Postdoctoral Training in Cancer Prevention and Control

描述（由申请人提供）：有强有力的证据表明生活方式和行为风险因素与一系列癌症有关。也有强有力的证据表明，生活方式的改变和广泛的干预可以减少癌症的人口负担。随着美国人口老龄化，受癌症影响的个体数量持续增长，癌症发病率和死亡率的差异仍然存在于种族/民族、社会经济水平和地理位置上，因此，这是一个关键时刻，重点放在癌症预防和控制研究方面的研究人员的培训上，这些研究可以覆盖人口中的多个群体。越来越多地，我们的健康促进目标不能通过在单一学科内工作来实现。因此，在本次T32基金申请中，我们提出了癌症预防与控制研究博士后培养计划。我们的总体目标是为有兴趣从事癌症预防和控制研究的学者提供个性化的跨学科博士后培训经验。当我们在招募、保留和培训成功的研究人员方面取得初步成功时，我们的申请资金就来了，这将使我们能够通过利用机构资源和资助来维持和扩大我们的项目，比如我们的能量学和癌症跨学科研究（TREC）中心、我们的社区网络项目中心、消除癌症差异项目，这两个项目都包括培训元素。TREC外部顾问委员会在形成和完善我们的项目要素方面发挥了重要作用，因此我们为T32做好了充分的准备。我们的培训计划包括结构化元素，包括个人发展计划、指导研究经验和可定制的教学培训机会。我们的创新培训还包括一个跨学科的期刊俱乐部，职业发展规划，以及与媒体和非专业观众沟通的培训。华盛顿大学医学院为学员提供了丰富的环境，我们在癌症预防和控制方面的跨学科培训为大学环境提供了独特的资源。通过T32机制的支持将使我们能够继续培养博士和医学博士科学家进行跨学科研究，并领导下一代癌症预防和控制研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is strong evidence linking lifestyle and behavioral risk factors with a range of cancers. There is also strong evidence that lifestyle change and widespread intervention can reduce the population burden of cancer. The number of individuals affected by cancer continues to grow as the U.S. population ages, and disparities in cancer incidence and mortality remain by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic level, and geography, thus this is a critical time to place emphasis on training investigators in cancer prevention and control research that can reach multiple groups within a population. Increasingly, our health promotion goals cannot be achieved by working within a single discipline. Thus, in this new application for T32 funding, we propose the Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Our overall goal is to provide an individualized transdisciplinary postdoctoral training experience to scholars interested in establishing careers in cancer prevention and control research. Our application funding comes at a time when we have demonstrated preliminary success in recruiting, retaining, and training successful researchers, and will allow us to sustain and expand our program by leveraging institutional resources and grants such as our Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Center, and our Community Networks Program Center, the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities, both of which included training elements. The TREC External Advisory Board has been a critical asset in forming and refining our program elements, so we are well prepared for this T32. Our training program includes structured elements including individual development plans, mentored research experiences, and customizable didactic training opportunities. Our innovative training also includes a transdisciplinary journal club, career development programming, and training in communicating with media and lay audiences. Washington University School of Medicine offers a rich environment for trainees, and our transdisciplinary training in cancer prevention and control offers a unique resource to the university environment. Support through this T32 mechanism will allow us to continue to train PhD and MD scientists to conduct transdisciplinary research and lead the next generation of cancer prevention and control researchers.