RTOG Workshop for Translational Research

2001年2月，将在佛罗里达州坦帕市举行的RTOG全国会议上举行第一次RTOG转化研究研讨会。RTOG的转化研究计划（TRP）将来自不同地点和模式委员会的成员联合起来，致力于将实验室研究转化为临床试验。目前，TRP每年在半年度RTOG会议上赞助两次主题演讲。为了更及时地展示最前沿的研究成果，TRP认为有必要每隔一年举办一次全面的基础科学研讨会来增加这些展示。年轻和有成就的科学家将被邀请参加，因为他们的项目有可能发展成为RTOG执行的国家议定书的富有成效的补充。其他科学家的申请将被积极招募，并根据他们推进RTOG任务的潜力进行选择。将特别努力鼓励与RTOG有关的基于多样性的科学问题。预计有200名或更多的RTOG会议参与者将在他们的议程中增加这一天，会议也将由其他肿瘤学专业人士参加。基础研究人员将被邀请参加为期三天的会议的临床部分，以加强专业合作并向基础科学家介绍临床试验开发的过程。预计2001年会议的成功，计划举办两年一次的研讨会，以配合未来冬季RTOG会议。此拨款申请是为二零零一年、二零零三年及二零零五年举办的首三个工作坊提供部分资助。

In February 2001, the first RTOG Workshop on Translational Research will be held at the RTOG national meeting in Tampa, Florida. The Translational Research Program (TRP) of the RTOG combines the members from various site and modality committees to work on the translation of laboratory research into clinical trials. Currently, the TRP sponsors keynote presentations twice a year at the semi-annual RTOG meetings. Toward the goal of presenting more timely, cutting edge research, the TRP sees the need to augment these presentations with a comprehensive basic science symposium every other year. Young and established scientists would be invited to participate based on the potential of their project to develop into productive additions to national protocols performed by the RTOG. Applications from other scientists will be actively recruited and selected based on their potential to advance the missions of the RTOG. Efforts specifically will be made to encourage diversity-based scientific questions as they pertain to the RTOG. It is expected that two hundred or more RTOG meeting participants will add this extra day to their agenda and that the conference will be attended by other oncology professionals as well. Basic researchers will be invited to participate in the clinical component of the three day meeting in order to strengthen professional collaborations and to introduce basic scientists to the process of clinical trial development. Anticipating the success of the 2001 meeting, a biennial workshop is planned to correspond with the winter RTOG meeting in the future. This grant application is for partial support of the first three workshops to be held in 2001, 2003, and 2005.