This application is a request for renewal funding for the Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer (T32 CA070085) at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. The Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer has been preparing postdoctoral trainees to work in the area of signal transduction and cancer through mentored laboratory research and a structured curriculum of seminars, journal clubs and program meetings. The preceptors are established NIH funded investigators who focus on translational research on signaling pathways in malignant cells. This training program complements the Lurie Cancer Center's existing Basic Science Program in Hormone Action and Signal Transduction in Cancer. The Training Program provides a training milieu that enables recent PhDs to spend two years in a structured mentored environment where they can acquire the skills and fundamental knowledge necessary before embarking on careers as independent investigators in cancer research laboratories, either in academia or in industry. Over the last ten years we have trained 26 postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have achieved successful academic faculty positions or senior scientist positions in industry. It is our expectation that our trainees will continue to be appropriately prepared to meet the challenges of biomedical research in the coming years and will contribute to seminal discoveries in signaling and cancer.

Public Health Relevance

This Program trains postdoctoral fellows in the field of signal transduction and cancer and prepares them for careers as independent scientists. A group of highly qualified faculty at Northwestern University who work in different areas of signaling and cancer has been assembled to provide guidance and mentorship to postdoctoral trainees.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)
Project #
2T32CA070085-16
Application #
8268204
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Program Officer
Damico, Mark W
Project Start
1997-05-01
Project End
2017-08-31
Budget Start
2012-09-07
Budget End
2013-08-31
Support Year
16
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$207,409
Indirect Cost
$16,139
Name
Northwestern University at Chicago
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
005436803
City
Chicago
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60611
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