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Dr. Spotswood Spruance / Dr. Adi Gundlapalli - BIODEFENSE IN CLINICAL TRANSLATION

Specific Aim. The specific aim of this career development project is to provide advanced training for health professionals to assume a leadership role in biodefense and emerging infectious disease clinical research. Key components will be facilitation of communication and collaborations between clinical and basic scientists, development of understanding of public health practice and policy, and establishment of connections to facilitate the translational research of the RCE basic scientists, especially in development and trials of diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics.

Objectives, design and methods. The objective of the program will be to train individuals to be able to perform clinical/translational research such as to augment the number of individuals in government, industry and academia who are skilled in biodefense and emerging infectious disease research. A clinical/translational sciences research career development program will be established at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) in Salt Lake City, Utah. There will be one new trainee per year, either in Pediatrics Infectious Diseases or Adult Infectious Diseases, depending on the training of qualified applicants. Career development trainees will have completed a year of clinical infectious training at the UUHSC or at a comparable program else where. They will then take a two year biodefense traiing program composed of the following elements:

1. Required Courses in Biosage and Ethics.
2. Clinical Microbiology/Virology Laboratory Training.
3. Training Program in Clincial Investigation (TPCI).
4. Research Project.

Progress Report. Dr. Adi Gundlapalli, an internist with board certification in Internal Medicine and in Infectious Diseases, currently and adjunct faculty member of the School of Medicine, will join our Division of Clinical as a junior faculty and willbe our first RCE trainee. He will work under the mentorship of the project Co-Pl, Dr. Matthew Samore, and his research project is entitled "Role of computer-based automated systems in the early diagnosis of agents of bioterrorism and infectious emerging diseases." His training will take place from January 9, 2006 until June 30, 2007. A new trainee is being sought for a two-year period beginning July1, 2007.