Career Enhancement Program

项目摘要 DF/HCC GI SPORE职业提升计划（CEP）旨在提供资源、结构和 鼓励吸引和支持初级研究人员从事GI的基础、转化和临床研究 癌的总体目标是培养GI中有才华的新研究人员的成功和生产力 癌症，促进他们对该领域的持续兴趣和贡献，并加强GI孢子 通过接触新的想法和人才。CEP推动了独立研究 通过三种并行的方法促进初级教师的职业发展：（a）提供研究支持和接触 建立GI SPORE调查员;（B）通过一对一和 基于委员会的指导;以及（c）获得促进临床组织样本使用的核心资源， 基因组数据、实验模型系统以及精细的统计和计算分析。在这些 在这方面，CEP特别努力吸引少数民族和女性调查员到实地工作。过去 在资助周期内，CEP支持了19名高素质的年轻研究人员，他们在短期内取得了 在胃肠道癌症方面的杰出研究和职业发展;超过一半的获奖者才华横溢 妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。GI孢子的成员和领导层有一个实质性的 在初级教师的指导记录;在过去10年中支持的20多名调查人员现在 在领先的机构和癌症中心的GI癌症研究中担任终身教职或终身教职。 CEP遵循严格，公平和透明的程序来识别，选择和指导最优秀的人 来自DF/HCC所有成员机构的年轻人。管治及检讨委员会- 由杰出的高级导师领导，他们代表了一个 在转化型胃肠道癌症研究中的成功计划-确保最佳的候选人选择，支持， 个人和项目监督。CEP的具体目标是 1)培养和维护一个高效、公平和成功的系统，以识别有前途的年轻研究人员 寻求成为转化型GI癌症研究的独立研究者; 2）提供资金， 其他支援资源，同时密切监察得奖者的研究进度及计划 成功; 3）促进指导环境，使CEP获奖者的职业发展， 以及其他初级教师;和4）培养下一代的领导人在翻译研究 不同的胃肠道癌症，包括妇女和代表性不足的种族和少数民族群体的成员。

Project Summary The DF/HCC GI SPORE Career Enhancement Program (CEP) aims to provide resources, structure, and incentives to attract and support junior investigators in basic, translational, and clinical research on GI cancers. The overarching goal is to nurture the success and productivity of talented new researchers in GI cancers, promote their sustained interest and contributions to the field, and to enhance the GI SPORE community through contact with fresh ideas and talent. The CEP advances the independent research careers of junior faculty through three parallel approaches: (a) providing research support and exposure to established GI SPORE investigators; (b) helping refine projects and career goals through one-on-one and committee-based mentoring; and (c) access to Core resources that facilitate use of clinical tissue samples, genomic data, experimental model systems, and refined statistical and computational analyses. In these endeavors, the CEP specifically strives to attract minority and female investigators to the field. Over the past funding cycle, the CEP supported 19 highly qualified young investigators who have in short order made exceptional research and career advances in GI cancers; more than half these awardees are talented women and underrepresented minorities. The members and leadership of the GI SPORE have a substantial record in mentorship of junior faculty; more than 20 investigators supported over the last 10 years are now in tenure-track or tenured faculty positions in GI cancer research at leading institutions and cancer centers. The CEP follows a rigorous, equitable, and transparent process to identify, select, and mentor the finest young individuals drawn from all DF/HCC member institutions. The Governance and Review Committee – led by outstanding senior mentors who represent the diversity of expertise and approaches required for a successful program in translational GI cancer research – ensures optimal candidate selection, support, and both individual and Program oversight. The Specific Aims of the CEP are 1) Cultivate and maintain an efficient, fair, and successful system to identify promising young investigators seeking to become independent investigators in translational GI cancer research; 2) Provide funding and other supportive resources, while closely monitoring awardees' research progress and programmatic success; 3) Promote a mentoring environment that enables the career development of CEP awardees as well as other junior faculty; and 4) Develop the next generation of leaders in translational investigation of diverse GI cancers, including women and members of under-represented racial and ethnic minority groups.