Training Program in Molecular Oncology and Immunology

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求资金继续支持在分子肿瘤学和免疫学领域培训7名博士前和8名博士后研究员（博士或医学博士）。特别强调的是放在这些学科的综合教育，以更好地了解参与细胞转化和免疫细胞反应的调控机制。这些学科的交叉可以开发全新的方法来研究癌基因和正常状态或肿瘤中的免疫细胞，并促进癌症转化研究的发展。该计划的独特之处在于，学员必须精通免疫学和分子肿瘤学的基础知识;然后，学生将专注于这两个领域之一，重点关注癌症相关项目。来自病理学，细胞生物学，生物化学，药理学，医学，放射肿瘤学，皮肤病学，放射学和微生物学系的38名教员参加了这个项目。该项目由萨克勒基础医学研究所和纽约大学癌症研究所共同赞助，并随着Skirball生物分子医学研究所和A.免疫学钻石教授。它将继续扩大与开放的Smilow建设，目前正在建设中，并将致力于其三个楼层的癌症研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests funds to continue support for training of 7 predoctoral and 8 postdoctoral fellows (PhD or MD) in the areas of molecular oncology and immunology. Particular emphasis is placed on a combined education in these disciplines for a better understanding of the regulatory mechanisms involved in cellular transformation and immunological cell response. Cross-fertilization of these disciplines allows development of entirely new approaches to studies both of oncogenes and of immunologically cells in its normal state or in tumors and fosters the development of translational research in cancer. The unique aspects of this program is that the trainees are required to become proficient in the basics of both immunology and molecular oncology; the students are then directed to focus in one of these two areas with strong emphasis on cancer related projects. Thirty-eight faculty members from the Departments of Pathology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Dermatology, Radiology and Microbiology participate in this program. The program is under the aegis of both the Sackler Institute for Basic Medical Sciences and the NYU Cancer Institute and has expanded with the new faculty recruited for the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and the A. Diamond Professorships in Immunology. It will continue to expand with opening of the Smilow building, presently under construction, and which will dedicate three of its floors to cancer research.