Regional Cancer Center Consortium Annual Meetings

区域癌症中心联盟年会

基本信息

批准号：
7484208
负责人：
ELIZABETH A REPASKY
金额：
$ 0.49万
依托单位：
ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-09-05 至 2010-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to provide partial meeting support for the annual meetings of the "Regional Cancer Center Consortium." The next annual meeting is being held Feb. 16-18th, 2006 at the Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and subsequent meetings will rotate to other member Institutions. The Regional Cancer Center Consortium is composed of a group of laboratory and clinical investigators from Comprehensive and Regional Cancer Centers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, and Michigan. The success of our prior meetings (held annually for the past 8 years) and the enthusiasm that has been generated for continuing and improving this effort has now prompted us to seek NCI support. Support for the next five years will greatly help us to develop and sustain a unique, high quality scientific program focused around important, timely themes concerning novel therapies and translational research. Such a program will 1) enhance regional clinical and scientific collaborations among near-by cancer centers and 2) provide a low cost and easily accessible, yet state-of- the-art educational opportunity for researchers, clinicians, industry representatives, students/ fellows and patients. NCI funding will be used specifically to augment meeting planning at an early stage for the next several years and to provide opportunities for graduate/medical students and laboratory/clinical fellows to attend the meeting (through travel awards) and to help defray the costs associated with travel of invited experts from outside the Consortium's region and with educational materials (notebooks/slide handouts) used for the meeting. Of great importance to the co-organizers of this Consortium is the inclusion of underrepresented minorities and women in all stages of meeting development, as speakers and as coorganizers, and making sure that the meetings are accessible to all persons, including those with disabilities. In summary, NCI funding for this annual meeting can help to provide for the long-term stability of an important and unique educational opportunity for both cancer researchers and care providers in this region of the country (which includes both underserved rural and urban communities) and contribute greatly toward the NCI's "Roadmap" goal of increased collaboration among regional and comprehensive cancer centers. This consortium has great potential for helping members of this region's cancer centers to network, increase collaborative efforts and pilot innovative approaches in the therapy of cancer, particularly new biological or immunological approaches, which will ultimately benefit patient care and the timely completion of new clinical trials.

描述（由申请人提供）：请求资金为“区域癌症中心联盟”的年度会议提供部分会议支持。下一届年会将于 2006 年 2 月 16 日至 18 日在匹兹堡大学医学中心的希尔曼癌症中心举行，随后的会议将轮流由其他成员机构举行。区域癌症中心联盟由来自宾夕法尼亚州、西弗吉尼亚州、俄亥俄州、纽约州和密歇根州综合和区域癌症中心的实验室和临床研究人员组成。我们之前的会议（过去 8 年每年举行一次）的成功以及继续和改进这项工作所产生的热情促使我们寻求 NCI 的支持。未来五年的支持将极大地帮助我们开发和维持一个独特的、高质量的科学项目，重点围绕有关新疗法和转化研究的重要、及时的主题。这样的计划将 1) 加强附近癌症中心之间的区域临床和科学合作，2) 为研究人员、临床医生、行业代表、学生/研究员提供低成本、易于获得且最先进的教育机会和病人。 NCI 资金将专门用于在未来几年的早期阶段加强会议规划，并为研究生/医学生和实验室/临床研究员提供参加会议的机会（通过差旅奖励），并帮助支付与会议相关的费用。来自联盟区域外的受邀专家的旅行费用以及会议使用的教育材料（笔记本/幻灯片讲义）。对于该联盟的共同组织者来说，非常重要的是让代表性不足的少数群体和妇女作为发言人和共同组织者参与会议发展的各个阶段，并确保所有人（包括残疾人）都能参加会议。总之，NCI 为本次年会提供的资金有助于为该国该地区（包括服务不足的农村和城市社区）的癌症研究人员和护理提供者提供重要且独特的教育机会的长期稳定，以及为 NCI 加强区域和综合癌症中心之间合作的“路线图”目标做出巨大贡献。该联盟在帮助该地区癌症中心的成员建立网络、加强合作和试点癌症治疗创新方法（特别是新的生物或免疫学方法）方面具有巨大潜力，这最终将有利于患者护理和及时完成新的临床试验。