Career Development Program

孢子职业发展计划(CDP)将为独立医生和科学家做好准备 从事甲状腺癌的翻译研究。我们的目标是调查人员通过这笔资金 Process将在他们的职业生涯中从事甲状腺癌的翻译研究，以及 成为该领域的知识领袖。纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心(MSKCC)非常适合 对于这项任务，由于我们主校区和附属机构的科学和临床环境， 以及我们培养最高素质的医生和科学家的悠久传统。我们的制度环境 包括许多NIH培训赠款，包括用于翻译科学培训的K12，用于培训的T32赠款 肿瘤学转化研究博士，临床研究证书课程，与 威尔·康奈尔大学的临床和转化科学课程，以及久负盛名的初级教师指导 程序。我们计划在未来5年使用孢子职业发展基金，以加强 现有的正式培训计划，并利用入学和毕业的学生的才华 格斯特纳·斯隆-凯特林生物医学研究生院。我们将鼓励更多的医生 受训人员专注于甲状腺癌的翻译研究，努力吸引符合以下条件的基础科学家 有兴趣致力于博士后培训，以做出具有现实潜力的发现 到临床应用。MSKCC甲状腺孢子职业发展计划的具体目标是 1)支持高级博士后研究员的教育、培训和研究 甲状腺癌的转化性研究，采用临床和实验室双重指导模式。这个目标， 整合，但不是由孢子直接资助，将导致候选人的目标2.2)招募和指导 初级教员将从事甲状腺癌的翻译研究。职业发展委员会，共同担任主席 詹姆斯·费金博士和大卫·菲斯特博士将指导职业发展计划。这个 委员会将包括来自临床和基础科学的代表。

The SPORE Career Development Program (CDP) will prepare physicians and scientists for independent careers in translational research in thyroid cancer. Our goal is that the investigators funded through this process will spend their professional lifetimes conducting translational research in thyroid cancer, and become intellectual leaders in the field. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is ideally suited for this task, because of the scientific and clinical environment at our main campus and affiliated institutions, and our long tradition of training physicians and scientists of the highest quality. Our institutional environment includes numerous NIH training grants, including a K12 for translational science training, a T32 grant to train PhDs in translational research in oncology, a Certificate Program in Clinical Investigation integrated with the Clinical and Translational Science Program at Weill Cornell, and a well established junior faculty mentoring program. We plan to use the SPORE Career Development funds over the next 5 years to enhance the existing formal training programs and tap into the talent of students matriculating and graduating from the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences. We will encourage more physician trainees to focus on translational research in thyroid cancer and strive to attract basic scientists who are interested in devoting their postdoctoral training to making discoveries that have a realistic potential to lead to clinical applications. The specific aims of the MSKCC Thyroid SPORE Career Development Program are to: 1) To support the education, training and research of advanced postdoctoral fellows for careers in translational research in thyroid cancer, using a dual clinical and laboratory mentorship model. This aim, integrated but not directly funded by the SPORE, will lead to candidates for aim 2. 2) To recruit and mentor junior faculty to work in translational research in thyroid cancer. A Career Development Committee, cochaired by Dr. James Fagin and Dr. David Pfister, will direct the Career Development Program. The Committee will include representatives from both clinical and basic sciences.