Planning Grant Minority Institution/Cancer Center Colla*

描述(由申请人提供)： 路易斯安那大学新奥尔良分校(XULA)和杜兰大学健康科学中心的杜兰癌症中心(TCC)建议在癌症研究和教育方面发展有效、可持续和互惠互利的合作伙伴关系，重点关注非裔美国人的癌症差异。这项申请侧重于通过建立在互补的机构优势基础上，在癌症研究和癌症教育方面进行联合规划来规划和发展伙伴关系。这一伙伴关系将规划、确定优先顺序并实施一系列相互关联的试点计划，这些计划将导致针对教职员工、研究员和学生的重大协作竞争性研究项目和教育计划的发展。该提案的具体合作部分包括：试点研究项目；指导学生进行癌症研究以及提供癌症教育(癌症生物学、文化敏感性和多样性课程)的试点教育计划。这一过程将加强教师和学生的职业发展资源，并提供基础设施的加强。XULA提供合作伙伴关系：1)提供高质量的教育经验，推动非裔美国学生进入医学、生物医学研究和制药行业；2)聚集对癌症研究合作和培训计划感兴趣的教职员工和学生；3)成立少数民族健康和健康差距研究和教育研究所。TCC和杜兰大学为合作伙伴关系带来了：1)在基础科学和临床癌症研究方面的丰富经验和专业知识；2)为XULA的教师提供癌症研究方面的合作和培训机会；3)有效完成研究项目的设备和核心；以及4)为对癌症研究职业感兴趣的学生提供癌症研究培训和教育机会。这些互补的机构优势将有助于合作伙伴关系：1)建立有效的癌症研究基础设施/计划，并增加对少数族裔服务机构的教职员工和学生的培训；2)加强学生、实习生和教职员工的癌症教育，强调与癌症相关的发病机制、预防和结果方面的差异，并提高XULA和TCC的学生和科学家对在健康差异背景下研究和解决癌症研究的挑战和机会的培训和敏感度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Xavier University of Louisiana at New Orleans (XULA) and the Tulane Cancer Center (TCC) of Tulane University Health Sciences Center propose to develop an effective, sustainable, and mutually beneficial partnership in cancer research and education that focuses on African-American cancer disparities. This application focuses on planning and developing a Partnership by building on complementary institutional strengths conducting joint planning in cancer research and cancer education. The partnership will plan, prioritize, and implement a series of linked pilot initiatives that will lead toward the development of significant collaborative competitive research projects and educational programs aimed at faculty, fellows, and students. Specific collaborative components of the proposal include: pilot research projects; pilot education programs to mentor students in cancer research as well as provide cancer education (courses in Cancer Biology, Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity). This process will enhance the career development for faculty and students resource and provide infrastructure enhancement. XULA offers the partnership: 1) a reputation for providing high quality educational experiences that launch African American students into careers in medicine, biomedical research and pharmacy; 2) a cluster of faculty and students interested in cancer research collaborations and training programs; 3) an established Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparity Research and Education. The TCC and Tulane University bring to the Partnership: 1) extensive experience and expertise in basic science and clinical cancer research; 2) collaborative and training opportunities in cancer research for faculty from XULA; 3) equipment and cores for the effective accomplishment of research projects; and 4) cancer research training and educational opportunities for students interested in careers in cancer research. These complementary institutional strengths will help the partnership: 1) establish an effective cancer research infrastructure/program and increase training of faculty and students from a minority serving institution; and 2) enhance student, trainee, and faculty cancer education emphasizing cancer-related disparities in pathogenesis, prevention and outcome, and increase the training and sensitivity of students and scientists at XULA and the TCC to the challenges and opportunities in studying and addressing cancer research in the context of health disparity.