TRAINING PROGRAM IN CANCER BIOLOGY

产品说明：项目特点：本申请是更新申请的修订版，要求继续支持德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的癌症生物学培训计划，以提供肿瘤生物学基础多学科研究的博士前培训。 主要目标是培养优秀的科学家，他们随后将在肿瘤生物学方面进行成功的独立研究。培训重点来自培训教师的优势，将在化学和病毒致癌，免疫学，细胞和分子生物学领域。 学员将从谁在微生物学系，分子生物学计划，生物科学研究生课程的得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的研究生院的部门录取的学生。 所有受训人员将被要求参加细胞和分子生物学核心系列课程，并完成免疫生物学、肿瘤生物学基础、病毒学和致癌机制方面的研究生课程。学员还将参加研究技术以及致癌作用和肿瘤生物学各个方面的简短、高度集中的课程。 过去的课程包括转录控制，RNA加工，癌基因和信号。受训人员也有机会参加在科罗拉多的Keystone举办的NCI肿瘤生物学课程。

DESCRIPTION: Program Characteristics: This application is a revision of a renewal application requesting continuing support for a cancer biology training program at the University of Texas at Austin to provide predoctoral training in basic multidisciplinary research in tumor biology. The major goal is to train excellent scientists who will subsequently pursue successful independent research in tumor biology. Training emphasis derives from the strengths of the training faculty and will be in the areas of chemical and viral carcinogenesis, immunology, and cellular and molecular biology. Trainees will be drawn from students who have matriculated in the Department of Microbiology, the Molecular Biology Program, and the Division of Biological Sciences Graduate Programs of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin. All trainees will be required to take a core series of courses in cell and molecular biology and to complete graduate level courses in immunobiology, fundamentals of tumor biology, virology, and mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Trainees will also participate in short, highly focused courses in research techniques and in various aspects of carcinogenesis and tumor biology. Past courses have included transcriptional control, RNA processing, oncogenes and signalling. Opportunities also exist for trainees to attend the NCI-sponsored tumor biology course at Keystone, Colorado.