Mentoring/Career Development Core

培养一名独立科学家所需的培训的深度和持续时间需要两个主要的基础支柱。第一个是学术环境，第二个是资金（工资和研究），以支持实习生，使他/她能够体验/从环境中受益。在乌干达，如同在撒哈拉以南非洲的大多数国家一样，在环境和资金方面特别脆弱的培训时期是在形成性的教学性研究生培训之后。非洲有几个硕士或博士学位培训的资金流，但由于学者们试图向独立过渡，因此在研究生培训后获得全面支持的机会很少。在美国，这种研究生培训通常是由NIH的“K奖”项目完成的，无论是在个人层面还是在机构层面。然而，K奖不向非美国居民开放，我们也不知道撒哈拉以南非洲国家是否赞助了类似的机制。为了解决研究生阶段职业发展的需要，乌干达-加州大学旧金山分校预防和早期发现艾滋病毒相关癌症联盟的指导/职业发展核心将：

The depth and duration of training needed to mold an independent scientist needs two major foundational pillars. The first is an academic environment and the second is funding (for salary and research) to support the trainee such that he/she can experience/benefit from the environment. In Uganda, as is the case in most of sub-Saharan Africa, a particularly vulnerable period of training both in terms of environment and funding is that following formative didactic graduate training. There are several funding streams for Master's or Ph.D. degree training in Africa but few opportunities for comprehensive support after graduate training as scholars attempt to transition to independence. In the U.S., this post-graduate training is often accomplished by NIH "K Award" programs, both at an individual and institutional level. K Awards are not, however, open to non- U.S. residents, and we are not aware of similar mechanisms sponsored by sub-Saharan African countries. To address the need for career development in the post-graduate period, the Mentoring/Career Development Core of the Uganda-UCSF Consortium on Prevention and Early Detection of HIV-associated Cancer will: Aim 1. Bolster the overall environment for mentoring/career development in clinical and translational research at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) in Uganda. Patterned after a institutional K Award programs in the U.S., this aim will be achieved by the creation at the IDI of a weekly Career Development Seminar, specialized didactic instruction, teaching opportunities, and training of mentors. Aim 2. Mentor and provide protected time for three emerging Ugandan principal investigators working in the field of HIV-associated malignancies as they develop their academic and leadership portfolio and mature towards independence. By again drawing upon the lessons learned from K Award funding in the U.S., three emerging Ugandan principal investigators will have a substantial fraction of their time supported for the conduct of research in area of HIV-associated malignancies and other scholarly activities intended to develop their expertise, credibility, leadership, and independence. Aim 3. Award funding for pilot research projects to be conducted by emerging African scientists on topics related to the prevention and early detection of HIV-associated malignancies. With the assistance of an institutional commitment from UCSF, we will award each year in the funding cycle two grants of up $25,000 (direct cost) for pilot research projects related to the Consortium's research themes.