Cooperative Core Lab and Clinical Nutrition Research

描述（由申请人提供） 本临床营养研究单位（CNRU）的目标是开发一个 统一和连贯的癌症预防营养方案， 通过推进多学科基础和临床研究， 对医学生进行营养和癌症预防培训， 医生和其他卫生专业人员，改善临床护理， 癌症患者，特别是预防方面，在我们的医疗中心， 在一般人群中，并提供准确的信息， 卫生专业人员和公众。的中心焦点 我们的合作，跨机构的计划仍然是营养和癌症， 防治的攻坚临床营养研究组代表 中央机制，协调这六个重点的主要努力 参与机构：1）美国健康基金会; 2）纪念 斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心; 3）康奈尔大学威尔医学院- 纽约长老会医院; 4）洛克菲勒大学; 5）斯特朗 癌症预防中心;和6）韦斯特切斯特医疗中心-新约克 医学院 我们的计划包括CNRU的四个必要组成部分：（1）研究 （2）基础实验室研究;（3） 研究培训（资金来自其他来源）;（4）共用设施 和研究服务，以及三个鼓励的组成部分;（5） 为医学生、医院工作人员、执业医生提供的教育计划 （6）研究 营养支助服务的组成部分;以及（7）公共信息 （四）其他来源的资金（资金来源）。实现的方法 这些目标包括为行政核心提供持续的支持 和三个CNRU核心实验室：（a）生物统计学，（B）免疫学，和 致癌作用和营养以及建立两个拟议的新核心实验室（e） 类维生素A分析和（f）癌症易感性的生物标志物。资金 每年四项试点研究使营养和癌症的新想法成为可能 预防和控制将由新的和现有的调查人员进行测试; 新研究者基金为有前途的年轻科学家提供支持。 我们的丰富计划提供了广泛的讲座，会议和 鼓励科学家相互交流并使他们了解最新情况的会议 关于癌症预防和控制领域的进展。整体 CNRU的科学和行政进展由外部评估 和内部咨询委员会，他们与项目主任协商， 行政核心。 迄今为止，全国抵抗联盟取得的主要成就包括： 在基础和临床两个方面都取得了重大的方法学和概念上的进步 与癌症预防和控制有关的营养研究， 保健专业人员对营养重要性的认识， 为医学生开设第一门营养学必修课. 康奈尔大学威尔医学院。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The objective of this Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU) is to develop a unified and coherent program in nutrition in relation to cancer prevention and control, by advancing multidisciplinary basic and clinical research, upgrading the training in nutrition and cancer prevention for medical students, physicians and other health professionals, improving the clinical care of cancer patients, particularly preventive aspects, at our medical centers and in the population in general, and providing accurate information on this subject to health professional and the general public. The central focus of our collaborative, inter-institutional program remains nutrition and cancer prevention and control. The Clinical Nutrition Research Unit represents the central mechanism for coordinating the major efforts on this focus of the six participating institutions: 1) The American Health Foundation; 2) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 3) Weill Medical College of Cornell University- New York Presbyterian Hospital; 4) The Rockefeller University; 5) The Strang Cancer Prevention Center; and 6) The Westchester Medical Center-New York Medical College. Our program comprises the four required components of a CNRU: (1) Research with human subjects and populations; (2) Basic laboratory Investigations; (3) Research training (funds derived from other sources); (4) Shared facilities and research services, as well as the three encouraged components; (5) Education programs for medical students, house staff, practicing physicians and allied health personnel (funds derived from other sources); (6) Research components of nutritional support services; and (7) Public information activities (funds derived from other sources). The methods for achieving these goals include providing continuing support for the Administrative Core and three CNRU Core Laboratories: (a) Biostatistics, (b) Immunology, and Carcinogenesis and Nutrition and establishing two proposed new Core Labs (e) Retinoids Analysis and (f) Biomarkers for Cancer Susceptibility. Funds for four pilot studies per year enable novel ideas in nutrition and cancer prevention and control to be tested by both new and established investigators; funds for a New Investigator provide support for a promising junior scientist. Our enrichment program provides a wide range of lectures, conferences and meetings to stimulate interactions among scientists and to keep them current on advancements in the field of cancer prevention and control. The overall scientific and administrative progress of the CNRU is evaluated by External and Internal Advisory Committees, who consult with the program director and the Administrative Core. Highlights of accomplishments made possible by the CNRU to date consist of significant methodological and conceptual advances in both basic and clinical research in nutrition in relation to cancer prevention and control, increasing awareness of the importance of nutrition among health professionals and developing the first required teaching of nutrition for medical students at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.