The overall goal of this K24 award proposal is to further the development of Dr. Spivack into an exceptional trans-disciplinary patient-oriented research mentor, capable of guiding trainees from developing a clinical hypothesis to formulation of a series of answerable component questions. Key components of that mentorship role will include the articulation of critical aspects of relevant human study design; invoking, where applicable, the creative procurement and analyses of relevant tissue biomarkers by collaboration with appropriate laboratory support; and engagement of sophisticated data analytic techniques to definitively address the hypotheses in a clinically-meaningful manner. The overall aim of the proposal is therefore to support this translational mentorship function.
The Specific Aims are: 1) Provide protected time for the PI to further train in epidemiology and statistics, particularly with respect to accrual and analysis of multi-dimensional observational datasets, both case-control/cross-sectional, and prospective cohorts with a time dimension. This will include those studies invoking genetic data analyses, and in prevention trials design and analyses. 2) Provide clinical-translational mentorship for one to two junior clinical faculty members, and a continuous rotation of two to four Pulmonary Medicine or Medical Oncology post-doctoral clinical fellows, at any given time over the project period. 3) Initiate the assessment of prospective cohort-based clinical risk, invoking clinical and airway-specific molecular biomarker analyses of common lung diseases (lung cancer, asthma, COPD), for facilitating the development of early detection and prevention strategies. The current capacity of the Spivack laboratory to develop, sample, accrue and analyze a population, and to conceive, develop and apply state-of-art molecular methodologies for airway disease biomarker analyses to the same population, provides a very unique training opportunity for clinical and other post-doctoral trainees in Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Oncology, and in translational research in general. Facilitated by a K24 award, the mentoring experience will be markedly enhanced, as will a shift to evaluating existing prospective cohorts, in a trans-disciplinary manner. The research questions are fundamentally clinical: (1) Can we identify individuals at risk for lung cancer, asthma, and COPD, to facilitate early detection strategies? (2) Can we intervene in individuals, to reduce that risk, using preventive strategies?

Public Health Relevance

The importance of developing junior faculty and clinical trainees into the next generation of clinical researchers is a central investment in the future of medicine and public health. To facilitate that development, this award will allow the PI to develop and pursue such mentoring activities, in the context of population-based research efforts. These efforts will link clinical features and novel airway biomarkers for early detection of lung cancer, and detection and monitoring of asthma and COPD.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24)
Project #
6K24CA139054-06
Application #
9122683
Study Section
Subcommittee I - Transistion to Independence (NCI)
Program Officer
Radaev, Sergei
Project Start
2010-07-12
Project End
2016-06-30
Budget Start
2015-09-01
Budget End
2016-06-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc
Department
Type
DUNS #
079783367
City
Bronx
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10461
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Han, Weiguo; Shi, Miao; Spivack, Simon D (2013) Site-specific methylated reporter constructs for functional analysis of DNA methylation. Epigenetics 8:1176-87
Shi, Miao; Han, Weiguo; Spivack, Simon D (2013) A quantitative method to identify microRNAs targeting a messenger RNA using a 3'UTR RNA affinity technique. Anal Biochem 443:1-12
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Bessette, Erin E; Spivack, Simon D; Goodenough, Angela K et al. (2010) Identification of carcinogen DNA adducts in human saliva by linear quadrupole ion trap/multistage tandem mass spectrometry. Chem Res Toxicol 23:1234-44

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