Education, Training, and Outreach Program

为我们的CCSB开发一个强大的教育组件是一项及时的事业，因为GUMC在将系统生物学的研究和教育扩展到我们整个校园的方向上取得了重大进展。我们已经提供了与该CCSB的教育和培训目标直接相关的多个项目。其中几项活动包括肿瘤生物学跨学科硕士学位(由Hilakivi-Clarke博士指导，项目3)，NCI资助的研究生和博士后肿瘤生物学培训补助金(T32-CA009686)，以及与哥伦比亚特区大学(历史上的黑人大学)在癌症生物学、预防和控制方面的合作教育项目(U56-CA101429)。我们还将与其他CCSB合作，专门针对CCSB成员和乔治敦大学/退伍军人技术/fccc社区，以及ICBP项目和更广泛的科学界的目标群体开展教育活动。这个CCSB的教育、培训和推广活动将由乔治敦大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学癌症系统生物学、生物信息学和计算建模领域的公认专家开发、领导和提供。这一高度整合的教职员工群体，他们的背景、培训、持续的研究和教育活动，建立了他们完成我们在这里提出的活动的集体能力。

Developing a strong educational component for our CCSB is a timely enterprise because GUMC has moved significantly in the direction of extending research and education in systems biology across our entire campus. We already offer multiple programs immediately relevant to the educational and training goals of this CCSB. Several of these activities occur within an interdisciplinary MS degree in Tumor Biology (directed by Dr. Hilakivi-Clarke, Project 3), a NCI-funded training grant in Tumor Biology for graduate and postdoctoral fellows (T32-CA009686), and a funded collaborative education program in cancer biology, prevention, and control with the University of the District of Columbia, a Historically Black University (U56-CA101429). We will also collaborate with other CCSBs to extend educational activities directed specifically to CCSB members and the Georgetown University/VA Tech/FCCC communities, and to those targeted across the ICBP program and the broader scientific community. The educational, training, and outreach activities in this CCSB will be developed, led, and delivered by acknowledged experts in the fields of cancer systems biology, bioinformatics, and computational modeling at Georgetown University and Virginia Tech. This highly integrated group of faculty, their backgrounds, training, ongoing research, and educational activities establish their collective ability to complete the activities we propose here.