Cooperative Core Lab and Clinical Nutrition Research

描述(由申请人提供) 这个临床营养研究单位(CNRU)的目标是开发一种 与癌症预防和营养有关的统一和连贯的计划 控制，通过推进多学科基础和临床研究，升级 医学生的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，在我们的医疗中心和 ，并提供有关这方面的准确信息 受制于健康专业人士和普通大众。的中心焦点 我们的协作、跨机构计划仍然是营养和癌症 防控。临床营养研究单位代表 协调围绕这六个重点的主要努力的中央机制 参与机构：1)美国健康基金会；2)纪念馆 康奈尔大学威尔医学院斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心； 纽约长老会医院；4)洛克菲勒大学；5)奇特 癌症预防中心；以及6)纽约威彻斯特医疗中心 医学院。 我们的计划包括CNRU的四个必要组成部分：(1)研究 与人类受试者和人群；(2)基础实验室调查；(3) 研究培训(资金来自其他来源)；(4)共享设施 和研究服务，以及鼓励的三个组成部分；(5) 为医学生、家庭工作人员、执业医生提供的教育计划 和专职保健人员(资金来自其他来源)；(6)研究 营养支助服务的组成部分；和(7)公共信息 活动(从其他来源获得的资金)。实现这些目标的方法 这些目标包括为行政核心提供持续支持 和三个CNRU核心实验室：(A)生物统计学，(B)免疫学，和 致癌与营养与建立两个新的核心实验室(五) 维甲酸分析和(F)癌症易感性的生物标志物。资金用于 每年四项试验性研究为营养和癌症提供新的想法 预防和控制将由新的和现有的调查人员进行测试； 为一名新研究员提供资金，为一名有前途的初级科学家提供支持。 我们的丰富课程提供了广泛的讲座、会议和 促进科学家之间的互动并使其保持最新的会议 关于癌症预防和控制领域的进展。整体而言 CNRU的科技和管理进步由外部评估 和内部咨询委员会，他们与计划主任和 管理核心。 到目前为止，CNRU取得的成就要点包括 基础和临床方面的重大方法学和概念性进展 与癌症预防和控制有关的营养研究，不断增加 卫生专业人员对营养重要性的认识和 开展首期医学生营养学必修课教学 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.