Career Development Program

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Program Description 1. Describe the process for selecting candidates and how the program will place special emphasis on recruiting qualified women and minorities. The candidate selection process has been in place since the initiation of the program in 1997. Our mechanism for selection of candidates based on merit with consideration of diversity of race, gender, and age among the applicant pool. The Program is administered by the SPORE Director, Dr. Scott E. Kern. The emphasis is on recruitment of young or established investigators from the talented pool throughout the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to direct their research career focus upon translational progress in colorectal and pancreatic cancer. 2. Indicate the prospective mentors/consultants who have experience in translational research and who will interact directly with career development candidates. 3. Describe any candidates that have already been selected for support under this program and the rationale for these selections and 4. For competing renewal applications, list all of the individuals supported by this program during the past term of the grant, how the SPORE has contributed to their careers in translational research, and the process by which a career development project has been promoted or incorporated into the full translational research projects within the SPORE.