Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请是西北大学罗伯特·H·卢里综合癌症中心信号转导与癌症培训计划(T32 CA070085)的续签资金申请。信号转导和癌症培训计划一直在通过有指导的实验室研究和由研讨会、期刊俱乐部和项目会议组成的有组织的课程，为博士后培训人员在信号转导和癌症领域工作做准备。这些教导员是由美国国立卫生研究院资助的研究人员，他们专注于恶性细胞信号通路的翻译研究。该培训计划是对卢里癌症中心现有的激素作用和癌症信号转导的基础科学计划的补充。该培训计划提供了一个培训环境，使新近的博士能够在结构化的指导环境中度过两年，在那里他们可以获得必要的技能和基础知识，然后开始作为独立研究人员在癌症研究实验室的职业生涯，无论是在学术界还是在工业中。在过去的十年里，我们培养了26名博士后研究员，其中几人在工业领域获得了成功的学术教师职位或高级科学家职位。这是我们的 期望我们的学员将继续做好适当的准备，迎接未来几年生物医学研究的挑战，并将为信号和癌症方面的开创性发现做出贡献。 公共卫生相关性：该计划培训信号转导和癌症领域的博士后研究员，并为他们作为独立科学家的职业生涯做准备。西北大学一群在信号和癌症不同领域工作的高素质教职员工已经聚集在一起，为博士后实习生提供指导和指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a request for renewal funding for the Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer (T32 CA070085) at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. The Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer has been preparing postdoctoral trainees to work in the area of signal transduction and cancer through mentored laboratory research and a structured curriculum of seminars, journal clubs and program meetings. The preceptors are established NIH funded investigators who focus on translational research on signaling pathways in malignant cells. This training program complements the Lurie Cancer Center's existing Basic Science Program in Hormone Action and Signal Transduction in Cancer. The Training Program provides a training milieu that enables recent PhDs to spend two years in a structured mentored environment where they can acquire the skills and fundamental knowledge necessary before embarking on careers as independent investigators in cancer research laboratories, either in academia or in industry. Over the last ten years we have trained 26 postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have achieved successful academic faculty positions or senior scientist positions in industry. It is our expectation that our trainees will continue to be appropriately prepared to meet the challenges of biomedical research in the coming years and will contribute to seminal discoveries in signaling and cancer. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This Program trains postdoctoral fellows in the field of signal transduction and cancer and prepares them for careers as independent scientists. A group of highly qualified faculty at Northwestern University who work in different areas of signaling and cancer has been assembled to provide guidance and mentorship to postdoctoral trainees.