Developmental Funds

由于本次提交是竞争性续订，我们将首先介绍一个简短的内容 描述我们的发展基金已经/将如何使用的背景。我们支持四个 每年都有发展基金项目，每个项目 45-5 万美元。项目期限最长为两年；第二年的资助与第一年的资助申请在资金池中竞争。我们最初的目标是 发展基金旨在促进将分子成像引入加州大学洛杉矶分校癌症研究；将最强大的分子、细胞和癌症研究人员带入成像领域，并宣传在基础癌症研究中使用非侵入性成像。在我们当前的资助周期中，四个研究组成项目中的三个是新的，并且是从发展基金项目发展而来的。为我们竞争性的 ICMIC 更新提供资金也许是我们实现目标的最佳客观证明。以下叙述描述了续签申请第一年拟议的发展基金项目。 在当前周期中，Jonsson 综合癌症中心和 David Geffen 医学院研究院长也与 Herschman 博士协商，提供资金支持相关项目（详细信息请参见 A 节描述）。

Since this submission is a competitive renewal, we will first present a brief Background to describe how our Developmental Funds have been/will be used. We support four Developmental Fund Projects annually, at $45-50K per project. Projects are for up to two years; second year funding competes in the pool with first year funding applicafions. Our initial goal for our Developmental Funds was to facilitate introduction of molecular imaging to UCLA cancer research; to bring the strongest molecular, cellular and cancer researchers into the imaging arena and to proselytize for use of non-invasive imaging in fundamental cancer research. In our current funding cycle, three of the four Research component Projects were new, and grew out of Developmental Funds Projects. Funding our competing ICMIC renewal is perhaps the best objective testimony that we achieved our goal. The narratives below describe proposed Developmental Fund Projects for year 1 of the renewal application. During this current cycle, the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Dean for Research for the David Geffen School of Medicine have also contributed funds to support related projects, in consultafion with Dr. Herschman (for details see Secfion A, Description).