Aging-Cancer Research Program Development at CWRU CCC

产品说明：（申请人的描述）凯斯西储大学（CWRU）建议在综合癌症中心内开发一项跨学科研究计划，该计划将整合衰老和癌症研究，目标是被公认为正式的衰老癌症“计划”，具有同行评审资金的稳定基础，包括资助的培训计划，到CCSG更新时，08/01/06。 “计划”的开发将通过利用癌症研究人员和老龄化研究人员的大量资源和专业知识来完成，这些研究人员与NCI资助的综合癌症中心，NIA资助的记忆和衰老中心以及VAMC资助的老年研究，教育和临床中心（GRECC）有关。 该计划还将利用来自CWRU的中心相关和非相关研究人员和教育工作者，包括医学，护理，艺术与科学和社会服务的学校，战略性地利用发展资金来支持教师招聘，试点项目扩展和共享资源的开发。 该“方案”将在治疗、疗效和耐受性、合并症的影响以及衰老和癌症的生物学等优先领域加强衰老-癌症研究。 “程序”的开发将由PI Nathan A.伯杰，医学博士，癌症中心的创始主任，谁最近完成了7年的任期作为医学院院长和医疗事务副总裁，和共同PI，杰罗姆科瓦尔，医学博士，老年医学副院长和国家免疫局资助的克劳德佩珀老年美国人独立中心和VAMC GRECC的创始主任。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) proposes to develop an interdisciplinary research initiative within the Comprehensive Cancer Center that will integrate aging and cancer research with the goal of being recognized as a formal Aging-Cancer "Program", with a stable base of peer-reviewed funding, including a funded training program, by the time of the CCSG renewal, 08/01/06. "Program" development will be accomplished by leveraging the considerable resources and expertise of cancer researchers and aging researchers associate with the NCI-funded Comprehensive Cancer Center, the NIA-funded Memory and Aging Center, and the VAMC-funded Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC). This initiative will also leverage Center-associated and non-associated researchers and educators from across CWRU including the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Arts & Sciences, and Social Services, strategically employing development funds to support faculty recruitment, pilot project expansion, and development of shared resources. The "Program" will develop enhanced Aging-Cancer research studies in the priority areas of treatment, efficacy and tolerance; effects of comorbidity; and the biology of aging and cancer. "Program" development will be mutually guided by the PI, Nathan A. Berger, MD, founding Director of the Cancer Center, who recently completed a 7 year term as Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs, and Co-PI, Jerome Kowal, MD, Associate Dean for Geriatric Medicine and founding Director of the NIA-funded Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and the VAMC GRECC.