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The training program within the Center provides broad-based, multidisciplinary training to predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in contemporary concepts in molecular and cellular physiology with specific emphasis on several subspecialties of reproductive biology. The goal of the training program is to prepare our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with the necessary state-of-the-art methodological tools and laboratory experience to develop into independent investigators. An NIH Training Grant in Reproductive Biology, established over 20 years ago, partially supports the training activities of the Center. For graduate students, and fellows entering from other fields, a wide range of graduate courses covering the fundamental principles of physiology, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, and advanced neuroendocrinology and reproductive physiology are offered. This is followed by independent research with members of the Center faculty, during which the motivation, imagination, originality and productivity of the trainees are tested and their research skills are developed and refined. Participants in the Center also have the opportunity to interact with students and postdoctoral fellows in related training program on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus. These include the Molecular and Cell Biology Program, the Membrane and Muscle Physiology Training Program, and the Neuroscience Program. |
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