HU-UPCI Cancer Education/Career Development Partnership

描述(由申请人提供) 尽管非洲裔美国人的癌症负担过重，但非洲裔美国人的癌症研究人员仍然相对匮乏；这一趋势在匹兹堡大学癌症研究所(UPCI)以及全国许多癌症中心都很明显。汉普顿大学(HU)是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，位于弗吉尼亚州汉普顿，有600多名学生主修生物科学，但课程中几乎没有强调癌症生物学。UPCI和汉普顿之间的合作将结合两所机构的优势，在汉普顿的课程中建立癌症生物学教学和实验室工作，促进HU学生深入接触UPCI的教职员工和项目，发展汉普顿大学癌症生物学的核心教员专业知识，并加强UPCI对少数族裔人口的可及性。为了实现这些目标，这一伙伴关系将实现以下具体目标： (1)计划和实施合作课程，使HU学生能够设计和进行与癌症有关的实验，了解癌症生物学的基本概念，并对癌症领域的主要文献进行评论。这将需要针对所有HU生物学本科生的项目，以及建立癌症研究员轨道，其中将包括UPCI癌症研究员的夏季研究轮换。(2)增加UPCI的资源，以便有效地与宾夕法尼亚州西部的少数族裔互动并就癌症进行教育。这将包括一个联合项目，升级UPCI网站，以优化其内容，方便非裔美国人访问。(3)优化教师成功教授癌症生物学和承担癌症相关项目的能力。UPCI将制定定制的课程，以提高HU暑期访问学院教授癌症生物学、开发实验和教学模式以及在HU创建综合癌症课程的技能。这两个机构的教师将受益于联合课程开发、创造性远程教学模式的开发、拨款撰写研讨会和生物信息学软件培训方面的专业知识增加。通过这些目标，汉普顿大学和威斯康星大学之间的伙伴关系将建立一系列创新项目，旨在增加胡舒立大学的癌症研究培训和教育机会，并加强威斯康星大学的教育倡议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Despite an excess cancer burden in the African-American population, there remains a relative paucity of African American cancer researchers; a trend that is evident at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) in addition to many cancer centers nationwide. Hampton University (HU) is a historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia with over 600 students majoring in the Biological Sciences, yet there has been little emphasis in the curriculum on cancer biology. A partnership between UPCI and Hampton will combine the strengths of both institutions to establish cancer biology teaching and laboratory work in the Hampton curriculum, to facilitate an intensive exposure of HU students to UPCI faculty and programs, to develop core faculty expertise in cancer biology at Hampton and to enhance UPCI accessibility to minority populations. In order to accomplish these goals, this partnership will realize the following specific aims: (1) To plan and implement a cooperative curriculum that will enable HU students to design and conduct experiments related to cancer, to understand basic concepts of cancer biology, and to critique primary literature in the cancer field. This will entail projects directed at all HU biology undergraduates as well as the establishment of a Cancer Fellows track, which will include summer research rotations by Cancer Fellows at UPCI. (2) To augment resources at UPCI to effectively interact with and educate minorities in Western Pennsylvania about cancer. This will include a joint project to upgrade the UPCI website to optimize its content and facilitate accessibility by African-Americans. (3) Optimize the ability of faculty to successfully teach cancer biology and to undertake cancer-related projects. A customized curricula will be developed at UPCI to enhance the skills of HU summer Visiting Faculty in teaching cancer biology, developing experimental and didactic teaching models, and creating an integrated cancer curriculum at HU. Faculty from both institutions will benefit from increased expertise in joint curriculum development, development of creative long distance teaching models, grant writing workshops and bioinformatics software training. Through these aims the partnership between Hampton University and UPCI will establish a number of innovative programs designed to augment cancer research training and education opportunities at HU, and to enhance educational initiatives at UPCI.