UDC and LCC Partners in Cancer Prevention and Control

UDC 和 LCC 在癌症预防和控制方面的合作伙伴

• 批准号: 7283596
• 负责人: Carolyn Evans Cousin
• 金额: $ 36.55万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7283596
• 关键词: African American; Area; Cancer Biology; Cancer Center; Cancer Control; Cancer Control Research; Cancer Death Rates; Clinical Trials; Collaborations; Data; Development; District of Columbia; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Enrollment; Evaluation; Faculty; Funding; Future; Goals; Grant; Institution; Lead; Low income; Marketing; Methods; Minority; Outcome; Palliative Care; Peer Review; Pilot Projects; Pregnant Women; Prevention; Publications; Range; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Structure; Students; Techniques; Testing; Tobacco Industry; Universities; Work; Writing; base; cancer prevention; career; cigarette smoking; medical schools; nutrition; programs; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and the Lombardi Cancer Center (LCC) are proposing to establish a planning U56 funded Partnership that will build upon their successes in a currently funded P20 Partnership. The U56-funded Partnership will focus exclusively on Cancer Prevention and Control. This is a highly relevant focus for the District of Columbia (DC), which has among the higher cancer death rates in the nation. The specific aims are: (1) to establish a Planning and Evaluation Core that will identify priorities, evaluate progress and determine success; (2) to establish a Developmental Core that will begin with 4 pilot projects and new faculty recruits and; (3) to establish a LCC and UDC jointly taught UDC masters program in Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control. The goal of this partnership is to allow the investigators to develop mutually beneficial collaborations worthy of new peer-reviewed funding. Thus, this U56 mechanism is focused on obtaining pilot data that will allow us to test future hypotheses, rather than answer current research questions that would lead to publications. In the first two years, the pilot projects are focused on the structure of data needed to obtain grants such as R01's, while it is anticipated that in the later years we will focus on data to obtain a U54 Partnership grant. The four pilot projects span the range of cancer control. These include: 1) a nutrition project involving low-income pregnant women; 2) use of counter-marketing techniques for prevention of cigarette smoking by packaging data from tobacco industry documents targeting African Americans; 3) enhancing enrollment for minorities in clinical trials, and; 4) identifying methods to integrate palliative care for minorities in medical school curricula. We also will establish a jointly conducted masters program in Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control, emphasizing the need for basis sciences and cancer control for more effective cancer control research, and stimulating minority students to pursue research careers. This U56 Partnership is feasible and the outcomes are achievable because with the P20 funding we have found that our faculty can work together on both research and teaching projects. We have identified that the strengths and limitations of each institution are most complementary in the area of cancer prevention and control. Each institution has expressed in writing a commitment to insure the success of the Partnership.

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