Developmental Funds

在癌症中心支持补助金的下一个5年周期中，Kimmel癌症中心每年要求大约40万美元的发展基金。这些资金是KCC灵活资金的重要来源，并为新教师的招聘和试点项目资金提供了重要的支持来源。在下一个周期，所要求的所有资金将仅用于这些目的。 中心范围内的招聘需求已确定在四个领域：结构生物学，辐射研究和转化生物学，生殖泌尿系统癌症，癌症遗传学。发展基金将使这些领域的征聘工作成为可能，这不仅将加强具体的需求领域，而且还将加强方案内和方案间的合作。在发展基金的支持下，上一个周期确定的试点项目供资倡议也将继续下去。 在上一个周期，发展基金用于支持：1）教师招聘，2）建立新的共享资源，3）支持旨在提交计划项目申请的试点项目。这项供资的结果证明，发展基金的支出是非常有益的。由发展基金招募和支持的新教师在建立实验室、获得外部同行评审资金以及 开始发表他们的研究成果。发展基金还使两个新的共享资源（微阵列，蛋白质组学和质谱）的建立成为可能，这两个资源对癌症中心的研究人员来说是非常宝贵的，它们将在下一个周期转化为完整的KCC共享资源。这些新的共享资源的活动已经在顶级同行评审期刊上发表了许多文章。发展基金还为这两个共享资源征聘优秀的新主任提供了便利。

For the next 5 year cycle of the Cancer Center Support Grant, the Kimmel Cancer Center is requesting approximately $400,000 per year in Developmental Funds. These funds are a critical source of flexible funding for the KCC, and provide a vital source of support for recruitment of new faculty and for pilot project funding. For the next cycle, all the funds requested will be utilized only for those purposes. Center-wide recruitment needs have been identified in four areas: Structural Biology, Radiation Research and Translational Biology, Genito-Urinary Cancer, and Cancer Genetics. Developmental Funds will enable recruitments in these areas, which will not only strengthen specific areas of need, but also enhance intra- and inter-programmatic collaborations. The pilot project funding initiative established in the previous cycle also will be continued with the support of Developmental Funds. During the previous cycle, Developmental Funds were used to support: 1) faculty recruitment, 2) establishment of new shared resources, and 3) support for pilot projects aimed at the submission of program project applications. The results of this funding have proven the expenditure of Developmental Funds to be very beneficial. New faculty recruited with and supported by Developmental Funds have been highly successful in establishing their laboratories, acquiring external, peer-reviewed funding, and starting to publish the results of their studies. Developmental Funds also enabled the establishment of two new shared resources (Microarray, and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry) which have proven so invaluable to cancer center researchers that they will be transformed into full KCC shared resources in the next cycle. Numerous publications in top peer-reviewed journals have already resulted from the activities of these new shared resources. Developmental Funds also facilitated the recruitment of outstanding new Directors for both of these shared resources.