Career Development Program

职业发展计划（CDP）的总体具体目标是招募和发展致力于前列腺癌转化研究的初级教师的职业生涯，以及在合理的情况下，已经在另一个研究领域建立的中级和高级研究人员，他们希望将研究重点重新定向到前列腺癌领域。前列腺癌研究的未来在于创造性和创新性的研究人员继续进入该领域，以及解决未满足需求领域的基础和转化项目的开发。这些努力的机构支持也是在该领域的进步至关重要;因此，前列腺孢子的CDP是由机构基金的补充，以允许在我们的孢子研究目标的范围内的重要的新举措的快速资助。每年为SPORE项目和核心支持提供总计675，000美元的机构资金，并为CDP预算提供补充资金，使SPORE计划能够支持在前列腺癌转化研究领域工作的有前途的新研究人员。资助的优先事项将是那些有潜力在前列腺癌领域的独立研究生涯的申请人，其倡议被认为是最高的科学价值，并与转化潜力和相关性的整体研究使命的加州大学洛杉矶分校前列腺孢子。经发展项目甄选委员会初步审查后，执行委员会批准供资项目，并确定发展项目资金的使用优先次序。每个项目的年度资金将至少为50，000美元，每年至少资助两个CDP奖项。

The overall Specific Aim of the Career Development Program (CDP) is to recruit and develop the careers of junior faculty members who are committed to translational research in prostate cancer, and, in well-justified cases, mid-level and senior investigators who are already established in another area of research who want to redirect their research focus to the field of prostate cancer. The future of prostate cancer research lies in the continued entry of creative and innovative investigators into the field and the development of basic and translational projects that solve areas of unmet need. Institutional support of these endeavors is also critical to advances in the field; therefore the Prostate SPORE's CDP is supplemented by institutional funds to allow for rapid funding of important new initiatives within the scope of our SPORE research goals. Institutional funding totaling $675,000 annually has been secured for SPORE project and core support, as well as to provide supplemental funds for the CDP budget, allowing for the SPORE program to support promising new investigators working in the field of prostate cancer translational research. The priority for funding will be those applicants with potential for an independent research career in the field of prostate cancer, and whose initiatives are considered of highest scientific merit and with translational potential and relevance to the overall research mission of the UCLA Prostate SPORE. After initial review by the CDP Selection Committee, the Executive Committee approves the funding line and determines priorities for use of the CDP funds. Annual funding for each project will be a minimum of $50,000, and a minimum of two CDP awards will be funded annually.