1/2- Feasibility study to build a collaboration in genetics and genomic cancer research

项目摘要 这是汉普顿大学（HU）和Tisch癌症研究所（TCI）之间的合作， 西奈山伊坎医学院寻求在现场建立强有力的合作 和在线培训和教育，以提高胡教师在该领域的研究能力， 遗传学和基因组学与健康差异，同时增加TCI在健康差异方面的研究， 以前列腺癌和乳腺癌为例。最终目标是建立一个有竞争力的， 遗传学和基因组学癌症研究联合中心，包括 健康差异的遗传学和基因组学方面，以解释乳腺癌的人口差异 和前列腺癌的发生和结果。 该建议是基于一个长期和富有成效的本科教育 这两个机构的教师之间的合作，但在其重点，方法和 目标.因此，拟议的计划将利用从以前的最佳做法 共同努力，为加强研究提供信息并创建一个创新平台 这两个机构的能力，同时解决关键的体制挑战。我们的目标是 通过一系列协调良好的培训/教育活动和两个试点项目， 这些研究项目是从战略上选择的，以满足我们的总体目标：1）提高 弱势群体的健康结果，2）解决癌症差异研究中的差距，3） 增强基因组学、统计学、流行病学专业知识和4）加强研究人员 生产力和外部资金竞争力。 培训和教育将旨在提高胡教师在遗传学领域的研究能力 以及基因组学和健康差异，以前列腺癌和乳腺癌为例。它将 为TCI ISMMS提供乳腺和前列腺科学项目的访问和合作 癌症差异病因学，治疗和结果，以及增加 遗传学和基因组学教师的多样性，传统上缺乏多样性 为了确保培训和教育计划的成功，我们组织了一个优秀的 教师团队具有出色的指导和教学记录，沿着广泛的 在开发和实施旨在使临床多样化的新举措方面的专业知识 调查人员队伍和消除健康差距。胡教师也将接触到 通过完成试点项目， 研究项目。

Project Summary This is a partnership between Hampton University (HU) and the Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that seeks to establish robust collaborations on-site and online training and education to increase HU faculty's research capacity in the area of genetics and genomics and health disparities, while increasing TCI research in health disparities, using the examples of prostate and breast cancer. The final goal is to create a competitive and sustainable joint Center for Genetics and Genomics Cancer Research, encompassing the genetics and genomics aspects of health disparities to explain population differences in breast and prostate cancer occurrence and outcome. The proposal is grounded in a longstanding and productive undergraduate educational collaboration between faculty at these two institutions, but is distinct in its focus, methods, and goals. Hence, the proposed program will utilize the best practices learned from previous collaborative endeavors to inform and create an innovative platform which will enhance research capacity at both institutions while addressing key institutional challenges. Our goals will be accomplished through a series of well-coordinated training/educational activities and two pilot research projects that were strategically chosen to meet our overarching goals of 1) improving health outcomes in vulnerable populations, 2) addressing gaps in cancer disparities research, 3) augmenting genomic, statistics, epidemiology expertise and 4) enhancing investigator productivity and extramural funding competitiveness. Training and education will aim to increase HU faculty's research capacity in the area of genetics and genomics and health disparities, using the examples of prostate and breast cancer. It will provide TCI ISMMS with access and collaboration to scientific projects in breast and prostate cancer disparity etiology, treatment and outcome, as well as to a mechanism to increase the diversity of the genetics and genomics faculty, which has traditionally lacked diversity To ensure the success of the training and education program, we have assembled an excellent team of faculty with outstanding mentoring and teaching track records, along with extensive expertise in developing and implementing new initiatives aimed at diversifying the clinical investigator workforce and eliminating health disparities. HU faculty will also be exposed to the most novel and cutting edge methods in cancer genomics through the completion of the pilot research project.