Cancer Research - Scholarship and Training Experience's in Population Sciences" (C-STEPS)

项目总结/摘要 作为一个国家，我们在癌症预防和控制方面取得了巨大进展。然而，这些进步 并没有在整个社会中平均积累。人口健康、遗传筛查和精确度的新方向 医学可能有希望通过风险识别和疾病预防来促进健康公平， 潜在地改变癌症发病率和死亡率。站在科学发现的最前沿， 翻译，我们需要更多，更好地准备，STEM-H（科学，技术，工程，数学， 健康）专业人员在癌症和健康为重点的职业培训。该计划的长期目标是 通过提供专业和体验式课程，增加生物医学和行为研究人员 强调团队导向的人口科学。为了实现这一目标， 一项倡议是实施癌症研究教育计划，“癌症研究-奖学金和培训 人口科学经验”。该计划旨在促进和支持 本科生在他们的STEM-H领域完成学位，并促进他们的选择，和 申请，研究生或专业学校，同时鼓励他们在研究生涯的兴趣。C级台阶， 为期10周的夏季癌症研究体验计划，包括4个综合部分：1）以调查为基础的 研究研讨会，2）以技能为基础，学生量身定制，指导研究经验，3）职业发展 （4）团队建设活动。我们将在全国范围内招募10名本科生， C步我们将征求有意在以下学校攻读研究生或专业教育的学生的申请： STEM-H学科。学生将参加全日制从5月中旬到8月，由教师和 具有癌症控制和人口科学专业知识的研究导师（即，癌症风险预测和风险 减少，癌症筛查，癌症结果和存活率）。C-STEPS建立在 新墨西哥州大学综合癌症中心。具体目标是：（1）提供基础 通过基于调查的研究研讨会，了解当前和新兴的癌症创新 预防和控制以及通过团队建设活动进行协作团队科学。2)提供基于技能的 指导研究经验。3)提供具体的机会，实施STEM-H职业规划， 与教师和“同行”（UNM STEM Gateway）合作，并通过个性化辅导 本科生和返回C-STEPS校友在2-5年）和“近同行”（研究生，博士后 研究员）;包括编制个人发展计划，以促进职业发展。C-STEPS将 增加攻读研究生或专业学校的本科生人数，并最终进行研究 职业生涯，从而解决了训练有素的STEM-H专业人员在癌症和健康的国家优先事项 专注的职业

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT As a nation, we have made tremendous advances in cancer prevention and control. However, these advances have not accrued evenly across society. New directions in population health, genetic screening and precision medicine may hold promise to promote health equity through risk identification and disease preemption, leading to potentially transforming cancer morbidity and mortality. To be at this cutting edge of scientific discovery and translation, we require more, and better prepared, STEM-H (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health) professionals trained in cancer and health focused careers. The long-term goal of this program is to increase the biomedical and behavioral research workforce by providing specialized and experiential curricula that highlights team-oriented population sciences. In order to contribute to this goal, the overall objective of this initiative is to implement a cancer research education program, “Cancer Research—Scholarship and Training Experiences in Population Sciences” (C-STEPS). This program is designed to facilitate and support undergraduate students in their completion of a degree in a STEM-H field and to facilitate their selection of, and application to, graduate or professional schools, while encouraging their interests in research careers. C-STEPS, a 10-week summer cancer research experiences program, consists of 4 integrated components: 1) inquiry-based research seminars, 2) skills-based, student-tailored, mentored research experiences, 3) development of career plans, and 4) team-building activities. We will recruit cohorts of 10 undergraduates nationally for participation in C-STEPS. We will solicit applications from students intending to pursue graduate or professional education in STEM-H disciplines. Students will participate full-time from mid-May through August, guided by faculty and research mentors with expertise in cancer control and population sciences (i.e., cancer risk prediction and risk reduction, cancer screening, cancer outcomes, and survivorship). C-STEPS builds on existing resources at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. Specific aims are to: 1) Provide foundational understanding, through inquiry-based research seminars, of current and emerging innovations in cancer prevention and control and of collaborative team science through team-building activities. 2) Provide skills-based mentored research experiences. 3) Provide specific opportunities to implement STEM-H career planning in collaboration with and through personalized coaching from faculty, and “peers” (UNM STEM Gateway undergraduates and returning C-STEPS alumni in Years 2-5) and “near-peers” (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows); including preparation of individual development plans, which foster career development. C-STEPS will increase the number of undergraduates pursuing graduate or professional schools, and ultimately research careers thereby addressing a national priority for well-trained STEM-H professionals in cancer and health focused careers.