculty position,
• would they be an
• exciting candidate
• for a tenure track job?

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• Can we begin to build a community around
  researchers working at this interface?
• Where are the existing
• centers of excellence?

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