Pediatric Oncology Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：贝勒医学院德克萨斯儿童癌症中心的提案旨在建立一个新颖的，为期三年的儿科肿瘤研究培训（PORT）计划，为选择以实验室为基础的儿科癌症研究事业的优秀儿科血液肿瘤学研究员提供培训。开发该项目的基本原理是基于标准的儿科血液学肿瘤学奖学金项目不能为有兴趣成为实验室内科科学家的学员提供足够的实验室研究培训经验的前提。PORT项目是专门为解决这一问题而设计的，它为精心挑选的受训者提供重点指导的研究和教学项目，最终使他们成为成功的、独立资助的实验室研究人员。该项目利用了德克萨斯儿童癌症中心（TCCC）、德克萨斯儿童医院（TCH）、贝勒医学院（BCM）、BCM癌症中心（BCMCC）、儿科和24名参与导师的5个部门的重要优势和资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal from the Texas Children's Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine seeks to establish a novel, three-year Pediatric Oncology Research Training (PORT) Program for outstanding pediatric hematology-oncology fellows who have chosen to pursue a laboratory-based pediatric cancer research career. The rationale for developing this program is based on the premise that standard Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship programs do not provide an adequate laboratory research training experience for trainees interested in becoming laboratory-based physician-scientists. The PORT program has been specifically designed to address this issue by providing its highly selected trainees with a focused mentored research and didactic program that will ultimately enable them to become successful, independently funded, laboratory investigators. The program utilizes the significant strengths and resources of the Texas Children's Cancer Center (TCCC), Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), the BCM Cancer Center (BCMCC), the Department of Pediatrics, and the 5 Departments of the 24 participating mentors. The PORT program will provide the up to 6 postdoctoral trainees (two per year) the opportunity to choose a laboratory research experience in either basic research or translational research. The proposed training program has several unique features. First, trainees enter the program following a comprehensive year of clinical training where, because of the size and breadth of the program, they have had in-depth exposure to the major clinical and scientific challenges in the field. This provides them with a strong basis from which to choose their particular field of research and their specific mentor. Second, the program is comprised of a superb group of research mentors with vast teaching and training experience and a sincere commitment to training young physician scientists. Third, the proposed program is a highly structured one that has many elements similar to those characteristic of PhD graduate training programs including a structured didactic program with graduate level courses, seminars, and conferences and an individual Scholarship Oversight Committee that monitors the progress of each trainee. Fourth, trainees participate in research retreats and national conferences and workshops and attend a novel leadership-training seminar designed to provide them with the skills needed to become leaders in the field.