Regional Cancer Center Consortium Annual Meetings

区域癌症中心联盟年会

• 批准号: 7058489
• 负责人: ELIZABETH A REPASKY
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-05 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7058489
• 关键词: biotherapeutic agent; meeting /conference /symposium; neoplasm /cancer therapy; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to provide partial meeting support for the annual meetings of the "Regional Cancer Center Consortium." The next annual meeting is being held Feb. 16-18th, 2006 at the Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and subsequent meetings will rotate to other member Institutions. The Regional Cancer Center Consortium is composed of a group of laboratory and clinical investigators from Comprehensive and Regional Cancer Centers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, and Michigan. The success of our prior meetings (held annually for the past 8 years) and the enthusiasm that has been generated for continuing and improving this effort has now prompted us to seek NCI support. Support for the next five years will greatly help us to develop and sustain a unique, high quality scientific program focused around important, timely themes concerning novel therapies and translational research. Such a program will 1) enhance regional clinical and scientific collaborations among near-by cancer centers and 2) provide a low cost and easily accessible, yet state-of- the-art educational opportunity for researchers, clinicians, industry representatives, students/ fellows and patients. NCI funding will be used specifically to augment meeting planning at an early stage for the next several years and to provide opportunities for graduate/medical students and laboratory/clinical fellows to attend the meeting (through travel awards) and to help defray the costs associated with travel of invited experts from outside the Consortium's region and with educational materials (notebooks/slide handouts) used for the meeting. Of great importance to the co-organizers of this Consortium is the inclusion of underrepresented minorities and women in all stages of meeting development, as speakers and as coorganizers, and making sure that the meetings are accessible to all persons, including those with disabilities. In summary, NCI funding for this annual meeting can help to provide for the long-term stability of an important and unique educational opportunity for both cancer researchers and care providers in this region of the country (which includes both underserved rural and urban communities) and contribute greatly toward the NCI's "Roadmap" goal of increased collaboration among regional and comprehensive cancer centers. This consortium has great potential for helping members of this region's cancer centers to network, increase collaborative efforts and pilot innovative approaches in the therapy of cancer, particularly new biological or immunological approaches, which will ultimately benefit patient care and the timely completion of new clinical trials.

描述（由申请人提供）：申请资金用于为“区域癌症中心联盟”年度会议提供部分会议支持。下一届年会将于2006年2月16日至18日在匹兹堡大学医学中心的希尔曼癌症中心举行，随后的会议将轮流在其他成员机构举行。区域癌症中心联盟由一组来自宾夕法尼亚州、西弗吉尼亚州、俄亥俄州、纽约州和密歇根州综合和区域癌症中心的实验室和临床研究人员组成。我们之前的会议（过去8年每年举行一次）的成功，以及对继续和改进这一努力所产生的热情，促使我们现在寻求NCI的支持。对未来五年的支持将极大地帮助我们发展和维持一个独特的、高质量的科学项目，重点关注有关新疗法和转化研究的重要、及时的主题。该项目将1)加强附近癌症中心之间的区域临床和科学合作；2)为研究人员、临床医生、行业代表、学生/研究员和患者提供低成本、便捷的、最先进的教育机会。