Morehouse School of Med/Tuskegee U/UAB Comp. Cancer Center Partnership

项目总结(见说明)： 这份申请是为了延续莫尔豪斯医学院(MSM)、塔斯基吉大学(TU)和阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校(UAB)综合癌症中心(UABCCC)之间的现有合作伙伴关系。这三个机构各自为存在严重黑人和白人种族差距的社区服务，拥有相辅相成的独特优势。主要目标是 保持在MSM和TU建立有效的癌症研究计划方面的进展，并坚持发展TU未来少数民族研究人员的管道。该伙伴关系在教育、研究、职业发展和癌症推广方面有四个有效的研究计划，将继续：1)通过有效的研究培训，挖掘目前在MSM和TU的有才华的学生和教职员工 和职业发展(RTCD)计划，将他们与UABCCC的现有研究人员和研究基础设施联系起来；2)促进发展研究计划，该计划提供资助机会，与RTCD计划并行开展研究项目；3)鼓励博士后研究员、研究生和跨科学学科的本科生从事职业生涯 通过我们的癌症教育计划，并为我们的RTCD和发展研究计划提供渠道；以及，4)通过我们已建立的社区外联计划(现为癌症外联计划)，在我们服务最少的人群中促进癌症筛查和健康生活方式，并增加少数族裔参与治疗临床试验。该伙伴关系有两个互动共享资源：1)生物伦理共享资源促进并确保遵守 生物伦理原则和解决多数人和少数人机构之间以及机构和服务不足的社区之间的关系中的伦理考虑；以及2)生物统计共享资源维持对伙伴关系所有项目的统计支持。随着继续取得的成就，这一伙伴关系将为UABCCC、MSM和TU提供更强的能力，以进行癌症健康差异的研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): This application is for continuation of the existing partnership between Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Tuskegee University (TU), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center (UABCCC). The three institutions, each serving a community with major black-white racial disparities, possess unique sets of strengths that complement each other. The primary objectives are to maintain progress in establishment of effective cancer research programs at MSM and TU and to persist In developing a pipeline of prospective minority Investigators at TU. The Partnership, with four effective Research Programs In education, research, career progression, and cancer outreach, will continue: 1) to tap the pool of talented students and faculty currently at MSM and TU through an effective Research Training and Career Development (RTCD) Program, linking them to established investigators and to the research Infrastructure at the UABCCC; 2) to promote a Developmental Research Program, which provides funding opportunities to conduct research projects in parallel to the RTCD Program; 3) to encourage postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates across scientific disciplines to pursue careers in the biosciences through our Cancer Education Program and to provide a pipeline into our RTCD and Developmental Research Programs; and, 4) through our established Community Outreach (now Cancer Outreach) Program, to promote cancer screening and healthy lifestyles among our most underserved populations and increase minority participation in therapeutic clinical trials. The partnership has two Interactive Shared Resources: 1) The Bioethics Shared Resource promotes and ensures adherence to bioethical principles and addresses ethical considerations in relationships between majority and minority institutions and between institutions and underserved communities; and 2) The Biostatistics Shared Resource maintains statistical support to all programs ofthe Partnership. With continued accomplishments, this partnership will provide the UABCCC, MSM, and TU with an enhanced capability to conduct research on cancer health disparities.