Molecular Therapies of Cancer Scientific Program

癌症分子治疗计划(MTCP)是一项“转化性研究”的努力， 拥有专门从事癌症诊断和治疗的临床医生的科学家。该计划在以下方面具有很强的优势 肺癌研究，并利用这一经验催化了与疾病有关的额外研究 面向团队和基础研究人员。MTCP还通过其 与其他癌症中心项目的互动。 MTCP的目标是了解导致癌症的分子事件(遗传和表观遗传)， 以及了解个体间基因变异在癌症发展和治疗中的作用，以及 利用这些信息为开发新的诊断、预防和治疗方法提供一个合理的基础 战略。具体而言，《中期战略计划》旨在： ？了解癌症的分子发病机制，重点是人体组织和模型系统 特别强调肺癌。这既包括异常情况的描述，也包括演示 它们作为生物、治疗和诊断靶点的功能相关性。 ？开发新的癌症成像和纳米技术工具，以提供新型显像剂和治疗药物 为了突出这些靶点在体内的临床前模型和后来的临床应用。 发展分子疗法，包括涉及或联合靶向放射治疗的分子疗法 在分子发病机制的研究中发现的异常以及特异性的识别和使用 某些癌症作为治疗靶点的细胞表面标志物。 发展肿瘤分子生物标记物，以预测临床行为和对特定疾病的反应 对个别患者进行治疗，使治疗可以“个人化”。 ？利用其他癌症中心项目(化学和癌症、癌细胞网络和 发展和癌症)，以西蒙斯家族独一无二的方式告知每个先前的主题 癌症中心，这将提供研究工作的协同效应，并促进转移到临床 UTSW。

The Molecular Therapeufics of Cancer Program (MTCP) is a "translational research" effort interfacing basic scientists with clinicians specializing in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The program has deep strengths in lung cancer research and has used this experience to catalyze addifional research that links disease oriented teams and basic researchers. The MTCP also provides a major series of bridges through its interactions other Cancer Center Programs. The goals of the MTCP are to understand the molecular events (genetic and epigenefic) leading to cancer, as well as understanding the role of inter-individual genefic variation in developing and treating cancer, and use this informafion to provide a rafionale basis for developing novel diagnostic, prevention, and therapeutic strategies. Specifically the MTCP seeks to: ¿ Understand the molecular pathogenesis of cancers with a focus on human tissues and model systems with a particular emphasis on lung cancer. This includes both descripfion of the abnormalifies and demonstrating their funcfional relevance as biologic, therapeufic and diagnostic targets. ¿ Develop new cancer imaging and nanotechnology tools to deliver novel imaging agents and therapeufics to highlight these targets in vivo in preclinical model and later in the clinic. ¿ Develop molecular therapeutics including those involving or combined with radiafion targeted at the abnormalities found in studies of the molecular pathogenesis as well as the identificafion and use of specific cell surface markers characterisfic of certain cancers as therapeufic targets. ¿ Develop tumor molecular biomarkers that allow predicfion of clinical behavior and response to specific treatments of individual patients so that treatment can be "personalized." ¿ Use advances in the other Cancer Center Programs (Chemistry and Cancer, Cancer Cell Networks, and Development and Cancer) to inform each of these prior themes in a way that is unique to the Simmons Cancer Center and that will provide synergy of research efforts and facilitate translafion to the clinic at UTSW.