Core--Training/Career development

拟议的博士后烟草研究培训计划建立在现有的、非常成功的肿瘤生物学跨学科博士培训计划、药理学博士前和博士后培训计划以及肿瘤生物学培训计划的新的同行评审和资助的癌症预防和控制培训部分的基础上。新培训计划的重点将是从拥有医学博士、医学博士/博士学位或博士学位的合格申请者中招募大量优秀的多学科受训人员，为他们在烟草控制领域进行基于患者和人群的翻译研究做好准备。每名学员将在培训计划中获得为期两年的支持。受训者将根据他们的博士前研究、课程工作和/或当前的研究兴趣来选择主要的研究导师。将为每个学员指派共同导师，以确保导师之间的多学科合作。具体目标是：1.每年招募和挑选两名博士后实习生参加跨学科的烟草研究博士后项目，特别注意招募女性和少数民族。2.整合和扩大GUMC的现有培训方案，为博士后学员创建教育课程，特别强调烟草使用的生物行为基础(TTURC)的主题。3.为博士后实习生提供出色的指导经验，包括参与研究项目，以及酌情参与临床和实验室活动。4.通过提交试验项目和研究资助申请，促进博士后学员的职业发展。培训包括伦巴迪癌症中心(LCC)癌症预防和控制和癌症遗传学项目的多学科教员，以及药理学系、乔治敦格雷斯·多尼烟草与健康研究所和国家卫生研究院。这一新的培训计划将由隆巴迪癌症中心和控制研究计划副主任乔恩·科纳博士、药理学教授肯尼斯·凯勒博士和精神病学助理教授珍妮特·奥德兰博士共同领导。

The proposed post-doctoral tobacco research training program builds on an existing, highly successful Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Tumor Biology, predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs in Pharmacology, and a newly peer-reviewed and funded Cancer Prevention and control training component of the Tumor Biology Training Program. A focus of the new training program will be to recruit trainees from a consistently large, outstanding, and multi-disciplinary pool of qualified applicants with the M.D., M.D./Ph.D. or Ph.D. degrees in order to prepare them for patient- and population-based translational research in tobacco control. Each trainee will be supported for two years in the training program. The trainees will select a primary research mentor, based on their predoctoral research, course work and/or current research interests. Co-mentors will be assigned to each trainee to insure multi-disciplinary collaborations among mentors. The specific aims are: 1. To recruit and select two post-doctoral trainees per year for a transdisciplinary tobacco research post-doctoral program, with particular attention paid to recruiting women and minorities. 2. To integrate and expand existing training programs at GUMC to create an educational curriculum for post-doctoral trainees, with particular emphasis on the theme of the TTURC (bio-behavioral basis of tobacco use). 3. To provide outstanding mentoring experiences for post-doctoral trainees, including involvement on research projects, as well as clinical and laboratory activities as appropriate. 4. To facilitate the career development of post-doctoral trainees through submission of pilot project and research grant applications. The training integrates multi-disciplinary faculty from the Lombardi Cancer Center (LCC) Programs in Cancer Prevention and Control and Cancer Genetics, as well as the Department of Pharmacology and the Georgetown Grace Dorney Institute on Tobacco and Health, and the National Institutes of Health. This new training program initiative will be co-led by Dr. Jon Kerner, Associate Director of the Lombardi Cancer Center and Control Research Program, Dr. Kenneth Keller, Professor of Pharmacology, and Dr. Janet Audrain, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.