POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY

描述（申请人描述）： 儿科肿瘤学奖学金 科罗拉多大学健康科学中心（UCHSC）的项目， 丹佛儿童医院，拥有超过25年的杰出历史 年 1993年，大量新的资源专门用于发展 这一计划，导致建立骨髓移植 单位，神经肿瘤学服务，和一个核心小组的基础科学家。 在 此外，研究金方案得到扩大，研究员获得了 有机会在UCHSC系统的任何实验室进行研究。 目前，23个培训学院代表了广泛的科学 包括细胞周期控制和信号传导，转录 调控和剪接，病毒学和免疫学。 这些不同的学科 和方法是统一的使用分子方法来解决 基本的生物学问题，并通过其适用性的问题， 肿瘤学研究 由于临床经验的广泛性， 儿童医院良好的临床声誉，以及新的研究 自1993年以来， 提高质量和奉献精神的学术生涯。 最小 奖学金为期三年，第一年专门用于临床 训练 目前，该方案有10名研究员，他们都有 以前完成了他们的儿科住院医师，与9在研究培训 在第一个临床研究年之后。 该提案寻求资金， 那些选择从事儿科肿瘤学相关研究的研究员， 奖学金的第二年和第三年。 虽然是一个新的应用程序， 历史和最近的发展都标志着这一培训计划是一个 全国最好的。 事实上，自1982年以来，该方案的25名研究员中有17名 进入了学术医学生涯。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Description): The Pediatric Oncology Fellowship Program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) and Denver Children's Hospital, has a distinguished history spanning over 25 years. In 1993, substantial new resources were dedicated to the development of this Program, leading to the establishment of a Bone Marrow Transplant unit, Neuro-oncology service, and a core group of basic scientists. In addition, the fellowship program was expanded and fellows were given the opportunity to perform research in any laboratory in the UCHSC system. P r esently 23 Training Faculty represent a broad range of scientific disciplines including cell cycle control and signaling, transcriptional regulation and splicing, virology, and immunology. These diverse disciplines and approaches are unified by use of molecular approaches to address fundamental biological questions, and by their applicability to problems in oncology research. Because of the breadth of the clinical experience, the fine clinical reputation of the Children's Hospital, and the new research opportunities available, fellowship candidates since 1993 have consistently increased in quality and dedication to an academic career. The minimal fellowship duration is three years, with the first year exclusively clinical training. Currently there are 10 fellows in the Program, all of whom have previously completed their Pediatric residencies, with 9 in research training beyond their first clinical fellowship year. This proposal seeks funding for those fellows who elect to pursue research related to Pediatric Oncology in the second and third years of the fellowship. Although a new application, both history and recent developments mark this training program as one of the best in the nation. Indeed since 1982, 17 of 25 fellows from this Program have entered academic medicine careers.