Moffitt Postdoctoral Training Program in Molecular Epidemiology

 描述(由申请人提供)：本建议书是根据PA-14-015(NCI院校研究培训补助金)提交的竞争性续签申请。根据计划公告，我们寻求继续为莫菲特癌症中心(MCC)癌症分子流行病学博士后培训计划提供资金，该计划于2010年根据R25T机制首次资助，在高度跨学科和协作性的癌症研究环境中培训博士后候选人。具体目标是：1)继续扩大和完善我们依赖课程的分子流行病学研究博士后培训计划，利用MCC和南佛罗里达大学(USF)的教员和资源；2)招聘一批有前途的学员，他们致力于癌症分子流行病学的研究；3)为这些学员提供必要的知识、技能、机会和指导，以成为成功的癌症分子流行病学独立研究者。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的教员，也是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癌症中心资助续签中被评为特殊项目。该计划的一个关键特点是开发和完善了癌症分子流行病学的专门课程，这是我们机构没有的，它以一种基本的方式与该计划的培训目标和目的相联系。如申请书所述，这一专业课程包括一年级和二年级学员所需的核心课程，以及一门旨在提供个性化培训的选修课程，由每名学员与其培训委员会协商选择。在我们的第一个奖项周期中，该计划成功地吸引了一批有才华的、多样化的申请者，从这个池中招募了最好的申请者，并为招募的受训者提供了成为分子癌症流行病学领域成功的独立研究人员所必需的技能、经验和指导。

 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.