Yale Head and Neck Cancer SPORE Career Enhancement Program

总结 一个关键因素，以确保新的进展，将研究从实验室到床边的头部和颈部 癌症是吸引，培养和支持新的研究人员在这一领域。职业提升计划（CEP） 耶鲁大学头颈部孢子的核心目标就是这个。北耶鲁大学的社区 卡罗莱纳和福克斯蔡斯癌症中心提供了一个理想的环境，以促进这一计划。每个机构 致力于促进基础、转化和临床癌症研究。有一个例外 一群年轻的教师，研究员和具有杰出潜力的研究人员，以促进翻译 头颈部癌症研究，加上一个专门的队列建立头颈部研究人员， 作为导师和合作者。以确保将有一个新的，改进的和急需的管道 为了给头颈癌患者提供更好的治疗，必须增加翻译人员的数量。 研究人员被驱使对这种疾病有更深入的了解，并有动力开发新的 降低头颈癌发病率和死亡率的治疗。为实现这一目标， CEP是（1）识别，支持和指导有前途的早期职业基础知识和翻译研究人员， 工作在头部和颈部癌症，（2）以提高建立研究人员谁有新定义的职业生涯 有兴趣从事头颈癌的转化研究，以及（3）为发展 一个多样化的头颈癌翻译工作队伍。这对于癌症尤其重要， 不成比例地加重了有色人种社区的负担，比如我们癌症周围的社区。 在纽黑文，查佩尔山和费城的中心。CEP每年将支持最多四名获奖者， 每年将获得高达50，000美元，以支持他们的研究职业提升活动。这些获奖者 将通过一个仔细和明确的过程， 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 在下一代医生科学家和翻译研究人员中占据一席之地， 解决头颈癌最紧迫的问题。

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.