Developmental Research Program

工程项目 I.介绍 皮肤癌孢子发展项目计划的目标是：1）提供短期的 资助皮肤癌研究方面的创新和有价值的研究项目，这些项目有可能 在哈佛癌症中心（DFHCC）发展成转化研究，更广泛地说， 哈佛医学界，2）确保持续供应高质量和创新的 转化研究，以补充现有的和新的项目在皮肤癌孢子。这些项目 可能是研究者发起的实验室或临床研究，也可能是为了创建共享的 资源或加强研究基础设施的孢子。发展项目计划将依靠 管理核心（核心1）为实现这些目标而创建的基础设施。该过程将 涉及： 1)确定与皮肤癌相关的有前途的转化研究领域 2)征集解决这些和其他领域的高质量应用程序 3)选择值得资助的项目 4)向项目提供资金 5)评估项目的进展和成果，包括 过渡到正式项目状态 6)对整个发展方案成功与否的评价 这一过程为我们提供了很好的服务，在这次竞争性更新中， 5)都是基于发展项目的科学成果。目前，类似的方法 在其他DFHCC SPORE中运行良好。中描述了此过程中的具体步骤 更多细节见下文。

DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS PROGRAM I. INTRODUCTION The goals of the Developmental Project Program of the Skin Cancer SPORE are 1) to provide short-term funding for innovative and meritorious research projects in skin cancer research that have the potential to evolve into translational studies across the Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center (DFHCC) and, more broadly, the Harvard medical community, and 2) to ensure a continuous supply of high quality and innovative translational research to complement existing and new projects in the Skin Cancer SPORE. These projects may be investigator initiated laboratory or clinical research, or they might be designed to create a shared resource or enhance the research infrastructure of the SPORE. The Developmental Project Program will rely on the infrastructure created by the Administrative Core (Core 1) to accomplish these goals. The process will involve: 1) Identification of promising areas of translational research related to skin cancer 2) Solicitation of high quality applications addressing these and other areas 3) Selection of worthy Projects for funding 4) Provision of funds to the Projects 5) Evaluation of progress and accomplishments of the Projects including the possibility of transition into full Project status 6) Evaluation of the success of the Developmental Program as a whole This process has served us well, and three new full projects in this competitive renewal (Projects 3,4, and 5) are based upon scientific results that emerged from developmental projects. Similar processes are currently in place and working well for the other DFHCC SPOREs. The specific steps in this process are described in more detail below.