Translational Pediatric Cancer Epidemiology Research Training Grant

 描述(由申请者提供)：明尼苏达大学儿科和共济会癌症中心提议继续一个非常成功的儿科癌症流行病学研究的培训项目。我们的计划面向全国学者，为1名博士后和3名博士后提供机会，以跨学科交叉培训为目标，加强他们在儿科癌症研究领域的研究和经验。学员拥有19名优秀的指导教师，在各种研究环境中工作，包括经典流行病学、基因调查、实验室实验室科学和临床调查。除了专门针对儿科癌症的课程外，明尼苏达大学流行病学(PhD)和临床研究(MS)强大的研究生学位课程还提供流行病学、癌症流行病学、生物统计学、癌症生物学、遗传流行病学、免疫学、临床试验/方法和现场课程的机会 研究。此外，学生们在干细胞生物学、人类和动物研究、研究设计和开发、统计分析方法以及个人和团队拨款撰写方面有几个无与伦比的机会来指导翻译研究项目。一名博士前学生被正式录取到研究生院的流行病学博士项目。博士后实习生来自医学、基础和应用科学，通过国家广告和我们的共济会癌症中心成员，以及儿科的医学研究员队列，他们已经完成了儿科肿瘤学的高级临床培训，并正在着手其培训的研究部分。特别注意从任职人数不足的少数群体中招募个人。我们期待着 我们的两名博士后实习生将选择在临床研究中获得硕士学位。选择博士后和博士后受训者的标准包括优秀的学术表现和对学术、临床或公共卫生领域的独立研究的职业导向。每名学员在他们的研究项目中至少有两名来自互补学科的资深导师指导。所有受训人员都参加儿科癌症专题课程和儿科癌症流行病学读物，每周儿科癌症研讨会会议和儿科肿瘤会议，每月研讨会，年度务虚会，以及在国家会议上介绍他们自己的研究。博士后在撰写/准备补助金方面接受额外的培训。所有人都接受负责任的研究行为方面的指导。从这个项目毕业的受训者将有能力从事跨学科的高影响力的儿科癌症研究。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics and Masonic Cancer Center propose to continue a highly successful training program in translational pediatric cancer epidemiology research. Our Program is sought nationally by scholars, and provides opportunities for 1 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral students to enhance their research and experience across a spectrum of pediatric cancer research, with a goal of interdisciplinary cross‐training. With 19 outstanding mentoring faculty, trainees work in a variey of research settings including classical epidemiology, genetic investigations, laboratory bench science, and clinical investigations. Along with coursework specific to pediatric cancer, strong graduate school degree programs at the University of Minnesota in Epidemiology (PhD) and in Clinical Research (MS) offer opportunities for courses in epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, cancer biology, genetic epidemiology, immunology, clinical trials/methods, and field research. Further, students have several unparalleled opportunities for supervised translational research projects in stem cell biology, human and animal research, study design and development, statistical analysis approaches, and individual and team grant writing. The one predoctoral student is formally admitted to the graduate school PhD program in epidemiology. The postdoctoral trainees are drawn from the medical, basic and applied sciences through national advertising and our Masonic Cancer Center members, and from the cohort of medical fellows in the Department of Pediatrics who have completed advanced clinical training in pediatric oncology and are embarking on the research component of their training. Special attention is given to recruitment of individuals from under‐represented minorities. We anticipate that two of our postdoctoral trainees will choose to obtain an MS in clinical research. Criteria fo selection of both pre and postdoctoral trainees include a strong academic performance and a career orientation toward independent research in an academic, clinical, or public health setting. Each trainee is guided by at least two senior mentors from complementary disciplines in their research projects. All trainees participate in courses in pediatric cancer topics and readings in pediatric cancer epidemiology, weekly pediatric cancer seminar meetings and pediatric tumor conferences, monthly seminars, annual retreats, and presenters of their own research at national meetings. Postdoctoral students receive additional training in grant writing/preparation. All receive instruction in the responsible conduct of research. Trainees who graduate from this program will have the capacity to undertake high impact pediatric cancer research across a spectrum of disciplines.