Integrative Lipid Sciences, Inflammation, and Chronic Diseases Training Program
Overview
The Integrative Lipid Sciences, Inflammation, and Chronic Diseases Training Program (hereafter referred to as "Training Program") is designed to provide research training for pre-doctoral students in the broad and expanding discipline of lipid sciences, with a particular emphasis on the relationships among lipid metabolism, inflammation, and chronic diseases.
The Training Program has 12 mentors who have primary academic appointments in five departments and will draw trainees from four different graduate programs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Wake Forest University.
The Training Program is administered by a director (Dr. John Parks) and an associate director (Dr. Gregory Shelness).
This Training Program has evolved from the natural, ongoing collaborations and common research interests in lipid sciences of a number of established investigators who have been assembled onto one floor of a new state-of-the-art research building (3rd floor of Biotechnology Research Facility 1 with 33,000 ft2 of space) on the downtown campus of the Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS). The new downtown campus is located 1.5 miles from the central medical school campus and is part of the Piedmont Triad Research Park. The combination of facilities, faculty, and other resources provides a rich and vibrant interdisciplinary training environment for graduate students interested in focusing their research in the area of lipid sciences and chronic disease research.
In addition, several program faculty members, including Drs. Chilton, Rudel, and Parks, are part of the new Center for Botanical Lipids at WFUHS, one of five dietary supplement research centers focusing on studies of botanical products that have been jointly funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), both components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). [Link]
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