Interdisciplinary Tranining in Cancer Research

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目标是继续为5名博士生和5名博士后提供广泛的跨学科癌症研究培训。由该计划资助的学员将与两名教师一起工作，他们的互补研究兴趣是基础科学、临床研究或公共卫生科学。为了通过这项培训基金获得资助，研究员必须提交与癌症病因学或治疗相关的研究提案，并利用两个或多个学科的专业知识，并确定两名同意监督该项目的导师。该培训项目是Fred Hutchinson癌症研究中心（FHCRC）和华盛顿大学（UW）跨学科癌症研究总体倡议的核心。长期目标是增加在与癌症和其他人类疾病有关的迅速扩大的生物医学科学知识库的跨学科应用方面受过培训和具有专门知识的研究人员的数量。这种跨学科培训的例子是，基础科学专业的学生有两名顾问，一名是基础科学家，一名是流行病学家，或者临床研究员也有一名基础科学或公共卫生科学顾问，负责部分工作。研究经验将从两个机构提供的适合个别受训者需要的广泛教学培训机会中进行选择，包括研究会议、课程、期刊俱乐部和研讨会。所有受训者将在每年的研究研讨会上介绍他们的工作。该计划的另一个组成部分是支持希望获得流行病学硕士学位并同时获得基础科学博士学位的博士预科学生。华盛顿大学已经建立了一个并行的双学位课程，以有效的方式进行这种跨学科的培训。学员将从目前在两所院校工作的博士生和博士后学员中招聘。此外，受训者可以通过一个专门针对双重导师项目的网站了解具体的跨学科研究机会。该网站及其项目将在当地和全国范围内进行宣传，以便其他机构的博士后学员也可以申请该计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this program is to continue to provide broad based interdisciplinary cancer research training for five predoctoral and five postdoctoral fellows. Trainees funded by this program will work with two faculty members whose complementary research interests lie in basic sciences, clinical research or public health sciences. In order to obtain funding through this training grant, fellows must submit research proposals relevant to the etiology or treatment of cancer that draw upon expertise found in two or more disciplines and identify two mentors who agree to supervise the project. This training program is the centerpiece of an overall initiative in interdisciplinary cancer research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and the University of Washington (UW). The long-term goal is to increase the pool of investigators who have training and expertise in cross-disciplinary applications of the rapidly expanding knowledge base in biomedical science relevant to cancer and other human diseases. Examples of such cross disciplinary training are basic science students who have two advisors who are a basic scientist and an epidemiologist, or clinical fellows who also have a basic science or a public health science advisor for portions of the work. The research experience will be supported by selection from a wide range of didactic training opportunities appropriate to the needs of the individual trainee and available at the two institutions, including research meetings, classes, journal clubs and seminars. All trainees will present their work annually at a research colloquium. An additional component of this program is support of predoctoral students who wish to obtain an M.S. degree in Epidemiology, concurrent with a Ph.D. in a basic science. A concurrent Dual Degree program has been established at the University of Washington to allow this type of interdisciplinary training in an efficient manner. Trainees will be recruited from the pool of predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees presently working at the two institutions. In addition, trainees can learn about specific interdisciplinary research opportunities through a web site devoted to dual mentor projects. This web site, and the projects therein, will be advertised locally and nationally, so that postdoctoral trainees from other institutions can also apply to the program.