Career Development Program

职业发展计划(CDP)的总体具体目标是招聘和发展致力于前列腺癌转译研究的初级教员，在有充分理由的情况下，招募和发展希望将研究重点转向前列腺癌领域的中级和高级研究人员。前列腺癌研究的未来在于创造性和创新性的研究人员继续进入该领域，并开发解决未得到满足的需求领域的基础和翻译项目。对这些努力的机构支持对这一领域的进步也是至关重要的；因此，前列腺孢子的CDP得到了机构资金的补充，以便在我们的孢子研究目标的范围内为重要的新倡议提供快速资金。已经为孢子项目和核心支持争取到了每年总计67.5万美元的机构资金，并为CDP预算提供了补充资金，使孢子计划能够支持在前列腺癌转化研究领域工作的有前途的新研究人员。将优先资助那些在前列腺癌领域具有独立研究生涯的申请者，他们的倡议被认为具有最高的科学价值，具有翻译潜力，并与加州大学洛杉矶分校前列腺癌孢子的整体研究任务相关。在CDP遴选委员会进行初步审查后，执行委员会核准供资项目，并确定使用CDP资金的优先事项。每个项目的年度资金将至少为50,000美元，每年将至少获得两个CDP奖项。

The overall Specific Aim of the Career Development Program (CDP) is to recruit and develop the careers of junior faculty members who are committed to translational research in prostate cancer, and, in well-justified cases, mid-level and senior investigators who are already established in another area of research who want to redirect their research focus to the field of prostate cancer. The future of prostate cancer research lies in the continued entry of creative and innovative investigators into the field and the development of basic and translational projects that solve areas of unmet need. Institutional support of these endeavors is also critical to advances in the field; therefore the Prostate SPORE's CDP is supplemented by institutional funds to allow for rapid funding of important new initiatives within the scope of our SPORE research goals. Institutional funding totaling $675,000 annually has been secured for SPORE project and core support, as well as to provide supplemental funds for the CDP budget, allowing for the SPORE program to support promising new investigators working in the field of prostate cancer translational research. The priority for funding will be those applicants with potential for an independent research career in the field of prostate cancer, and whose initiatives are considered of highest scientific merit and with translational potential and relevance to the overall research mission of the UCLA Prostate SPORE. After initial review by the CDP Selection Committee, the Executive Committee approves the funding line and determines priorities for use of the CDP funds. Annual funding for each project will be a minimum of $50,000, and a minimum of two CDP awards will be funded annually.