Howard/Hopkins Cancer Centers Partnership

霍华德大学癌症中心（HUCC）和约翰霍普金斯大学的Sidney Kimmel综合癌症中心（SKCCC）、马里兰州和哥伦比亚特区所服务的地区，50多年来一直是美国癌症死亡率最高的地区之一。这些地区的少数民族居民受到癌症的影响不成比例，癌症已成为巴尔的摩、马里兰州和华盛顿特区非洲裔美国人发病和死亡的主要原因。为了解决这一问题，HUCC和SKCCC开始建立伙伴关系，以增加与癌症有关的筛查、诊断、预防、治疗和支持性护理方面的富有成效的研究，特别关注非洲裔美国人的癌症。到目前为止，huc /SKCCC伙伴关系取得了成功，在包括前列腺癌、胃肠癌和乳腺癌在内的几个领域取得了合作研究进展，促使提交这项续期申请，试图获得资金以进一步扩大这一伙伴关系的活动。这项拨款提案的主要目的是继续发展huc和SKCCC之间的可持续伙伴关系，以加强两所机构的研究，培训，教育和外展任务。为了实现这一目标，HUCC/SKCCC合作伙伴关系将致力于在HUCC建立针对非洲裔美国人癌症的研究师资队伍和科学项目，加强涉及非洲裔美国人的SKCCC基于人群的癌症研究，增加HUCC非洲裔美国人癌症研究人员的研究培训和职业发展机会，并改善SKCCC以非洲裔美国人癌症发病率和死亡率为重点的教育和推广项目。该建议寻求支持3个完整的研究项目，2个试点研究项目，2个试点培训/教育项目

The regions served by the Howard University Cancer Center (HUCC) and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins (SKCCC), Maryland and the District of Columbia, have had among the highest cancer death rates in the United States for more than fifty years. Minority residents of these region have been disproportionately affected by cancer, and cancer has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality for African-Americans in both Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. To address this problem, HUCC and SKCCC have embarked on a partnership to increase productive research in screening, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and supportive care as it relates to cancer, with a special focus on cancer in African-Americans. The successes realized thus far in the HUCC/SKCCC Partnership, with collaborative research progress in several areas, including prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, and breast cancer, has prompted the submission of this renewal in attempt to secure funds to further augment this partnerships activities. The major aim of this grant proposal is to continue the development of a sustainable partnership between HUCC and SKCCC that enhances the research, training, education, and outreach missions of both institutions. To accomplish this goal, the HUCC/SKCCC Partnership will work to build the research faculty and scientific programs at HUCC directed at cancer in African-Americans, to enhance population-based cancer studies at SKCCC involving African-Americans, to increase opportunities for research training and career development of African-American cancer researchers at HUCC, and to improve education and outreach programs at SKCCC focused on cancer morbidity and mortality among African-Americans. The proposal seeks support for 3 full research projects, 2 pilot research projects, 2 pilot training/educational programs, and core infrastructure at HUCC and SKCCC. Over the 5 years of support requested for the HUCC/SKCCC Partnership, as these initial research and educational activities progress to compete for independent funding, new projects, programs, and resources of high priority for development will be identified and supported.