Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目标是继续为5名博士前和5名博士后提供广泛的跨学科癌症研究培训。该项目资助的学员将与两名教师合作，他们的互补研究兴趣是基础科学、临床研究或人口科学。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。申请将根据研究项目、癌症相关性、跨学科培训潜力和申请人的资格进行评判。该培训项目是Fred Hutchinson癌症研究中心（FHCRC）和华盛顿大学（UW）跨学科癌症研究项目的核心。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。研究经验将得到资助和手稿写作培训、每月跨学科研究会议、各种各样的研讨会和非正式小组会议的支持。受训者将每年与资助指导委员会会面，并每年在研究研讨会上介绍他们的工作。指导委员会还将每年与导师举行会议，并监测跨学科培训部分。该计划的另一个组成部分是支持博士预科学生，他们将获得流行病学硕士学位，同时获得基础科学博士学位。华盛顿大学建立了正式的双学位课程，以有效的方式进行跨学科培训。学员将从目前在两所机构工作的博士后和博士生中招募，以及通过邮寄、全国会议信息摊位和我们的网站申请这个创新项目的学员中招募。

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 population based 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. Applications are judged on the research project, cancer relevance, interdisciplinary training potential and the applicants' qualifications. This training program is the centerpiece of an 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. The research experience will be supported by training in grant and manuscript writing, monthly interdisciplinary research meetings, a wide variety of seminars and informal group meetings. Trainees will meet annually with the grant Steering Committee and present their work annually at a research colloquium. The Steering Committee will also meet annually with mentors and monitor the interdisciplinary training components. An additional component of this program is support of predoctoral students who will obtain an M.S. degree in Epidemiology, concurrent with their Ph.D. training in a basic science. A formal Dual Degree program has been established at UW to allow this interdisciplinary training in an efficient manner. Trainees will be recruited both from the pool of pre- and postdoctoral trainees presently working at the two institutions, as well as from trainees who apply to this innovative program through mailings, informational booths at national meetings, and our web site. RELEVANCE: This interdisciplinary training program will increase the pool of cancer researchers with a broad knowledge of the causes and treatments of cancer using basic science, clinical and epidemiological tools. Such well trained scientists will be well poised to make breakthroughs in the eradication of this deadly disease.