Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划的目标是继续为五名博士前和五名博士后研究员提供基础广泛的跨学科癌症研究培训。由该计划资助的学员将与两名教师合作，他们的互补研究兴趣在于基础科学，临床研究或人口科学。为了通过这项培训补助金获得资金，研究员必须提交与癌症的病因学或治疗有关的研究提案，这些提案借鉴了两个或两个以上学科的专业知识。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来判断申请。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。长期目标是增加在与癌症和其他人类疾病有关的生物医学科学迅速扩大的知识基础的跨学科应用方面受过训练和具有专门知识的调查人员。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，各种研讨会和非正式小组会议的支持。受训人员将每年与赠款指导委员会举行会议，并每年在一次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将获得硕士学位的博士前学生。流行病学学位，同时获得博士学位。基础科学的训练。一个正式的双学位课程已经在UW建立，以有效的方式允许这种跨学科的培训。受训人员将从目前在这两个机构工作的博士前和博士后受训人员中招募，以及通过邮寄、国家会议信息亭和我们的网站申请这一创新方案的受训人员。 相关性：这一跨学科培训计划将增加癌症研究人员的数量，他们使用基础科学，临床和流行病学工具对癌症的病因和治疗方法有广泛的了解。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.