Training Program in Cancer Population Science (CaPS)

该申请旨在资助一个新的癌症人口科学（CaPS）博士后培训计划， 乔治敦大学和乔治敦隆巴迪综合癌症中心。CAPS的总体目标 该计划旨在培养癌症人口科学的未来领导者，他们将把基础和临床进展转化为 诊所社区和政策这个博士后项目提供双导师跨学科培训 以核心能力为核心，整合新技术、新方法， 方法，利用知识整合为政策和护理提供信息， 团队科学方法，整合癌症生物学和特定领域的专业知识。21小学教师 领导由大量同行评审资金支持的积极研究项目，并提供广泛的指导 应用这些核心能力的博士后水平经验。教师代表九 乔治城大学的各个部门/研究所，强调了对转化癌的重视 人口科学目标是：1）利用我们成功的基础设施，招募和留住一批多元化的 有前途的人口科学家; 2）实施互补的共同指导和个性化发展 计划，跨越至少两个阶段的翻译连续体，正式和非正式的教学， 促进核心能力的获得，以成功地过渡到下一个职业阶段; 3）评估 在受训者和项目层面开展培训工作，以确保可持续的癌症人群科学培训 计划在首都。我们的前所未有的增长激励我们创建这个新计划 了解癌症发展和进展中的分子事件以及 这些进程的主机和环境。这一新的和不断增长的知识基础是在 在美国人口日益多样化的背景下，癌症风险的差异和接受基于证据的 筛查和治疗、社会老龄化模式以及不断发展的医疗保健提供模式。移动领域 癌症人口科学的未来将需要提高我们将基础和临床进展转化为 人口、社区和政策。下一代科学家必须接受培训以迎接这一挑战 有专门的知识从事翻译研究。

This application seeks funding for a new Cancer Population Science (CaPS) Postdoctoral Training Program at Georgetown University and Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The overall goal of the CaPS Program is to train future leaders in cancer population science who will translate basic and clinical advances into the clinic, communities and policy. This postdoctoral program provides dual-mentored transdisciplinary training centered around core competencies—integrating novel technologies and methods, applying multilevel approaches, using knowledge integration to inform policies and care, and addressing health disparities—using a team science approach and integrating cancer biology and domain-specific expertise. The 21 Primary Faculty lead active research programs supported by substantial peer-reviewed funds, with extensive mentoring experience at the postdoctoral level that apply these core competencies. The faculty represent nine departments/institutes across Georgetown University, underscoring the emphasis on translational cancer population science. Aims are to: 1) leverage our successful infrastructure to recruit and retain a diverse group of promising population scientists; 2) implement complementary co-mentorship and individualized development plans that cut across at least two phases of the translational continuum, with formal and informal didactics to facilitate the acquisition of core competencies to transition successfully to the next career stage; and 3) evaluate training efforts at the trainee and program level to ensure a sustainable cancer population science training program in the Nation’s capital. We are motivated to create this new program by unprecedented growth in our understanding of molecular events in cancer development and progression and the multilevel influences of the host and environment on these processes. This new and growing knowledge base has evolved against the backdrop of an increasingly diverse US population, disparities in cancer risk and receipt of evidence-based screening and treatment, societal aging patterns, and evolving models of healthcare delivery. Moving the field of cancer population science forward will require enhancing our ability to translate basic and clinical advances into populations, communities and policy. The next generation of scientists must be trained to meet this challenge with specific expertise to embark on translational research.