UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Early Stage Investigator Recruitment

描述（由申请人提供）：亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB）是亚拉巴马最大的雇主，在大学和卫生系统拥有18，000多名教职员工，并负责大学和社区内的52，900个全职等效工作。伯明翰地区每100个工作岗位中有8个，亚拉巴马每100个工作岗位中有2.8个与UAB有关。UAB在伯明翰都会区的整体经济影响每年超过30亿美元。与ARRA的目标一致，该应用程序将创造四个就业机会，并通过购买设备为经济投入16万美元。 UAB综合癌症中心是UAB癌症研究活动的中心，并通过这一机制向NCI申请资金，以促进招募两名早期研究人员作为中心成员。特别是，我们的目标是药物开发/药理学和病毒学/免疫学领域，以建立在中心的研究计划的优势。他们将有机会在基础设施和合作知识资本方面获得丰富的研究环境。此外，他们将得到UAB校园内各自领域领导者的指导和指导。这两名教师的招聘承诺延长两年过去的时间框架，代表UAB癌症中心的承诺，他们的成功，以及赞助部门，药理学和毒理学和微生物学的承诺。 通过UAB癌症中心正在进行的招聘工作，已经确定了两名强有力的候选人，每个职位一名，并在申请中对其进行了描述。 公共卫生相关性：我们的申请直接响应RFA-OD-09-005中概述的目标。该申请的资金将创造两个新的教师和两个新的工作人员职位。此外，它还将为购买研究设备提供大量资金。创造就业机会和向经济注入资金将共同实现ARRA的目标。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by the applicant): The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is Alabama's largest employer, with more than 18,000 faculty and staff at the university and in the health system, and is responsible for 52,900 full-time equivalent jobs within the university and the community. Eight in every 100 jobs in the Birmingham area, and 2.8 jobs in every 100 jobs in Alabama, are related to UAB. UAB's overall economic impact in the Birmingham metro area exceeds $3 billion annually. Consistent with ARRA goals, this application will create four jobs and put $160,000 into the economy through equipment purchases. The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center is the hub for cancer research activities at UAB and requests funding from the NCI through this mechanism to facilitate recruitment of two early stage investigators as part of the Center's membership. In particular we are targeting the areas of drug development/pharmacology and virology/immunology to build on strengths within the Center's research programs. They will have access to a rich research environment in terms of both infrastructure and collaborative intellectual capital. In addition, they will be supported by mentoring and guidance from leaders in their respective fields that are on the UAB campus. Both faculty recruits have commitments extending two years past the time frame of this application representing the UAB Cancer Center's commitment to their success as well as the commitment of the sponsoring departments, Pharmacology & Toxicology and Microbiology. Two strong candidates, one for each position, have been identified through ongoing recruitment efforts at the UAB Cancer Center and they are described in the application. Public Health Relevance: Our application is in direct response to the objectives outlined in RFA-OD-09-005. Funding of this application will create two new faculty and two new staff jobs. In addition it will provide significant funding for the purchase of research equipment. Together the creation of jobs and the infusion of money into the economy will meet the objectives of the ARRA.