Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research Training Grant

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目的目标是继续为5名博士后和5名博士后提供基础广泛的跨学科癌症研究培训。由该项目资助的实习生将与两名教师合作，他们的互补研究兴趣在于基础科学、临床研究或基于人口的科学。为了通过这一培训赠款获得资金，研究员必须提交与癌症病因或治疗相关的研究建议，这些建议利用了两个或两个以上学科的专业知识。申请是根据研究项目、癌症相关性、跨学科培训潜力和申请者的资质进行评判的。该培训计划是弗雷德·哈钦森癌症研究中心(FHCRC)和华盛顿大学(UW)跨学科癌症研究计划的核心。长期目标是增加在迅速扩大的与癌症和其他人类疾病相关的生物医学科学知识库的跨学科应用方面拥有培训和专业知识的研究人员队伍。研究经验将得到赠款和手稿写作方面的培训、每月跨学科研究会议、各种研讨会和非正式小组会议的支持。受训者将每年与赠款指导委员会会面，并在每年的研究座谈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前学生，他们将在基础科学博士培训的同时获得流行病学硕士学位。威斯康星大学已经建立了正式的双学位课程，以有效地进行这种跨学科培训。实习生将从目前在这两个机构工作的博士后和博士后实习生中招募，也将从通过邮件、全国会议上的信息摊位和我们的网站申请这一创新计划的实习生中招募。 相关性：这一跨学科培训计划将利用基础科学、临床和流行病学工具，增加对癌症病因和治疗有广泛知识的癌症研究人员队伍。这些训练有素的科学家将做好准备，在根除这种致命疾病方面取得突破。

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.