TRAINING GRANTS

Training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows is supported by three NIH-funded institutional grants that are housed within the Department. These training grants, although interdepartmental, reflect research and training areas in which the Department has been a leader. The Cell Physiology Program is concerned with providing training in integration of functions of genes and proteins at the cellular level. Major emphasis is placed on cellular regulatory biology consisting of protein structure, cell signaling, ion transport, and gene regulation. The Cleveland Training Program in Cardiovascular Research focuses on basic mechanisms of cell physiology, biochemistry and biophysics pertinent to heart and cardiovascular disease, in particular, to arteriosclerosis, hypertension, ischemic heart diseases, coronary artery diseases and arrhythmia. The Heart-Lung Physiology Program provides interdisciplinary training in the areas of cardiac and respiratory systems with focus on integration from the molecular level to whole animals or humans, including the intermediate levels of cells and intact organs.