Developmental Funds

在癌症中心支持赠款的下一个5年周期中，金梅尔癌症中心每年申请大约400,000美元的发展基金。这些资金是KCC灵活资金的关键来源，也是招聘新教师和试点项目资金的重要支持来源。在下一个周期，所有申请的资金将仅用于这些目的。已经确定了四个领域的中心范围的招聘需求：结构生物学、辐射研究和翻译生物学、泌尿生殖系癌症和癌症遗传学。发展基金将使这些领域的征聘工作成为可能，这不仅将加强具体的需要领域，而且还将加强方案内和方案间的协作。上一个周期确定的试点项目筹资倡议也将在发展基金的支持下继续下去。 在前一个周期中，发展基金用于支持：1)招聘教师，2)建立新的共享资源，以及3)支持旨在提交计划项目申请的试点项目。这笔资金的结果证明，发展基金的支出是非常有益的。利用发展基金招聘并得到发展基金支持的新教员在建立实验室、获得外部、同行评审的资金以及 开始公布他们的研究结果。发展基金还促成了两个新的共享资源(微阵列、蛋白质组学和质谱学)的建立，事实证明，这两个资源对癌症中心的研究人员来说是如此宝贵，它们将在下一个周期转变为完全的KCC共享资源。这些新的共享资源的活动已经在顶级同行评议的期刊上发表了许多出版物。发展基金还促进了为这两种共享资源招聘杰出的新主任。

For the next 5 year cycle of the Cancer Center Support Grant, the Kimmel Cancer Center is requesting approximately $400,000 per year in Developmental Funds. These funds are a critical source of flexible funding for the KCC, and provide a vital source of support for recruitment of new faculty and for pilot project funding. For the next cycle, all the funds requested will be utilized only for those purposes. Center-wide recruitment needs have been identified in four areas: Structural Biology, Radiation Research and Translational Biology, Genito-Urinary Cancer, and Cancer Genetics. Developmental Funds will enable recruitments in these areas, which will not only strengthen specific areas of need, but also enhance intra- and inter-programmatic collaborations. The pilot project funding initiative established in the previous cycle also will be continued with the support of Developmental Funds. During the previous cycle, Developmental Funds were used to support: 1) faculty recruitment, 2) establishment of new shared resources, and 3) support for pilot projects aimed at the submission of program project applications. The results of this funding have proven the expenditure of Developmental Funds to be very beneficial. New faculty recruited with and supported by Developmental Funds have been highly successful in establishing their laboratories, acquiring external, peer-reviewed funding, and starting to publish the results of their studies. Developmental Funds also enabled the establishment of two new shared resources (Microarray, and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry) which have proven so invaluable to cancer center researchers that they will be transformed into full KCC shared resources in the next cycle. Numerous publications in top peer-reviewed journals have already resulted from the activities of these new shared resources. Developmental Funds also facilitated the recruitment of outstanding new Directors for both of these shared resources.