Training in Research for Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Control Program

该提案的总体目标是培养多学科的博士前学生和博士后研究员， 学科行为肿瘤学研究，以帮助开发新一代的研究人员谁可以整合 基础、临床和行为科学。培训计划将提供教学和研究 必要的经验，使学员能够建立成功的研究生职业生涯的行为 肿瘤学/癌症控制研究。博士前候选人将来自印第安纳州的部门/学校 大学/普渡大学（IUPUI），并将被录取为博士课程，希望专注于 他们在行为肿瘤学上的研究这些学校/部门包括应用健康科学，公共 健康，医学（血液学/肿瘤学和临床药理学部门），医学和分子 遗传学、泌尿学、护理学、社会工作和心理学。博士后研究员将在全国范围内招聘 与IUPUI的主要导师一起训练。该计划将具有足够的灵活性，以解决教育 来自不同学术学科的个人的需求，但足够正式，以确保 参与者获得高水平的内容知识，并获得密集的多学科研究 在他们完成学业的时候。该计划建立在一个小的独特优势， 现有的培训计划设在护理学院。这种R25机制将使我们能够 扩大我们的计划，包括一个真正的跨学科的努力，并建立在我们的重要资源 NCI指定的临床癌症中心，我们在IUPUI的核心项目行为肿瘤学研究和 医学中心校园的独特优势。该计划的第一年将包括最终开发 并招收2名博士预科生和1名博士后研究员。 个性化的培训计划将根据每个学生的学术背景量身定制， 肿瘤学必修课学生将在他们感兴趣的主要课程中选择一位导师， 在不同的学校/部门担任二级导师。计划进行过程评价和成果评价。一个 高级研究员咨询委员会将指导项目开发和学生进步。这 R25培训支持将填补培训多学科研究人员的重要使命，这些研究人员可以 基础、临床和行为研究之间的现有差距。

The overarching goal of this proposal is to train pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in multi- disciplinary behavioral oncology research to help develop a new generation of researchers who can integrate basic, clinical and behavioral sciences. The training program will provide the didactic and research experiences necessary to enable trainees to establish successful post-graduate careers in behavioral oncology/cancer control research. Pre-doctoral candidates will come from departments/schools at Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) and will have been admitted to a PhD program with a desire to focus their research in behavioral oncology. These schools/departments include Applied Health Science, Public Health, Medicine (Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Clinical Pharmacology), Medical and Molecular Genetics, Urology, Nursing, Social Work and Psychology. Post-doctoral fellows will be recruitednationally to train with primary mentors at IUPUI. The program will be flexible enough to address the educational needs of individuals from different academic home disciplines, but formalized enough to ensure that participants achieve high levels of content knowledge and acquire intensive, multi-disciplinary research experience by the time they complete their studies. The program builds on the unique strengths of a small existing training program housed within the School of Nursing. This R25 mechanisms will allow us to expand our program to include a true trans-disciplinary effort and builds upon the significant resources of our NCI-designated Clinical Cancer Center, our core programs behavioral oncology research at IUPUI and the unique strengths of the medical center campus. The first year of the program will include final development of the specialized curriculum as well as recruitment of 2 pre-doctoral students and 1post-doctoral fellow. Individualized training plans will be tailored to the academic background of each student but will include four required courses in oncology. Students will select a mentor in their primary program of interest and a secondary mentor in a different school/department. Both process and outcome evaluations are planned. An Advisory Committee of senior researchers will guide the program development and student progress. This R25 training support will fill the important mission of training multidisciplinary researchers who can bridge the existing gap between basic, clinical and behavioral research.