'Cancer Education Grant Program'

描述(由申请人提供)： 本申请的目标是继续路易斯维尔大学癌症生物学的长期、高度成功的短期研究计划。目前的计划已经接受了20多年几乎连续的NIH支持。在这个项目的整个任期内，从临床和研究的角度，向卫生专业学生传播对癌症生物学中与疾病的诊断、预防和治疗相关的问题的欣赏是最优先的。目前的项目为师生互动提供了一个独特的场所，并通过每周肿瘤委员会会议、项目工作会议、特别项目研讨会、“癌症职业迷你研讨会”、实验室研究以及在地方/国家会议上的陈述，为积极进取和合格的学生提供接触癌症生物学并增强他们在该领域的知识的机会。本申请在师资培训、结果评估程序和提高学生对癌症保健和研究中职业机会的认识的特别倡议方面进行了重大修改。发起了一项新的全健康科学中心培训项目，这项活动受益于18名核心教员的参与，所有这些教员都由联邦/基金会来源提供大量资金，并对生物医学研究和教育表现出承诺。这个多学科小组代表着跨越七个大学系的研究和培训伙伴关系的形成，包括路易斯维尔大学牙科和医学院、J·格雷厄姆·布朗癌症中心、出生缺陷中心、遗传学和分子医学中心以及科赛尔儿童医院研究所。该计划的17名核心教员是J.Graham Brown癌症中心的参与成员。所有这些都致力于为学员提供接触和参与当代癌症生物学和细胞生长控制分子机制各个方面的研究计划。MD Anderson癌症中心的一位著名癌症流行病学家已被聘请为顾问，负责制定和执行项目评估和学员跟踪的系统战略，并担任该项目的教育顾问。总而言之，我们计划的目标是提供一个独特的、当代的癌症生物学教育场所，旨在培养下一代学术临床科学家。这些人将准备进入癌症保健和研究领域，并在降低癌症发病率、死亡率和发病率方面产生长期影响……通过癌症生物学预防癌症的首要主题！

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the present application is to continue the long-standing, highly successful, short-term research program in Cancer Biology at the University of Louisville. The current program has been the recipient of over twenty years of near-continuous NIH support. Throughout the tenure of this program, the highest priority has been given to disseminating, to health professional students, an appreciation for issues in cancer biology as they relate to diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the disease, from a clinical and research perspective. The current program provides a unique venue for student - faculty interaction, and provides highly motivated and qualified students with the opportunity to gain exposure to cancer biology and enhance their knowledge in this area through weekly Tumor Board conferences, Program Workconferences, special programmatic seminars, a "Cancer Careers Minisymposium," laboratory research, and presentations at local/national meetings. The present application has been revised substantially with regard to training faculty, outcomes assessment procedures, and special initiatives to increase student awareness of career opportunities in cancer health care and research. A new Health Science Center-wide training venture has been initiated, which benefits from the participation of eighteen core faculty, all of whom are funded extensively through federal/foundation sources and have a demonstrated commitment to biomedical research and education. This multidisciplinary group represents a forging of research and training partnerships spanning seven University departments and incorporating the University of Louisville Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, J. Graham Brown Cancer Center, Birth Defects Center, Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, and Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute. Seventeen of the program Core Faculty are participating members of the J. Graham Brown Cancer Center. All have committed to provide trainees with exposure to, and involvement in, contemporary research programs in varied aspects of cancer biology and molecular mechanisms of cellular growth control. A noted cancer epidemiologist from the MD Anderson Cancer Center has been enlisted as a consultant to develop and execute a systematic strategy for program evaluation and trainee tracking, and to function as an educational advisor for the program. In summary, it is the objective of our program to provide a unique and contemporary educational venue in cancer biology, designed to train the next generation of academic clinical scientists. These individuals will be poised to enter the fields of cancer health care and research, and have a long-term impact on reducing cancer incidence, mortality and morbidity....the foremost theme of cancer prevention through cancer biology!