Yale Head and Neck Cancer SPORE Career Enhancement Program

摘要 确保头颈部研究从长椅到床边取得新进展的关键要素 癌症是为了吸引、培养和支持这一领域的新研究人员。职业提升计划(CEP) 耶鲁大学头颈部孢子的核心目标是这一点。北方大学耶鲁大学的社区 卡罗莱纳州和福克斯·蔡斯癌症中心为推广这一计划提供了理想的环境。每所院校 坚定不移地致力于促进基础、翻译和临床癌症研究。有一种特殊的 初级教职员工、研究员和资深调查人员具有推动翻译工作的杰出潜力 头颈部癌症研究，外加一支由老牌头颈部研究人员组成的专门队列，为 作为导师和合作者。以确保将有一条新的、改进的和迫切需要的管道 为了向头颈部癌症患者提供治疗，增加翻译人员的劳动力是至关重要的 驱使研究人员更好地了解这种疾病，并有动力开发新的 减少头颈部癌症发病率和死亡率的治疗。为实现这一目标， CEP是(1)确定、支持和指导有前途的早期职业基础知识和翻译调查人员，以 从事头颈癌研究，(2)促进已有新定义的老牌调查人员的职业生涯 有兴趣从事头颈部癌症的转化研究，以及(3)为发展 一支多元化的头颈癌翻译工作队伍。这对于一种癌症来说尤其重要 不成比例地加重了有色人种社区的负担，比如癌症周围社区的社区 位于纽黑文、教堂山和费城的中心。CEP每年将支持最多四名获奖者 每年将获得高达50,000美元的资金，以支持他们的研究事业提升活动。这些获奖者 将抽签给耶鲁大学、北卡罗来纳大学和fccc社区，这些社区是通过仔细和明确的程序选出的， 并得到了Yhn-Sporter社区的专业知识和资源的支持。这些CEP获奖者将继续 在下一代内科科学家和致力于 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.