Outreach and Dissemination Unit

MC-START将包括一个外联和传播股(ODU)，该股将开发和实施知识转化战略，以最大限度地利用MC-START的研究发现，使关键利益相关者(癌症生物学家、物理学家、工程师、临床医生、潜在的工业合作伙伴)受益。我们将根据社会科学中已有的、被描述为“创新扩散”过程的阶段来实施我们的传播活动。为了进一步促进外展工作 为了向癌症生物和物理科学界进行宣传和传播，ODU将每年举办两次系列研讨会，每次研讨会为期两天，讨论与PS-OC计划直接相关的主题。ODU的工作人员将在冷泉港实验室的班伯里会议中心和南加州大学戴维森执行会议中心组织这些研讨会。拥有这两种方法的好处是，创新的概念整合和新颖的视角是在更亲密的情况下发展出来的 班伯里研讨会可以通过第二次研讨会系列传播到更广泛的物理科学、工程学、癌症生物学和临床社区。南加州大学戴维森行政会议中心的使用将确保“西海岸”的外展，并将有效补充ODU班伯里研讨会系列的“东海岸”外展。该系列研讨会的目标是物理科学、癌症生物学和工程学方面的研究人员，是MC-START项目和 参与实验室。毒品和犯罪问题办公室将采用各种战略来制定试点项目，并引进MC-START以外的专门知识，以加强其具体的研究活动。这些措施包括：(1)在两个研讨会系列中的每个研讨会期间举行特别会议，初级和高级研究人员可以为挑战传统教条的实验提出新的想法，并建议利用物理、数学、化学和工程学的原理来检查癌症。这些“将物理科学和工程与癌症生物学联系起来(LIPSENC)”课程预计将孵化试点项目，这些项目可以 在MC-START进行。ODU将监督一个客座调查员计划，将这些研究人员及其专业知识引入MC-Start。中心咨询委员会(CAC)批准的大约10,000美元的小额资金将用于小规模试点，为MC-START内可开展的未来试点研究提供有趣的数据和假设。

MC-START will include an Outreach & Dissemination Unit (ODU) that will develop and implement a knowledge translation strategy to maximize utilization of MC-START research discoveries to key stakeholders (cancer biologists, physical scientists, engineers, clinicians, potential industrial partners). We will implement our dissemination activities based on the stages that have been well characterized in the social sciences and described as the "diffusion of innovations" process. In order to further facilitate outreach and dissemination to the cancer biological and physical sciences communities, ODU will implement two yearly seminar series that will each consist of two-day seminars on topics of direct relevance to the PS-OC program. ODU staff will organize these seminars at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Banbury Conference Center and at the Davidson Executive Conference Center at USC. The advantage of having both approaches is that innovative conceptual integrations and novel perspectives developed at the more intimate Banbury seminar can be diffused to the broader physical science, engineering, cancer biology and clinical communities through this second seminar series. Utilization of the Davidson Executive Conference Center at USC will assure "West Coast" outreach and will effectively complement the "East Coast" outreach of ODU's Banbury seminar series. The seminar series, which targets researchers in the physical sciences, cancer biology and engineering, is a natural extension of the Specific Aims of the MC-START projects and participating laboratories. ODU will employ a variety of strategies to develop pilot projects and bring in expertise outside of MC-START to enhance its specific research activities. These include: (1) special sessions during each of the two seminar series in which junior and senior investigators can present novel ideas for experiments that challenge traditional dogmas and which propose to leverage principles from physics, mathematics, chremistry and engineering to examine cancer. These "Linking Physical Sciences & Engineering With Cancer Biology (LIPSENC)" sessions are expected to incubate pilot projects that can be conducted at MC-START. ODU will oversee a Guest Investigator program to bring in these researchers -and their expertise - into MC-START. Small amounts of funding on the order of ~$10,000 approved by the Center Advisory Committee (CAC) will be provided for small scale pilots that generate interesting data and hypotheses for future pilot studies that can be carried out within MC-START.