F.1 Objective of the Career Development and training ProgramThe central mission of the ICMIC fellowship career development and training program is to nurture a multidisciplinaryscientific approach to molecular imaging in which a solid research foundation in cancer biologyis provided combined with 'state of the art' small animal and clinical imaging methodologies including:PWET, SPECT, MRI, MRS, bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging. This will be achieved throughassigning each trainee to a specific mentor (one of the P.l.'s of the ICMIC projects), responsible for projectoversight and direction and working on a defined project within that mentor's specific laboratory.Laboratory research skills are enhanced by rotations through the basic molecular imaging corelaboratories (MRI/MRS - Jason Koutcher, Nuclear Medicine (Steven Larson and Pat Zanzonico), andMolecular Probe and Reporter Gene Development (Vladimir Ponomarev). The fundamental of imagingmethodologies are further re-enforced through a number of optional didactic imaging courses provided bythe faculty, covering all aspects of molecular imaging. ICMIC fellows learn of the research developments,not only from their own assigned laboratory, but of other laboratories participating in the ICMIC program,through regular attendance of the monthly think tank meeting, where senior faculty flesh out new researchprojects and directions institute lectures, and through the numerous MSKCC research seminars, such asthe weekly presidents seminar (organized by Harold Varmus), which hosts distinguished cancer specialistfrom around the World.
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