Education and Outreach Unit

项目摘要--教育和外展股 我们为物理科学实习生(研究生和博士后)量身定做培训 进入癌症研究和采用物理科学方法的癌症生物学实习生。培训 要素包括课堂教学、基于实验室的微型课程和沉浸体验。对于物理 科学实习生，重点是在现代癌症生物学方面获得坚实的基础(课程：癌症 工程师和物理科学)，开发在物理领域不太常见的关键实验室技能 科学(小型课程：哺乳动物和原代细胞培养)，以及接触临床医学和 翻译研究(临床沉浸)。对于癌症生物学实习生来说，目标是学习什么物理 科学方法使生物医学研究(课程：纳米生物技术)在应用中发展 这些方法(微型课程：表面修饰、微流体、3D工程培养)，以及看到一个 从内部到工程实验室(工程沉浸)。两组受训人员都参加了一项创新的 学生主导的癌症新陈代谢课程。其他项目旨在拓宽研究视角 实习生。我们举办了一系列PSOC研讨会，强调学员与演讲者的互动以及 一年一度的PSOC务虚会，将学员纳入宏观研究计划。通过与当地居民的互动 患者权益倡导者，我们的实习生了解癌症患者的高优先级问题。我们还将继续支持 学员发起的计划，如非常成功的癌症头脑风暴俱乐部和新的月度PSOC 咖啡时间，有“内部规则”，鼓励实习生与教职员工就宏观科学问题进行互动。 我们的目标是使PSOC实习生在其技能所在的各种职业道路上取得成功 很有价值。一些PSOC研讨会时段将强调科学家在商业、政策和 以及这些活动如何对癌症产生积极影响。我们将与创新培训合作 计划，如康奈尔大学资助的拓宽科学培训经验，以提供深入的 与学员选择的职业道路相关的职业发展。最后，我们的目标是广泛分发一些 这些培训材料。我们将继续在多个地点对纳米生物技术课程进行视频会议 并且可以添加其他PSON参与者。为工程师和物理学家开设的癌症课程 创新的教学方法，专为物理科学家的动机和需求量身定做 癌症研究。如果这门课程能够广泛使用，那将是非常有价值的。基于这门课程的一本书是 即将完成，我们建议通过以下方式将课程转换为大规模开放在线课程(MOOC) 康奈尔大学与edX的新合作伙伴关系。教育和外展股的活动与 本提案中概述的具体研究目标以及更广泛的目的是促进 加强癌症研究的物理科学/工程和癌症生物学/肿瘤学之间的相互作用。

Project Summary – Education and Outreach Unit We develop training tailored to the needs of physical science trainees (graduate student and post-doctoral) entering cancer research and to cancer biology trainees adopting physical science approaches. Training elements include classroom instruction, lab-based minicourses, and immersion experiences. For physical science trainees, the focus is on gaining a solid grounding in modern cancer biology (course: Cancer for Engineers and Physical Sciences), developing critical laboratory skills that are less common in the physical sciences (minicourses: mammalian and primary cell culture), and gaining exposure to clinical medicine and translational research (clinical immersion). For cancer biology trainees, the goal is to learn what physical science methods enable in biomedical research (course: Nanobiotechnology), develop aptitude in applying these approaches (minicourses: surface modification, microfluidics, 3D engineered culture), and seeing an engineering lab from the inside (engineering immersion). Both groups of trainees participate in an innovative, student-led course on metabolism in cancer. Other programs aim to broaden the research perspective of trainees. We host a PSOC seminar series that emphasizes trainee interactions with speakers as well as an annual PSOC retreat that brings trainees into big-picture research planning. Through interactions with local patient advocates, our trainees learn about high-priority issues for cancer patients. We also continue to support trainee-initiated programs, such as the very successful Cancer Brainstorming Club, and a new monthly PSOC coffee hour with “house rules” that encourage trainee interactions with faculty about big-picture science issues. We aim to prepare PSOC trainees to be successful in the wide variety of career paths where their skills are valuable. Some PSOC seminar slots will emphasize the role of scientists in business, policy, and communications and how those activities can positively impact cancer. We will partner with innovative training programs, such as Cornell's NIH-funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training, to provide in-depth professional development relevant to a trainee's chosen career path. Finally, we aim to broadly distribute some of these training materials. We will continue to videoconference the Nanobiotechnology course to multiple sites and can add additional PSON participants. The Cancer for Engineers and Physical Scientists course takes an innovative pedagogical approach that is tailored to the motivations and needs of physical scientists starting in cancer research. It would be very valuable for this course to be widely available. A book based on the course is near completion and we propose to convert the course to a massively open online course (MOOC) through Cornell's new partnership with edX. The activities of the Education and Outreach Unit are tightly aligned with both the specific research goals outlined in this proposal as well as with the broader aim to facilitate interactions between physical science/engineering and cancer biology/oncology that enhance cancer research.