Howard/Hopkins Cancer Center Partnership

霍华德大学癌症中心（HUCC）和约翰霍普金斯综合癌症中心（JHCCC）所服务的地区，马里兰州和哥伦比亚特区，50多年来一直是美国癌症死亡率最高的地区之一。这些地区的少数族裔居民受到癌症的影响尤为严重，癌症已成为巴尔的摩、马里兰州和华盛顿特区非洲裔美国人发病和死亡的主要原因。为了解决这一问题，美国癌症中心和美国癌症中心联合开展了一项合作，以增加与癌症有关的筛查诊断、预防、治疗和支持性护理方面的富有成效的研究，特别关注非洲裔美国人的癌症。自1999年9月以来，美国国家癌症研究所（NCI）为JHCCC核心拨款提供了补充资金，HUCC/JHCCC合作伙伴关系开始于两所机构的教师组成的针对高优先领域的小组的一系列合作努力。到目前为止，在规划阶段取得的成功，以及在几个领域的合作研究进展，包括前列腺癌、胃肠道癌和乳腺癌，促使提交这笔赠款，试图获得资金，以进一步扩大伙伴关系活动。这项拨款提案的主要目的是继续发展huc和JHCCC之间的可持续伙伴关系，以加强两所机构的研究，培训，教育和外展任务。为实现这一目标，美国癌症中心与JHCCC的伙伴关系将致力于在美国癌症中心建立针对非洲裔美国人癌症的研究师资队伍和科学项目，加强涉及非洲裔美国人的JHCCC基于人群的癌症研究，增加美国癌症中心非洲裔美国人职业研究人员的研究培训和职业发展机会，并改善美国癌症中心以非洲裔美国人职业发病率和死亡率为重点的教育和推广项目。该提案寻求支持3个研究项目，2个试点研究项目，1个试点教育项目和huc的核心基础设施，以及进一步规划和发展huc /JHCCC伙伴关系的额外资金。在5年的时间里，随着这些最初的研究和教育活动取得进展，以争取独立的资金，将确定和支持新的发展优先项目、计划和资源。

The regions served by the Howard University Cancer Center (HUCC) and Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Cancer Center (JHCCC), Maryland and the District of Columbia, have had among the highest cancer death rates in the United States for more than fifty years. Minority residents of these regions have been disproportionately affected by cancer, and cancer has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality for African-Americans in both Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. To address this problem, HUCC and JHCCC have embarked on a partnership to increase productive research in screening diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and supportive care as it relates to cancer, with a special focus on cancer in African-Americans. The HUCC/JHCCC partnership, which began as a series of collaborative efforts involving faculty from each institution organized into groups targeting high priority areas, has been supported since September of 1999 by supplemental funds for the JHCCC core grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The success realized thus far during the planning phases of the HUCC/JHCCC partnership, with c9ollaborative research progress in several areas, including prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and breast cancer, has prompted the submission of this grant in an attempt to secure funds to further augment partnership activities. The major aim of this grant proposal is to continue the development of a sustainable partnership between HUCC and JHCCC that enhances the research, training, education, and outreach missions of both institutions. To accomplish this goal, the HUCC/JHCCC partnership will work to build the research faculty and scientific programs at HUCC directed at cancer in African-Americans, to enhance population-based cancer studies at JHCCC involving African-Americans, to increase opportunities for research training and career development of African-American career researchers at HUCC, and to improve education and outreach programs at JHCCC focused on career morbidity and mortality among African- Americans. The proposal seeks support for 3 research projects, 2 pilot research proj4ects, 1 pilot educational program, and core infrastructure at HUCC, along with additional funds for further planning and development of the HUCC/JHCCC partnership. Over the 5 years of support requested for the HUCC/JHCCC partnership, as these initial research and educational activities progress to compete for independent funding, new projects, programs, and resources of high priority for development will be identified and supported.