Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Epidemiology at UB

布法罗大学癌症流行病学跨学科培训

• 批准号: 10005919
• 负责人: JO L. FREUDENHEIM
• 金额: $ 15.26万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005919
• 关键词: Training; cancer epidemiology

The nature of cancer research is changing exponentially, with significant alterations in paradigms developing out of swiftly changing technologies and analytic methods. Increasingly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to research have had enormous impact on cancer research. Epidemiology plays a significant and critical role in research on cancer prevention and control; that continued contribution is critically dependent on training new investigators grounded in epidemiologic methods, trained in cancer biology, skilled in interdisciplinary research and who have the ability to continue to adapt to a rapidly changing field. We propose here the continuation of an interdisciplinary training program in cancer prevention and control. This program was previously an R25 to train pre-doctoral fellows. With this transition to a T32, we propose to continue and advance that training program (four pre-doctoral slots per year; training for three years) and to expand to include the training of postdoctoral fellows (two slots per year; training for two years). The training program is a collaboration between the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health (EEH) at the University at Buffalo (UB) and the Departments of Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) and Health Behavior (HB) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). Led by Dr. Freudenheim at UB and Dr. Moysich at RPCI, the program brings together an outstanding group of investigators with a strong record of funded research and research mentoring. The mentors provide access to their own, well developed, cutting edge cancer-focused research programs as well as access to large datasets and previously collected biological samples and networks of collaborators. UB and RPCI provide a wealth of resources including coursework, seminars, journal clubs and work in progress groups. All fellows develop an individual training plan, working under the advisement of their mentors. They are all part of an interdisciplinary team that includes mentoring from at least one epidemiologist and at least one investigator from another discipline (e.g., toxicology, oncology, immunology, health behavior). In the R25 training program, funded for the last nine years, we have been able to recruit an outstanding and diverse group of fellows who have been very successful, taking part in a wealth of career development activities, presenting at conferences, publishing manuscripts and going on to excellent research intensive positions. Together, UB and RPCI provide for outstanding opportunities for strong training in epidemiologic methods and biostatistics, and cancer biology. The long-term goal of this program is to train scientists with expertise in cancer prevention and control, and the skills to continue to adapt to new technologies and approaches and work effectively in teams to incorporate new insights from other disciplines so that they can successfully contribute to cancer prevention and control, doing research that translates to improve public health.

癌症研究的性质正在发生指数级的变化，发展中的范式发生了重大变化 来自日新月异的技术和分析方法。越来越多的跨学科和跨学科 研究方法对癌症研究产生了巨大的影响。流行病学发挥着重要的作用 在癌症预防和控制研究中发挥关键作用；这种持续贡献严重依赖于 培训新的研究人员，掌握流行病学方法，接受癌症生物学培训，熟练掌握 从事跨学科研究，并有能力继续适应快速变化的领域。我们建议 在这里，继续进行癌症预防和控制方面的跨学科培训计划。本节目 之前是一架R25，用于培训博士前研究员。随着向T32的过渡，我们建议继续并 推进培训方案(每年四个博士前时段；培训三年)，并扩大到 包括对博士后研究员的培训(每年两个名额；培训两年)。培训计划是一项 香港大学流行病学与环境卫生系之间的合作 水牛城(UB)和癌症预防与控制(CPC)和健康行为(HB)部门 罗斯威尔公园癌症研究所(RPCI)。该项目由UB的弗洛伊登海姆博士和RPCI的莫伊西奇博士领导 汇聚了一批优秀的研究人员，他们在资助研究和研究方面有着良好的记录 辅导。导师们提供他们自己的、发展良好的、以癌症为重点的尖端研究的途径 计划以及访问大型数据集和以前收集的生物样本和网络 合作者。UB和RPCI提供丰富的资源，包括课程作业、研讨会、期刊俱乐部和 进行中工作小组。所有研究员都制定了个人培训计划，在他们的建议下工作 导师。他们都是一个跨学科团队的一部分，该团队包括至少一位流行病学家的指导 以及至少一名来自另一学科(例如，毒理学、肿瘤学、免疫学、健康行为学)的研究人员。 在过去九年资助的R25培训计划中，我们能够招聘到一名优秀的和 一群非常成功的研究员，他们参与了丰富的职业发展 活动，在会议上发表演讲，发表手稿，并继续进行出色的研究 各就各位。UB和RPCI共同为加强流行病学培训提供了绝佳的机会 方法和生物统计学，以及癌症生物学。该计划的长期目标是培养具有以下能力的科学家 在癌症预防和控制方面的专业知识，以及继续适应新技术和 方法，并在团队中有效地工作，以纳入来自其他学科的新见解，以便他们能够 成功地为癌症预防和控制做出贡献，进行研究，转化为改善公众 健康。