Education and Outreach Unit

项目摘要-教育和外联股 我们根据物理科学实习生（研究生和博士后）的需求开发培训 进入癌症研究和癌症生物学学员采用物理科学的方法。培训 元素包括课堂教学，实验室为基础的迷你课程，和沉浸式体验。用于物理 科学培训生，重点是在现代癌症生物学获得坚实的基础（课程：癌症 工程师和物理科学），发展关键的实验室技能，这是不常见的物理 科学（微型课程：哺乳动物和原代细胞培养），并接触临床医学， 临床沉浸（Clinical Immersion）对于癌症生物学学员，目标是学习什么物理 科学方法使生物医学研究（课程：纳米生物技术），培养应用能力 这些方法（微型课程：表面改性，微流体，3D工程培养），并看到一个 工程实验室从内部（工程沉浸）。两组学员都参加了一个创新的， 学生主导的癌症代谢课程。其他项目旨在拓宽研究视角， 实习生我们举办PSOC系列研讨会，强调学员与演讲者的互动，以及 年度PSOC务虚会，使学员进入大局研究规划。通过与当地 病人的倡导者，我们的学员了解癌症患者的高优先级问题。我们还继续支持 由受训者发起的项目，如非常成功的癌症头脑风暴俱乐部，以及新的每月PSOC 咖啡时间与“内部规则”，鼓励学员与教师互动的大局科学问题。 我们的目标是准备PSOC学员在各种职业道路上取得成功，他们的技能是 有价值一些PSOC研讨会插槽将强调科学家在商业，政策， 以及这些活动如何对癌症产生积极影响。我们将与创新培训合作 计划，如康奈尔大学的NIH资助的科学培训拓宽经验，提供深入的 最后，我们的目标是广泛分发一些 这些培训材料。我们将继续在多个地点举行纳米生物技术课程的视频会议 并且可以添加额外的PSON参与者。工程师和物理科学家的癌症课程需要一个 创新的教学方法，适合物理科学家的动机和需求， 癌症研究。广泛提供这一课程将非常有价值。一本基于该课程的书是 即将完成，我们建议通过以下方式将课程转换为大规模开放式在线课程（MOOC） 康奈尔大学与edX的新合作伙伴关系。教育和外联股的活动与下列方面密切配合： 本提案中概述的具体研究目标以及更广泛的目标， 物理科学/工程与癌症生物学/肿瘤学之间的相互作用，促进了癌症研究。

Project Summary – Education and Outreach Unit We develop training tailored to the needs of physical science trainees (graduate student and post-doctoral) entering cancer research and to cancer biology trainees adopting physical science approaches. Training elements include classroom instruction, lab-based minicourses, and immersion experiences. For physical science trainees, the focus is on gaining a solid grounding in modern cancer biology (course: Cancer for Engineers and Physical Sciences), developing critical laboratory skills that are less common in the physical sciences (minicourses: mammalian and primary cell culture), and gaining exposure to clinical medicine and translational research (clinical immersion). For cancer biology trainees, the goal is to learn what physical science methods enable in biomedical research (course: Nanobiotechnology), develop aptitude in applying these approaches (minicourses: surface modification, microfluidics, 3D engineered culture), and seeing an engineering lab from the inside (engineering immersion). Both groups of trainees participate in an innovative, student-led course on metabolism in cancer. Other programs aim to broaden the research perspective of trainees. We host a PSOC seminar series that emphasizes trainee interactions with speakers as well as an annual PSOC retreat that brings trainees into big-picture research planning. Through interactions with local patient advocates, our trainees learn about high-priority issues for cancer patients. We also continue to support trainee-initiated programs, such as the very successful Cancer Brainstorming Club, and a new monthly PSOC coffee hour with “house rules” that encourage trainee interactions with faculty about big-picture science issues. We aim to prepare PSOC trainees to be successful in the wide variety of career paths where their skills are valuable. Some PSOC seminar slots will emphasize the role of scientists in business, policy, and communications and how those activities can positively impact cancer. We will partner with innovative training programs, such as Cornell's NIH-funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training, to provide in-depth professional development relevant to a trainee's chosen career path. Finally, we aim to broadly distribute some of these training materials. We will continue to videoconference the Nanobiotechnology course to multiple sites and can add additional PSON participants. The Cancer for Engineers and Physical Scientists course takes an innovative pedagogical approach that is tailored to the motivations and needs of physical scientists starting in cancer research. It would be very valuable for this course to be widely available. A book based on the course is near completion and we propose to convert the course to a massively open online course (MOOC) through Cornell's new partnership with edX. The activities of the Education and Outreach Unit are tightly aligned with both the specific research goals outlined in this proposal as well as with the broader aim to facilitate interactions between physical science/engineering and cancer biology/oncology that enhance cancer research.