Moffitt Postdoctoral Training Program in Molecular Epidemiology

 描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是响应PA-14-015（NCI机构研究培训补助金）提交的竞争性续期申请。根据该计划的公告，我们寻求继续资助莫菲特癌症中心（MCC）的博士后培训计划在癌症的分子流行病学，一个程序下首次资助R25 T机制在2010年，培养博士后候选人在癌症研究设置是高度跨学科和协作。具体目标是：1）继续扩大和完善我们的依赖于MCC和南佛罗里达大学（USF）的教师和资源的分子流行病学研究的博士后培训计划; 2）招募一批致力于癌症分子流行病学研究人员职业生涯的有前途的学员; 3）为这些学员提供成为癌症分子流行病学成功独立研究者所需的知识、技能、机会和指导。该培训计划建立在具有癌症流行病学，分子和遗传流行病学，人口科学，分子生物学和医学背景的研究人员之间广泛而富有成效的合作基础上。这些研究人员都是USF的教师和MCC癌症流行病学研究项目的成员，该项目在该中心最近的NCI癌症中心支持赠款更新中被评为例外。该计划的一个关键特征是开发和完善癌症分子流行病学专业课程，该课程在我们的机构中不可用，并以必要的方式与该计划的培训目标和目的相联系。如申请书所述，这一专门课程包括一年级和二年级学员所需的核心课程和一门选修课程，旨在提供个性化培训，由每个学员与其培训委员会协商选定。在我们的第一个奖项周期，该计划成功地吸引了一个有才华的和多样化的申请人池，从这个池中招募最好的申请人，并为招募的学员提供必要的技能，经验和指导，成为成功的独立调查人员在流行病学的分子癌症领域。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a competitive renewal application submitted in response to PA-14-015 (NCI Institutional Research Training Grant). In accordance with the program announcement, we seek continued funding for the Moffitt Cancer Center (MCC) Post-Doctoral Training Program in Molecular Epidemiology of Cancer, a program first funded under the R25T mechanism in 2010 that trains postdoctoral candidates in cancer research settings that are highly interdisciplinary and collaborative. Specific aims are to: 1) continue to expand and refine our curriculum-dependent postdoctoral training program in molecular epidemiological research that draws upon the faculty and resources of the MCC and the University of South Florida (USF); 2) recruit a diverse group of promising trainees who are committed to careers as researchers in cancer molecular epidemiology; 3) provide these trainees with the knowledge, skills, opportunities, and mentoring needed to become successful independent investigators in cancer molecular epidemiology. The training program builds on extensive and productive collaborations among researchers with backgrounds in cancer epidemiology, molecular and genetic epidemiology, population science, molecular biology, and medicine. These researchers are all faculty at USF and members of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at MCC, which was rated Exceptional at the Center's most recent NCI Cancer Center Support Grant renewal. A key feature of this program has been the development and refinement of a specialized curriculum in cancer molecular epidemiology not otherwise available at our institution that is linked in an essential manner to the program's training goals and objectives. As described in the application, this specialized curriculum consists of a core curriculum required for both first- year and second-year trainees and an elective curriculum, designed to provide individualized training, that is selected by each trainee in consultation with his/her training committee. In our first award cycle, the program was successful in attracting a talented and diverse pool of applicants, recruiting the best applicants from this pool, and providing the recruited trainees with the skills, experiences, and mentoring necessary for becoming successful independent investigators in the field of molecular cancer of epidemiology.