CANARY CANCER RESEARCH EDUCATION SUMMER TRAINING (CANARY CREST) PROGRAM

项目概要/摘要：斯坦福大学金丝雀癌症早期检测中心（“金丝雀 中心”）是一个世界级的设施，其使命是促进跨学科研究，从而发展 血液（和其他微创）测试和分子成像方法来检测，定位和分层 通过整合体内和体外诊断的研究来早期癌症。在这项使命中， 向各级科学界正式介绍新的和创新的方法。这个竞争激烈 更新申请是为了继续支持金丝雀癌症研究教育暑期培训 （Canary CREST）通过向学生介绍研究教育来履行教育使命的计划 新的职业道路。该计划的总体目标是培养新一代跨学科科学家 在早期癌症检测中，通过在早期阶段提供综合的实践研究经验， 科学教育金丝雀CREST计划是一个为期10周的暑期教学计划， 本科生在生物，工程，数学和/或物理科学，并提供了一个 结构化的研究经验，重点是早期癌症检测。该计划将由 金丝雀中心，汇集了26名教师的研究小组致力于多学科小组 涉及使用生物化学中的实验和计算方法的早期癌症检测领域， 生物工程、生物信息学、分子成像和癌症生物学。Canary CREST计划 活动包括：（1）在六个调查领域之一，即开发设备， 用于癌症诊断、癌症生物标志物发现和验证、癌症生物学、癌症分子成像， 癌症的临床影像学和癌症生物信息学;（2）专门设计的课堂课程， 癌症早期检测领域的概念框架;（3）科学研究研讨会;（4） 全面的专业发展组成部分，包括职业讲座，学生演示， 关于沟通技巧、职业机会和多样性的讲习班。该计划的关键方面是提供 参与者有机会进行导师指导的研究，同时了解 假设驱动的研究，对结果进行批判性解释和数据分析。的长期目标 这项教育研究计划是为了支持专业研究人员的增长需求，他们将有一个 在迅速扩大的癌症早期检测领域产生重大影响。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection (“Canary Center”) is a world-class facility with the mission to foster interdisciplinary research leading to the development of blood (and other minimally invasive) tests and molecular imaging approaches to detect, localize, and stratify early cancers by integrating research in in vivo and in vitro diagnostics. Embedded within this mission is the need to formally present new and innovative approaches to scientific communities at all levels. This competitive renewal application is for continued support of the Canary Cancer Research Education Summer Training (Canary CREST) Program which fulfills an educational mission by introducing students to research education and new career paths. The overall goal of the program is to train a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists in early cancer detection by offering an integrative hands-on research experience at an early stage of their scientific education. The Canary CREST Program is a 10-week instructional summer program for 30 undergraduate students in the biological, engineering, mathematical, and/or physical sciences, and offers a structured research experience with a focus on early cancer detection. The program will be administered by the Canary Center and brings together a multidisciplinary group of 26 faculty whose research groups are dedicated to the field of early cancer detection using experimental and computational approaches in biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, molecular imaging, and cancer biology. Proposed Canary CREST Program activities include: (1) Mentor-directed research in one of six investigative areas, namely, development of devices for cancer diagnostics, cancer biomarker discovery and validation, cancer biology, molecular imaging of cancer, clinical imaging of cancer, and cancer bioinformatics; (2) Specially-designed classroom sessions to provide a conceptual framework of the field of early cancer detection; (3) Seminars in scientific research; (4) A comprehensive professional development component that includes career talks, student presentations, workshops on communication skills, career opportunities, and diversity. The key aspect of this program is to offer participants the opportunity to conduct mentor-directed research while developing an understanding of hypothesis-driven studies with critical interpretation of results and analysis of data. The long-term objective of this educational research program is to support the growing need of specialized researchers who will have a significant impact in the rapidly-expanding area of cancer early detection.