Multidisciplinary Training in Cancer Research

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议的培训计划专门针对癌症研究领域的博士生和博士后的多学科培训。为了实现这一目标，我们已经开发了一个跨学科的癌症培训计划，该计划将综合已经建立和成功的信号转导，基因结构和功能，受体生物学，DNA修复，结构生物学，生物工程和药物发现与临床暴露为一个有衔接的计划。学生和研究员将接受实验室培训，并由积极参与基础科学癌症研究和前沿临床应用的专家教师进行教学指导。此外，我们的目标是，我们的学生和研究员也将被训练成科学界的积极成员，能够清晰地交流思想，批判性地评估生物医学研究，并在科学奖学金方面指导他人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our proposed training program is specifically focused on the multidisciplinary training of predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the field of cancer research. To achieve this goal we have developed an interdisciplinary cancer training program which will synthesize already established and successful programs in signal transduction, gene structure and function, receptor biology, DNA repair, structural biology, bioengineering and drug discovery with clinical exposure into one cohesive program. Students and fellows will receive laboratory training and didactic instruction from expert faculty actively involved in both basic science cancer research and leading edge clinical applications. Moreover, it is our goal that our students and fellows will also be trained to function as active members of the scientific community who can clearly communicate ideas, critically evaluate biomedical research and mentor others in scientific scholarship. We have assembled 31 training faculty from 9 different departments and multiple disciplines. This cohesive and collaborative group of basic researchers and clinician scientists who are dedicated to a lifetime of basic discovery and treatment of cancer patients. In the past 10 years our program faculty has trained 112 predoctoral and 180 postdoctoral fellows and has the experience as well as the interdisciplinary focus to guide this group of trainees to function in teams pursuing research in a truly multidisciplinary fashion. We want our students and fellows to be adept at utilizing traditionally hypothesis driven methods as well as discovery oriented experimental designs to explore these problems. The ultimate goal is to develop a cadre of future scientists who can participate at the intersection of molecular biology, genomics/proteomics, bioengineering and clinical care to become leaders in integrative and team approaches to understand the complex issues of cancer as it relates to potential prevention and innovative treatment strategies. In addition, UTMB is a national leader in the training of minority physicians, researchers and students and, therefore, another goal of our program is to utilize established programs to ensure that we are training individuals of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to better serve our diverse society.