Welcome to the Pulmonary T32 Training Grant
Our T32 Multidisciplinary Training in Lung Biology and Pulmonary Medicine program builds on a long tradition of excellence in lung disease research. We aim to bring together an outstanding group of faculty mentors who are internationally recognized thought leaders in their respective disciplines. We are passionate about training the next generation of pulmonary researchers and physician-scientists and working in an institution that actively recruits faculty, trainees, and leaders from underrepresented backgrounds. We have designed an equitable and inclusive training program to provide personalized training opportunities. We will endow our trainees with the skills required to become leading independent researchers, educators, and policymakers in lung biology and pulmonary health sciences. Highlights of our training program include the following:
- Based in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester, with strong institutional support from by the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Environmental Medicine.
- Highly experienced faculty mentors with multiple co-authored publications and collaborative grant applications embodying the team science approach to research.
- A proven track record of fostering collaborations between basic scientists and clinician scientists, thus facilitating translational research.
- A training environment that stimulates curiosity and develops the capacity to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
Our training program supports three post-doctoral fellows and four pre-doctoral graduate students annually.
- Post-doctoral trainees can be either MD fellows from any clinical fellowship in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, or PhD post-doctoral fellows who are recruited by individual faculty mentors.
- Pre-doctoral trainees can come from any UR PhD program including the Immunology, Toxicology and Pathology Training Programs.
Affiliated Programs
Spotlight: Courtney Jackson, Ph.D.
What motivated you to become a scientist?
One of the ultimate opportunities to continually feed my curiosity. Being a scientist allows me to be able to ask questions about why things happen which lead to hypotheses that can be acted on by performing experiments. Which all of the work goes into trying to understand and improve human health. I think its cool to see and be apart of that whole process.
Why were you attracted to your current lab?
The Jarvinen-Seppo Lab focuses on understanding infant immunity in the context of allergic disease. What brought me to the lab was an opportunity to get into a new research topic (allergy) that I have always had an interest in and now I can study. In addition, I get to further explore infant immunity, now focusing on B cell immunity. I also get the chance to develop and optimize techniques to carry out many of my experiments so far
What do you like about the training environment at URMC?
So far, I have been impressed with the training environment here at URMC. The varied seminars, workshops and other resources that are available to trainees helps in developing into a well-rounded scientist.
Meet Our Trainees