Yale Head and Neck Cancer SPORE Career Enhancement Program

摘要 确保头颈研究从实验室到临床取得新进展的关键要素 癌症的目的是吸引、培养和支持该领域的新研究人员。职业提升计划（CEP） 耶鲁头颈 SPORE 以此为核心目标。耶鲁大学、北方大学的社区 卡罗莱纳州和福克斯蔡斯癌症中心为推广该项目提供了理想的环境。各机构 坚定致力于促进基础、转化和临床癌症研究。有一种特殊的 一群具有推动转化的杰出潜力的初级教师、研究员和知名研究人员 头颈癌症研究，加上一组专门的头颈研究人员来服务 作为导师和合作者。确保有一系列新的、改进的和急需的产品 为头颈癌患者提供治疗方法，增加转化人员队伍至关重要 研究人员渴望更好地了解这种疾病并开发新的 降低头颈癌发病率和死亡率的治疗方法。为实现这一目标，该组织的具体目标 CEP (1) 识别、支持和指导有前途的早期职业基础知识和转化研究人员 致力于头颈癌的工作，(2) 提高新定义的已建立研究人员的职业生涯 有兴趣从事头颈癌的转化研究，以及（3）为以下领域的发展做出贡献： 多元化的头颈癌转化工作队伍。这对于癌症尤其重要 给有色人种社区带来了不成比例的负担，例如癌症周围社区的负担 中心位于纽黑文、教堂山和费城。 CEP 每年将支持最多四名获奖者 每年将获得高达 50,000 美元的资助，以支持他们的研究职业发展活动。这些获奖者 将为耶鲁大学、北卡罗来纳大学和 FCCC 社区抽选，通过仔细和明确的流程进行选择， 并得到 YHN-SPORE 社区的专业知识和资源的支持。这些 CEP 获奖者将继续 在下一代医学科学家和转化研究人员中占据一席之地，致力于 解决头颈癌中最紧迫的问题。

SUMMARY A critical element to ensure new advances that translate research from bench to bedside in head and neck cancer is to attract, foster and support new investigators in this area. The Career Enhancement Program (CEP) of the Yale Head and Neck SPORE has this as its core goal. The communities of Yale, University of North Carolina and Fox Chase Cancer Center provide an ideal environment to promote this program. Each institution is strongly committed to promoting basic, translational and clinical cancer research. There is an exceptional pool of junior faculty, fellows and established investigators with outstanding potential to advance translational head and neck cancer research, plus a dedicated cohort of established head and neck investigators to serve as mentors and collaborators. To ensure that there will be a pipeline of new, improved and much needed therapies to offer to head and neck cancer patients, it is essential to increase the workforce of translational researchers who are driven to gain greater understanding of this disease and motivated to develop new treatments to reduce head and neck cancer morbidity and mortality. To achieve this the specific aims of the CEP are (1) to identify, support and mentor promising early career basics and translational investigators to work in head and neck cancer, (2) to enhance the careers of established investigators who have newly-defined interest in pursuing translational research in head and neck cancer, and (3) to contribute to the development of a diverse head and neck cancer translational work force. This is of particular importance for a cancer which disproportionately burdens communities of color, such as those in the communities surrounding our cancer centers in New Haven, Chapel Hill and Philadelphia. The CEP will support up to four awardees per year who will receive up to $50,000 per year to support their research career enhancement activities. These awardees will be drawn for the Yale, UNC and FCCC communities, selected through a careful and well-defined process, and supported by the expertise and resources of the YHN-SPORE community. These CEP awardees will go on to take their place in the next generation of physician scientists and translational researchers dedicated to address the most urgent issues in head and neck cancer.