Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination

项目摘要/摘要 肯塔基大学的Markey癌症中心(MCC)共同提供了非常成功的 通过癌症研究培训和教育提供从K-12到教职员工级别的培训计划 协调(CRTEC)部分。MCC的CRTEC计划和活动是围绕特定目标构建的 为了：1)激发人们对癌症相关职业的早期兴趣，强调那些在科学界代表性不足的人；2) 促进多样化的癌症毕业生和博士后干部的教育和职业发展 研究人员；以及3)促进研究人员在基础、人口和临床/翻译方面的职业发展 科学。重要的教育活动解决了医学和教育领域的学术挑战 服务不足的阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州农村地区和代表不足的少数民族，通过五项赠款提供支持 其中包括NCI青年享受科学R25计划。这些努力是对有影响力的结构化工作的补充 研究生、博士后和住院医师级别的学术和研究培训，包括三个 NCI资助的T32培训补助金。通过新的倡议，如最近资助的NCI T32专注于 针对代表性不足和服务不足的健康股票和本科生研究计划 人口，MCC的CRTEC组件扩大了其综合培训范围，以实施大胆的多样性 补充成熟的和新兴的最先进的癌症课程并丰富MCC的计划 研究项目。建立由美国国立卫生研究院资助的可持续生物医学研究中心 具有专门癌症主题的杰出奖项和相关的初级教师指导增加了MCC的 长期存在的美国癌症学会机构研究资助早期教师和 在基础、人口和临床研究水平上建立有效的基于团队的教师指导机制 正在显著扩大MCC的外部资金基础。进一步有针对性地指导早期职业临床 研究人员通过临床试验训练营等机制促进 研究人员发起的将MCC科学转化为临床的试验。MCC附属网络提供了 为全州范围内最先进的癌症护理方面的卫生保健专业人员提供多方面培训的有效渠道， 这是解决肯塔基州和该地区巨大的癌症负担所必需的。一位富有的干部 研讨会、座谈会、会议和职业充实活动促进所有人成功的职业发展 从事癌症研究和临床实践的个人。MCC的集体努力利用了至关重要的 机构培训资源，以实现该方案的总体目标，即指导凝聚力 发展和协调跨学科的教育和辅导工作，并整合 他们在整个校园和全国范围内都做出了努力。通过MCC癌症中心支持的协调 支持赠款，这一全面的计划将继续发展创新的课程和战略联系 培训学员和教师为不断发展的癌症职业机会做准备的举措。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Markey Cancer Center (MCC) at the University of Kentucky collectively delivers highly successful training programs spanning from K-12 to faculty level through the Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) component. MCC’s CRTEC programs and activities are structured around specific aims to: 1) Generate early interest in cancer-related careers, emphasizing those underrepresented in science; 2) Promote education and career development of a diverse cadre of graduate and postdoctoral cancer researchers; and 3) Foster research faculty career development in basic, population and clinical/translational sciences. Key education activities address the academic challenges across medically and educationally underserved rural Appalachian Kentucky and for underrepresented minorities through support from five grants that include an NCI Youth Enjoy Science R25 program. These efforts complement impactful structured academic and research training at the graduate, postdoctoral and medical residency levels, including three NCI-funded T32 training grants. Through new initiatives such as the recently funded NCI T32 focused on health equities and undergraduate research programs targeting underrepresented and underserved populations, MCC’s CRTEC component expands its comprehensive training reach to implement bold diversity initiatives that complement well-established and emerging state-of-the-art cancer curricula and enrich MCC Research Programs. The establishment of sustainable NIH-funded Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence awards with dedicated cancer themes and associated junior faculty mentorship augment MCC’s long-standing American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant support for early-stage faculty and effective team-based faculty mentorship mechanisms across basic, population and clinical research levels that are significantly expanding MCC’s extramural funding base. Further targeted mentorship of early career clinical investigators through mechanisms such as the Clinical Trials Boot Camp fosters the development of investigator-initiated trials that translate MCC science to the clinic. The MCC Affiliate Network provides an effective conduit for multi-faceted statewide training of health care professionals in state-of-the-art cancer care, which is needed to address the tremendous cancer burden within Kentucky and the region. A rich cadre of seminars, symposia, meetings and career enrichment activities facilitate successful career development for all individuals engaged in cancer research and clinical practice. The MCC’s collective efforts draw on vital institutional training resources to achieve the overarching goals of this program, which are to guide cohesive growth and coordinate transdisciplinary education and mentoring endeavors across the MCC and integrate them with efforts campus-wide and nationally. Through coordination supported by MCC’s Cancer Center Support Grant, this comprehensive program will continue to evolve innovative curricula and strategically linked initiatives to prepare trainees and faculty for evolving cancer career opportunities.