2/2 Langston University-UNTHSC Partnership for Cancer Research and Education

项目概要（总体） 随着目前美国人口继续以目前的速度增长，2050年近50%的美国人口 将来自医疗服务不足的弱势群体有大量证据表明， 少数群体代表性不足（代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的个人， 残疾人和来自弱势背景的人）在各级生物医学劳动力（来自 本科生到教授）。种族/族裔人群显示发生率增加和/或 更具有侵袭性的疾病。即使考虑到社会经济和获得 某些癌症的护理因素、发病率和死亡率差异在种族/民族人群之间持续存在 类型最近的研究表明，这些不平等的癌症负担可能是由于一个复杂的生物学， 进行调查，以增加我们对癌症健康差异的基本了解。缺乏多样性 在医疗保健和研究的专业领域，努力治疗和消除健康差距， 存在于美国普遍存在的癌症中。该提案将侧重于促进 个人从事癌症研究和癌症的差距，通过发展研究所之间的伙伴关系， 北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心（UNTHSC）和兰斯顿大学的癌症研究 (LU)这是俄克拉荷马州唯一一所历史悠久的黑人大学。拟议伙伴关系的目标是促进 癌症相关研究、癌症研究经验和对本科生的癌症教育， 初级教员。每一项活动都将由岭大和联合国人类住区中心共同制定和实施。我们将 通过三个具体目标实现我们的目标：目标1）建立一个行政核心， 负责全面实施、管理和评估各项工作的成功与否。 目标2）促进跨学科和合作性癌症研究， 目标3）发展癌症研究 教育计划（CREP），为学生和初级教师提供癌症教育，癌症研究 经验，实验设计，跨专业教育（IPE）和健康差距。我们的期望是 通过实现我们的目标，我们将直接影响最终实现我们的目标，即建立一个长期的， 岭大与联合国人类住区中心建立长期伙伴关系，最终结果是获得多样化的人口 包括在与癌症相关的健康差异研究中代表性不足的人群。创新 拟议的伙伴关系计划的特点是（1）注重发展卓越的研究， 在代表性不足和处于不利地位的学者中，癌症和健康方面的专业性差距; (2)与跨专业培训计划和学术培训相结合的扩展主动辅导，以及（3） 发展跨学科的癌症研究团队。这些活动将对增加 URM和其他弱势群体在与癌症有关的健康差异研究方面取得的成功。

Project Summary (Overall) With the current US population continuing to grow at its current pace, nearly 50% of the US population in 2050 will be from medically underserved, vulnerable populations. Substantial evidence exists for the underrepresentation of minorities (individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities and from disadvantaged backgrounds) in all levels of the biomedical workforce (from the undergraduate level to the professoriate). Racial/ethnic populations demonstrate increased incidence and/or more aggressive disease for specific cancer types. Even when accounting for socioeconomic and access to care factors, incidence and mortality differences persist between racial/ethnic populations for some cancer types. Recent studies indicate that these unequal cancer burdens may be due to a complex biology that needs to be investigated to increase our basic understanding of cancer health disparities. There is a lack of diversity in the professional fields of healthcare and research, which strive to treat and eliminate the health disparities that exist in cancer prevalent throughout the United States. This proposal will focus on promoting diversity in individuals engaged cancer research and cancer disparities by developing a partnership between the Institute for Cancer Research at University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) and Langston University (LU), the only historically black college in Oklahoma. The Objective of the proposed partnership is to promote cancer-related research, cancer research experience and cancer education to undergraduate students and junior faculty. Each of the activities will be jointly developed and implemented at LU and UNTHSC. We will meet our objectives through three Specific Aims: Aim 1) Establish an Administrative Core (AC) that will be responsible for the overall implementation, management, and evaluation of the success of the various components of the partnership, Aim 2) Promote interdisciplinary and collaborative cancer research involving faculty from UNTHSC and LU, and support two pilot research projects, and Aim 3) Develop a Cancer Research Education Program (CREP) that provides students and junior faculty with cancer education, cancer research experiences, experimental design, interprofessional education (IPE) and health disparities. Our expectation is that by meeting our objectives, we will directly impact eventual achievement of our goal of establishing a long- term partnership between LU and UNTHSC with an ultimate outcome of obtaining a diverse population comprised of underrepresented populations in health disparity research related to cancer. Innovative features of proposed partnership program are (1) focus on the development of research excellence and professionalism in cancer and health disparities among the underrepresented and disadvantageous scholars; (2) extended active coaching integrated with interprofessional training programs and academic training, and (3) developing interdisciplinary cancer research teams. These activities will have a significant impact on increasing the success of URM and other disadvantaged groups in health disparity research related to cancer.