CANARY CANCER RESEARCH EDUCATION SUMMER TRAINING (CANARY CREST) PROGRAM

项目概要/摘要：斯坦福大学金丝雀癌症早期检测中心（“金丝雀 中心”）是一个世界级的设施，其使命是促进跨学科研究，从而发展 血液检测和分子成像方法，通过整合研究， 体内和体外诊断来提供这些测试。在这项使命中，需要正式提出 为各级科学界提供新的和创新的方法。金丝雀癌症研究教育 夏季培训（金丝雀CREST）计划通过向学生介绍研究来履行教育使命 教育和新的职业道路。该计划的总体目标是培养新一代跨学科的 通过在早期阶段提供综合的实践研究经验， 他们的科学教育金丝雀CREST计划是一个为期10周的夏季教学计划， 本科生在生物，工程，数学，或物理科学，并提供了一个 结构化的研究经验，重点是早期癌症检测。该计划将由 金丝雀中心，汇集了28名教师的研究小组致力于多学科小组 涉及使用生物化学中的实验和计算方法的早期癌症检测领域， 生物工程、生物信息学、分子成像和癌症生物学。Canary CREST计划 活动包括：（1）在六个调查领域之一，即开发设备， 用于癌症诊断、癌症生物标志物发现和验证、癌症生物学、癌症分子成像， 癌症的临床影像学和癌症生物信息学;（2）专门设计的课堂课程， 癌症早期检测领域的概念框架;（3）科学研究研讨会;（4） 全面的专业发展组成部分，包括职业讲座，学生演示， 关于沟通技巧和职业机会的讲习班;以及（5）参加道德论坛。关键 该计划的一个方面是为参与者提供进行导师指导研究的机会， 发展对假设驱动研究的理解，对结果进行批判性解释和分析， 数据该教育研究计划的长期目标是支持不断增长的专业需求 这些研究人员将对迅速扩大的癌症早期检测领域产生重大影响。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection (“Canary Center”) is a world-class facility with the mission to foster interdisciplinary research leading to the development of blood tests and molecular imaging approaches to detect and localize early cancers by integrating research in in vivo and in vitro diagnostics to deliver these tests. Embedded within this mission is the need to formally present new and innovative approaches to scientific communities at all levels. The Canary Cancer Research Education Summer Training (Canary CREST) Program fulfills an educational mission by introducing students to research education and new career paths. The overall goal of the program is to train a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists in early cancer detection by offering an integrative hands-on research experience at an early stage of their scientific education. The Canary CREST Program is a 10-week instructional summer program for 25 undergraduate students in the biological, engineering, mathematical, or physical sciences, and offers a structured research experience with a focus on early cancer detection. The program will be administered by the Canary Center and brings together a multidisciplinary group of 28 faculty whose research groups are dedicated to the field of early cancer detection using experimental and computational approaches in biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, molecular imaging, and cancer biology. Proposed Canary CREST Program activities include: (1) Mentor-directed research in one of six investigative areas, namely, development of devices for cancer diagnostics, cancer biomarker discovery and validation, cancer biology, molecular imaging of cancer, clinical imaging of cancer, and cancer bioinformatics; (2) Specially-designed classroom sessions to provide a conceptual framework of the field of early cancer detection; (3) Seminars in scientific research; (4) A comprehensive professional development component that includes career talks, student presentations, workshops on communication skills and career opportunities; and (5) Participation in an Ethics Forum. The key aspect of this program is to offer participants the opportunity to conduct mentor-directed research while developing an understanding of hypothesis-driven studies with critical interpretation of results and analysis of data. The long-term objective of this educational research program is to support the growing need of specialized researchers who will have a significant impact in the rapidly-expanding area of cancer early detection.