Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请是一份申请 罗伯特·H·卢里综合癌症中心继续资助T32 CA70085 西北大学中心。癌症中心的资金来自一项支持 来自NCI的赠款(P30 CA60553)。此外，癌症中心已经收到了 两个孢子赠款[乳腺癌中的孢子(P50 CA89018)和前列腺癌中的孢子 癌症(P50 CA90386)]来自NCI。信号专业的培训计划 转导与癌症将主要研究人员和 博士后研究员，专注于激素、受体、生长 影响因素和信号转导途径。这是通过以下方式实现的 组织会议、期刊俱乐部、研讨会和座谈会。这些活动 提供更多分享最新科学成果的机会和 促进互动增加。这些教官都是由美国国立卫生研究院资助的 研究人员和他们属于癌症的所有四个基础科学项目 中心：病毒致癌；肿瘤侵袭、转移和血管生成； 信号转导与癌症；癌症基因与分子调控。 该方案已成功培训了13名博士后研究员，其中包括2名 少数民族实习生，在过去的五年里。学员参加 教育活动(实验室会议、期刊俱乐部、研讨会、座谈会) 除了他们的实验室研究之外，他们还与该计划有关。五 学员成功地争取到了国家外部资金(美国国立卫生研究院和 国防部)。已经投入了大量的努力来招募 为该计划增加少数族裔学生。广告已经贴好了 发表在《科学》杂志和美国癌症研究协会上 会议和内分泌学会会议。基于我们对我们的期望 我们将保持同一批高素质的申请者 请求继续为每年的四个博士后职位提供资金 在本申请中的期限为五年。这将使我们能够 继续进行信号转导和癌症方面的博士后培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a request for continued funding of T32 CA70085 at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. The Cancer Center is funded by a support grant from the NCI (P30 CA60553). In addition, the Cancer Center has received two SPORE grants [SPORE in Breast Cancer (P50 CA89018) and SPORE in Prostate Cancer (P50 CA90386)] from the NCI. The Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer brings together principal investigators and postdoctoral fellows with a focused interest in hormones, receptors, growth factors and signal transduction pathways. This has been accomplished through organized meetings, journal clubs and seminars and symposia. These activities provide enhanced opportunities for sharing the latest scientific results and promote increased interactions. The preceptors are all established NIH funded investigators and they belong to all four basic science programs of the Cancer Center: Viral Oncogenesis; Tumor Invasion, Metastasis and Angiogenesis; Signal Transduction and Cancer; and Cancer Genes and Molecular Regulation. The Program has successfully trained 13 postdoctoral fellows, including two minority trainees, during the last five years. Trainees attend the educational activities (laboratory meetings, journal club, seminars, symposia) associated with the Program in addition to their laboratory research. Five trainees successfully competed for extramural national funding (NIH and Department of Defense). Significant effort has been invested to recruit additional minority students to the Program. Advertisements have been placed in the journal Science and at the American Association for Cancer Research Meeting and the Endocrine Society Meeting. Based on our expectation that we will maintain the same candidate pool of highly qualified applicants we request continued funding for the four postdoctoral positions per year for a period of five years in the present application. This will enable us to continue focused postdoctoral training in Signal Transduction and Cancer.