Education, Training, and Outreach Program

为我们的CCSB开发一个强大的教育组件是一个及时的企业，因为GUMC已经在我们整个校园扩展系统生物学研究和教育的方向显着移动。我们已经提供了与CCSB的教育和培训目标直接相关的多个项目。其中一些活动发生在肿瘤生物学的跨学科MS学位范围内（由Hilakivi-Clarke博士指导，项目3），一项由NCI资助的肿瘤生物学研究生和博士后研究员培训补助金（T32-CA 009686），以及与哥伦比亚特区大学合作的癌症生物学、预防和控制教育项目，a历史黑人大学（U 56-CA 101429）。我们还将与其他CCSB合作，将专门针对CCSB成员和乔治敦大学/VA Tech/FCCC社区的教育活动扩展到ICBP计划和更广泛的科学界。在这个CCSB的教育，培训和推广活动将开发，领导，并在癌症系统生物学，生物信息学和计算建模领域的公认专家在乔治敦大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学交付。这个高度整合的教师群体，他们的背景，培训，正在进行的研究和教育活动建立了他们的集体能力，以完成我们在这里提出的活动。

Developing a strong educational component for our CCSB is a timely enterprise because GUMC has moved significantly in the direction of extending research and education in systems biology across our entire campus. We already offer multiple programs immediately relevant to the educational and training goals of this CCSB. Several of these activities occur within an interdisciplinary MS degree in Tumor Biology (directed by Dr. Hilakivi-Clarke, Project 3), a NCI-funded training grant in Tumor Biology for graduate and postdoctoral fellows (T32-CA009686), and a funded collaborative education program in cancer biology, prevention, and control with the University of the District of Columbia, a Historically Black University (U56-CA101429). We will also collaborate with other CCSBs to extend educational activities directed specifically to CCSB members and the Georgetown University/VA Tech/FCCC communities, and to those targeted across the ICBP program and the broader scientific community. The educational, training, and outreach activities in this CCSB will be developed, led, and delivered by acknowledged experts in the fields of cancer systems biology, bioinformatics, and computational modeling at Georgetown University and Virginia Tech. This highly integrated group of faculty, their backgrounds, training, ongoing research, and educational activities establish their collective ability to complete the activities we propose here.