POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY

描述(申请人的描述)：儿科肿瘤学奖学金 科罗拉多大学健康科学中心(UCHSC)和 丹佛儿童医院拥有超过25年的杰出历史 好几年了。在1993年，大量新的资源专门用于发展。 这项计划的实施，导致了骨髓移植的建立 单位、神经肿瘤学服务和基础科学家的核心小组。在……里面 此外，扩大了研究金方案，并向研究员提供 有机会在UCHSC系统中的任何实验室进行研究。 目前，23个培训学院代表了广泛的科学 学科包括细胞周期控制和信号传递，转录 调节和剪接、病毒学和免疫学。这些不同的学科 并通过使用分子方法来统一方法以解决 基本的生物学问题，以及它们对 肿瘤学研究。由于临床经验的广泛性， 儿童医院良好的临床口碑和新的研究 机会可用，自1993年以来，奖学金候选人一直 在质量和对学术事业的奉献方面有所提高。最小的 奖学金为期三年，第一年仅限于临床 训练。目前该方案有10名研究员，他们都有 之前完成了儿科住院医师培训，其中9人参加了研究培训 超过了他们的第一个临床研究年限。这项提案寻求资金用于 那些选择从事与儿科肿瘤学相关的研究的研究员 团契的第二和第三年。虽然是一个新的应用程序， 无论是历史还是最近的发展都标志着这一培训计划是 全国最好的。事实上，自1982年以来，该计划的25名研究员中有17名 都进入了学术医学职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Description): The Pediatric Oncology Fellowship Program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) and Denver Children's Hospital, has a distinguished history spanning over 25 years. In 1993, substantial new resources were dedicated to the development of this Program, leading to the establishment of a Bone Marrow Transplant unit, Neuro-oncology service, and a core group of basic scientists. In addition, the fellowship program was expanded and fellows were given the opportunity to perform research in any laboratory in the UCHSC system. P r esently 23 Training Faculty represent a broad range of scientific disciplines including cell cycle control and signaling, transcriptional regulation and splicing, virology, and immunology. These diverse disciplines and approaches are unified by use of molecular approaches to address fundamental biological questions, and by their applicability to problems in oncology research. Because of the breadth of the clinical experience, the fine clinical reputation of the Children's Hospital, and the new research opportunities available, fellowship candidates since 1993 have consistently increased in quality and dedication to an academic career. The minimal fellowship duration is three years, with the first year exclusively clinical training. Currently there are 10 fellows in the Program, all of whom have previously completed their Pediatric residencies, with 9 in research training beyond their first clinical fellowship year. This proposal seeks funding for those fellows who elect to pursue research related to Pediatric Oncology in the second and third years of the fellowship. Although a new application, both history and recent developments mark this training program as one of the best in the nation. Indeed since 1982, 17 of 25 fellows from this Program have entered academic medicine careers.