2/2 The Alabama State University/UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership

2/2 阿拉巴马州立大学/UAB 综合癌症中心合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8931940
• 负责人: MANOJ K. MISHRA
• 金额: $ 14.46万
• 依托单位: ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-23 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8931940
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; African American; Alabama; Area; Basic Cancer Research; Basic Science; Behavioral; Bioethics; Bioinformatics; Biological Markers; Biometry; Cancer Research Project; Caucasians; Characteristics; Collaborations; Colorectal Cancer; Communities; Community Health; Complex; Comprehensive Cancer Center; Consultations; Core Facility; Development; Drops; Education; Educational Curriculum; Environment; Evaluation; Faculty; Funding; Genetic; Goals; Health Educators; Health Professional; Health Services Accessibility; Healthcare; Heart; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Immune; Incidence; Institution; Lead; Life Style; Link; Malignant Neoplasms; Malignant neoplasm of prostate; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; Minority-Serving Institution; Molecular; Morbidity - disease rate; Nature; Organizational Change; Outcome; Patients; Pilot Projects; Population; Population Study; Research; Research Ethics; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Scientist; Source; Students; System; Testing; Training; Training and Education; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center; anticancer research; base; burden of illness; cancer care; cancer health disparity; career; career development; design; ethnic minority population; health disparity; interest; member; mortality; multidisciplinary; novel; outreach; programs; public health relevance; socioeconomics; success; tumor progression; undergraduate education; undergraduate student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to establish a Partnership between Alabama State University (ASU) and the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center (UAB CCC). The Partnership, located in the heart of the Southeast, a region with a large, historically underserved African American population, has goals of attaining excellence in research focused on cancer health disparities. The two institutions possess unique strengths that supplement each other. At ASU, which is classified as a historically black college and university (HBCU), more than 90% of students and more than 60% of the faculty belong to an underserved minority community in which health disparities are a significant issue in various areas, including cancer. The UAB CCC, in contrast, has developed an extensive infrastructure and critical mass of scientists that are necessary for a sustained research program. Still, ASU has a cultural sensitivity and perspective that may be deficient in the UAB CCC. Thus, the partners will facilitate collaborations in cancer-related research, training (career development), and education to aid this underserved community. UAB CCC faculty/scientists will cooperate with faculty and students at ASU and thereby initiate cancer research programs, creating an conduit for ASU faculty and students to pursue cancer research programs. The proposed effort will engage underserved groups by providing advanced research in prostate and colorectal cancer (both of which are major cancer health disparities for African Americans), by providing training to students and faculty members and by introducing topics related to cancer health disparities into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at ASU. The proposed Partnership has an Administrative Core, a Cancer Research Program with two functioning projects, and a Cancer Training and Education Program. Within the Administrative Core, there are Bioethics Support, Biostatistics/Bioinformatics Support, and Evaluation Support. The Partnership will be guided by an Internal Advisory Committee, which will consist of two distinguished scientists of each institution; an Executive Committee with members of both institutions; and, for each organization, a Partnership Institutional Committee. The Cancer Training and Education Program will reach talented students and faculty at ASU, linking them to established investigators and to the research infrastructure at the UAB CCC, and facilitate faculty, graduate, and undergraduate student and education in the area of cancer research in order to increase the number of minority investigators involved in cancer research. The goal of the Bioethics support will be to provide exceptional bioethics education, training, guidance, and consultation throughout the Partnership. The goal of the Biostatistics/Bioinformatics support will be to address the statistical/bioinformatics needs of the research projects sponsored by the Partnership. The specific aims for the Partnership are: (1) to enhance, by development of junior faculty members, the research and administrative infrastructure to conduct competitive basic and community-based cancer research at ASU; (2) to develop investigators committed to research in cancer disparities at both partnering institutions; and (3) to establish a pipeline of minority cancer disparity researchers and health professionals between ASU and UAB.

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请旨在建立亚拉巴马州立大学（ASU）和UAB综合癌症中心（UAB CCC）之间的合作关系。该伙伴关系位于东南部的中心地带，该地区有一个巨大的，历史上服务不足的地区。 非裔美国人的目标是在专注于癌症健康差异的研究中取得卓越成就。这两个机构具有相辅相成的独特优势。在亚利桑那州立大学，这是被列为历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU），超过90%的学生和超过60%的教师属于服务不足的少数民族社区，其中健康差距是一个重大问题，在各个领域，包括癌症。相比之下，UAB CCC已经发展了广泛的基础设施和科学家的临界质量，这是持续研究计划所必需的。尽管如此，亚利桑那州立大学有一个文化的敏感性和观点，可能是在UAB CCC不足。因此，合作伙伴将促进癌症相关研究，培训（职业发展）和教育方面的合作，以帮助这个服务不足的社区。UAB CCC教师/科学家将与亚利桑那州立大学的教师和学生合作，从而启动癌症研究计划，为亚利桑那州立大学的教师和学生追求癌症研究计划创造一个渠道。拟议的努力将通过提供前列腺癌和结直肠癌的先进研究（两者都是非洲裔美国人的主要癌症健康差距），通过为学生和教职员工提供培训，并通过将与癌症健康差距相关的主题引入亚利桑那州立大学的本科和研究生课程，来吸引服务不足的群体。拟议的伙伴关系有一个行政核心，一个癌症研究方案，其中有两个运作项目，以及一个癌症培训和教育方案。在行政核心内，有生物伦理学支持，生物统计学/生物信息学支持和评估支持。该伙伴关系将由一个内部咨询委员会提供指导，该委员会将由每个机构的两名杰出科学家组成;一个由两个机构的成员组成的执行委员会;以及每个组织的伙伴关系机构委员会。癌症培训和教育计划将达到有才华的学生和教师在亚利桑那州立大学，将他们联系到既定的调查人员和研究基础设施在UAB CCC，并促进教师，研究生和本科生和教育在癌症研究领域，以增加参与癌症研究的少数民族调查人员的数量。生物伦理支持的目标是在整个伙伴关系中提供特殊的生物伦理教育、培训、指导和咨询。生物统计学/生物信息学支助的目标是满足伙伴关系赞助的研究项目的统计学/生物信息学需求。该伙伴关系的具体目标是：（1）通过发展初级教师，加强研究和行政基础设施，以在亚利桑那州立大学进行有竞争力的基础和社区为基础的癌症研究;（2）发展致力于在两个合作机构的癌症差异研究的调查人员;（3）在ASU和UAB之间建立一个少数民族癌症差异研究人员和卫生专业人员的管道。