Integrating Aging and Cancer Research

描述：(申请人描述)这是一份规划与发展(P20)拨款提案，旨在将癌症与老龄化发展计划(CAP)添加到爱荷华大学霍尔顿综合癌症中心(HCCC)的研究活动中。虽然所有活动都将在HCCC内进行，但这是该中心与UI老龄中心共同努力的产物，也是两个中心完善的战略规划过程的结果。在这一进程的基础上，选定了三个以现有机构实力和需求为基础的科学专题，以便与履约协助方案一起制定：1)衰老与癌症生物学[自由基生物学]；2)共病[共病对临床癌症结局的影响]；3)治疗疗效和耐受性[老年癌症患者的化疗药理学]。资金将用于战略规划进程确定的两个核心设施：1)数据库核心，用于为老年癌症患者的共同发病率和其他流行病学调查的原始研究提供保健分析数据；以及2)扩大药效和动力学研究的分析实验室能力。此外，我们建议提供一些资金，协助与选定主题有关的两个有针对性的教师招聘：医疗服务流行病学(共发病主题)和内科肿瘤学/药理学(癌症治疗主题)。其余活动包括项目管理，包括持续的规划和评估活动，以及提供不同规模的试点赠款，以促进选定开发领域的研究。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) This is a planning and development (P20) grant proposal to add a Developing Program in Cancer and Aging (CAP) to the research activities of the University of Iowa (UI) Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC). While all activities will take place within the HCCC, this is the product of a joint effort of that center with the UI Center on Aging, and results from a well-established strategic planning process from both centers. Based on that process, three scientific themes that build on existing institutional strength and needs have been chosen for development with the CAP: 1) Biology of aging and cancer [free radical biology]; 2) Co-morbidity [Effects of co-morbidity on clinical cancer outcomes]; and 3) Treatment efficacy and tolerance [chemotherapy pharmacology in older cancer patients]. Funds will be devoted to two core facilities identified by the strategic planning process: 1) a database core for providing health care analytical data for original studies of co-morbidity and other epidemiological investigations of older cancer patients; and 2) expanding analytical laboratory capacity for pharmaco-dynamic and -kinetic studies. In addition, we propose providing some funds for assisting in two targeted faculty recruitments related to chosen themes: in health services epidemiology (co-morbidity theme) and medical oncology/pharmacology (cancer therapeutics theme). Remaining activities include program administration, including ongoing planning and evaluation activities, and provision of variously sized pilot grants to promote research in the areas selected for development.