UDC and LCC Partners in Cancer Prevention and Control

描述（由申请人提供） 哥伦比亚哥伦比亚特区大学（UDC）和伦巴第癌症中心（LCC）提议建立一个规划U 56资助的伙伴关系，该伙伴关系将建立在目前资助的P20伙伴关系的成功基础上。U 56资助的伙伴关系将专门关注癌症预防和控制。这是一个高度相关的重点哥伦比亚特区（DC），其中有较高的癌症死亡率在全国。具体目标是：（1）建立一个规划和评估核心，将确定优先事项，评估进展和确定成功;（2）建立一个发展核心，将开始与4个试点项目和新的教师招聘;（3）建立一个LCC和UDC联合教授的UDC癌症生物学，预防和控制硕士课程。这种伙伴关系的目标是使研究人员能够发展互利的合作，值得新的同行评审资金。因此，这个U 56机制的重点是获得试点数据，使我们能够测试未来的假设，而不是回答目前的研究问题，将导致出版物。在头两年，试点项目的重点是获得R 01等赠款所需的数据结构，而预计在以后的几年里，我们将重点关注获得U 54伙伴关系赠款的数据。这四个试点项目涵盖癌症控制的范围。其中包括：1）涉及低收入孕妇的营养项目; 2）通过包装针对非裔美国人的烟草行业文件中的数据，使用反营销技术来预防吸烟; 3）提高少数民族临床试验的入学率; 4）确定将少数民族姑息治疗纳入医学院课程的方法。我们还将建立一个联合进行的癌症生物学，预防和控制硕士课程，强调基础科学和癌症控制的必要性，以更有效地进行癌症控制研究，并激励少数民族学生从事研究工作。这种U 56伙伴关系是可行的，结果是可以实现的，因为与P20的资金，我们发现，我们的教师可以在研究和教学项目合作。我们已经确定，在癌症预防和控制领域，每个机构的优势和局限性是最互补的。每个机构都以书面形式承诺确保伙伴关系取得成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and the Lombardi Cancer Center (LCC) are proposing to establish a planning U56 funded Partnership that will build upon their successes in a currently funded P20 Partnership. The U56-funded Partnership will focus exclusively on Cancer Prevention and Control. This is a highly relevant focus for the District of Columbia (DC), which has among the higher cancer death rates in the nation. The specific aims are: (1) to establish a Planning and Evaluation Core that will identify priorities, evaluate progress and determine success; (2) to establish a Developmental Core that will begin with 4 pilot projects and new faculty recruits and; (3) to establish a LCC and UDC jointly taught UDC masters program in Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control. The goal of this partnership is to allow the investigators to develop mutually beneficial collaborations worthy of new peer-reviewed funding. Thus, this U56 mechanism is focused on obtaining pilot data that will allow us to test future hypotheses, rather than answer current research questions that would lead to publications. In the first two years, the pilot projects are focused on the structure of data needed to obtain grants such as R01's, while it is anticipated that in the later years we will focus on data to obtain a U54 Partnership grant. The four pilot projects span the range of cancer control. These include: 1) a nutrition project involving low-income pregnant women; 2) use of counter-marketing techniques for prevention of cigarette smoking by packaging data from tobacco industry documents targeting African Americans; 3) enhancing enrollment for minorities in clinical trials, and; 4) identifying methods to integrate palliative care for minorities in medical school curricula. We also will establish a jointly conducted masters program in Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control, emphasizing the need for basis sciences and cancer control for more effective cancer control research, and stimulating minority students to pursue research careers. This U56 Partnership is feasible and the outcomes are achievable because with the P20 funding we have found that our faculty can work together on both research and teaching projects. We have identified that the strengths and limitations of each institution are most complementary in the area of cancer prevention and control. Each institution has expressed in writing a commitment to insure the success of the Partnership.