Career Development Award Program

耶鲁大学皮肤癌孢子职业发展奖励计划(CDAP)的目标是提高我们的能力，培养一支新的调查性皮肤肿瘤学家和科学家队伍，致力于多学科研究，调查生物发现与人类皮肤癌风险、预防、诊断、预后或治疗的相关性，并加强和关注已在该领域表现出兴趣和希望的个人的职业生涯。为孢子的这一部分申请的资金包括每年70,000美元，以及耶鲁大学癌症中心提供的50,000美元的匹配资金，用于支持每年两个教职员工级别的职业发展奖。资助期限为一年，但可能会续签第二年。这些奖项的潜在候选人既包括有前途的初级教员(要么已经在耶鲁任职，要么是耶鲁任命的外部候选人/新招聘人员)，也包括目前在耶鲁大学或正在被耶鲁大学招聘的老牌研究人员，他们之前的研究重点一直放在其他领域，但他们希望重新定位其皮肤肿瘤学转化研究的重要部分。所有初级教师奖获得者都与一名在转化性皮肤/肿瘤学方面有经验的调查员配对，该调查员也有成功指导的记录。在最初的五年供资周期中，YSPORE CDAP资金用于支持6名不同调查员的职业发展：四名调查员(包括一名妇女和一名西班牙裔)分别获得两年的支助，另外两名调查员将获得一年的支助。到目前为止，获得资助的人员具有不同的背景和以前的经验；2名博士、2名医学博士和2名医学博士/博士，经验范围从新招聘到耶鲁大学的黑色素瘤研究方面的老牌研究员，到重新专注于皮肤T细胞淋巴瘤的转译研究的老牌基础科学研究员，再到刚刚开始生物统计学、黑色素瘤和鳞状细胞癌研究生涯的初级教员。已经为下一个资金周期确定了一批同样不同的杰出的潜在未来CDAP获奖者。

The goal of the Career Development Award Program (CDAP) of the Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer is to enhance our capacity to develop a new cadre of investigative cutaneous oncologists and scientists committed to multidisciplinary studies investigating the relevance of biological discoveries in human skin cancer risk, prevention, diagnosis, prognosis or treatment, as well as to enhance and focus the careers of individuals who have already shown interest and promise in this field. Requested funding for this component of the SPORE includes $70,000 per year with $50,000 in "matching" funds from the Yale Cancer Center, to be used for the support of two faculty-level Career Development Awards per year. Funding is for one year, but may be renewed for a second year. Potential candidates for these awards include both promising junior faculty (either already holding appointments at Yale or outside candidates/new recruits for such Yale appointments), but also established Investigators, either currently at Yale or in the process of being recruited to Yale, whose previous research focus has been in other arenas, but who wish to re-orient a significant portion of their research on translational research in cutaneous oncology. All junior faculty awardees are paired with an established investigator in translational cutaneous/ oncology who also has a documented record of successful mentoring. During its initial five-year funding cycle, YSPORE CDAP funds were used to support the career development of 6 different investigators: four investigators (including one woman and one Hispanic) received support for two years each, while two others will have received support for one year each. Individuals supported to date have had diverse backgrounds and previous experience; 2 PhDs, 2 MDs, and 2 MD/PhDs, with experience ranging from an established investigator in melanoma research newly recruited to Yale, to an established basic science investigator refocusing on translational investigation in cutaneous T cell lymphoma, to junior faculty just embarking on investigative careers in biostatistics, melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma. A similarly diverse group of outstanding potential future CDAP awardees have been identified for the next funding cycle.