Outreach and Dissemination Unit

MC-START将包括一个外联和传播单位（ODU），该单位将制定和实施一项知识转化战略，以最大限度地利用MC-START的研究发现，使关键利益攸关方（癌症生物学家，物理科学家，工程师，临床医生，潜在的工业合作伙伴）。我们将根据社会科学中已明确描述并被称为“创新传播”过程的各个阶段开展传播活动。为了进一步促进外联工作， 为了向癌症生物学和物理科学界宣传和传播，ODU将每年举办两次系列研讨会，每次为期两天，讨论与PS-OC计划直接相关的主题。ODU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行政会议中心组织这些研讨会。这两种方法的优点是，创新的概念整合和新的观点在更密切的发展 班伯里研讨会可以扩散到更广泛的物理科学，工程，癌症生物学和临床社区通过这第二个系列研讨会。南加州大学戴维森行政会议中心的利用将确保“西海岸”的推广，并将有效地补充“东海岸”的推广ODU的班伯里系列研讨会。该系列研讨会的目标是物理科学、癌症生物学和工程学研究人员，是MC-START项目具体目标的自然延伸， 参与实验室。ODU将采用各种战略来开发试点项目，并引进MC-START以外的专门知识，以加强其具体的研究活动。其中包括：（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提出挑战传统教条的实验新想法，并建议利用物理学，数学，化学和工程学的原理来检查癌症。这些“将物理科学与工程与癌症生物学（LIPSENC）联系起来”的会议预计将孵化出可以 在MC-START进行。ODU将监督一个客座研究员计划，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）批准的约10，000美元的小额资金将用于小规模试点，这些试点将为未来的试点研究提供有趣的数据和假设，这些研究可以在MC-START内进行。

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.