Multidisciplinary Training in Cancer Research

癌症研究多学科培训

• 批准号: 7648188
• 负责人: ROBERT L ULLRICH
• 金额: $ 19.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7648188
• 关键词: Training; anticancer research; multidisciplinary

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our proposed training program is specifically focused on the multidisciplinary training of predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the field of cancer research. To achieve this goal we have developed an interdisciplinary cancer training program which will synthesize already established and successful programs in signal transduction, gene structure and function, receptor biology, DNA repair, structural biology, bioengineering and drug discovery with clinical exposure into one cohesive program. Students and fellows will receive laboratory training and didactic instruction from expert faculty actively involved in both basic science cancer research and leading edge clinical applications. Moreover, it is our goal that our students and fellows will also be trained to function as active members of the scientific community who can clearly communicate ideas, critically evaluate biomedical research and mentor others in scientific scholarship. We have assembled 31 training faculty from 9 different departments and multiple disciplines. This cohesive and collaborative group of basic researchers and clinician scientists who are dedicated to a lifetime of basic discovery and treatment of cancer patients. In the past 10 years our program faculty has trained 112 predoctoral and 180 postdoctoral fellows and has the experience as well as the interdisciplinary focus to guide this group of trainees to function in teams pursuing research in a truly multidisciplinary fashion. We want our students and fellows to be adept at utilizing traditionally hypothesis driven methods as well as discovery oriented experimental designs to explore these problems. The ultimate goal is to develop a cadre of future scientists who can participate at the intersection of molecular biology, genomics/proteomics, bioengineering and clinical care to become leaders in integrative and team approaches to understand the complex issues of cancer as it relates to potential prevention and innovative treatment strategies. In addition, UTMB is a national leader in the training of minority physicians, researchers and students and, therefore, another goal of our program is to utilize established programs to ensure that we are training individuals of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to better serve our diverse society.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出的培训计划是专门针对癌症研究领域的博士前学生和博士后研究员的多学科培训。为了实现这一目标，我们开发了一个跨学科的癌症培训计划，将信号转导，基因结构和功能，受体生物学，DNA修复，结构生物学，生物工程和药物发现与临床暴露合成一个有凝聚力的程序已经建立和成功的计划。学生和研究员将接受积极参与基础科学癌症研究和前沿临床应用的专家教师的实验室培训和教学指导。此外，我们的目标是，我们的学生和研究员也将接受培训，成为科学界的积极成员，他们可以清楚地传达思想，批判性地评估生物医学研究，并指导其他科学奖学金。 我们聚集了来自9个不同部门和多个学科的31名培训教师。这是一个由基础研究人员和临床科学家组成的具有凝聚力和协作性的团队，他们致力于癌症患者的基础发现和治疗。在过去的10年里，我们的计划教师已经培养了112名博士前和180名博士后研究员，并有经验以及跨学科的重点，以指导这群学员在团队中发挥作用，以真正的多学科方式进行研究。我们希望我们的学生和研究员能够善于利用传统的假设驱动的方法，以及发现为导向的实验设计来探索这些问题。最终目标是培养一批未来的科学家，他们可以参与分子生物学，基因组学/蛋白质组学，生物工程和临床护理的交叉领域，成为综合和团队方法的领导者，以了解癌症的复杂问题，因为它涉及潜在的预防和创新的治疗策略。此外，UTMB是少数民族医生，研究人员和学生培训的国家领导者，因此，我们计划的另一个目标是利用既定计划，以确保我们正在培训不同背景和种族的个人，以更好地服务于我们多元化的社会。