STANDOUT in Behavioral Cancer Prevention and Control Research: Summer Training Accelerating and Nurturing the Development of Outstanding Undergraduate Trainees

行为癌症防治研究脱颖而出：暑期培训加速培养优秀本科生

• 批准号: 10672273
• 负责人: Joel Erblich
• 金额: $ 30.48万
• 依托单位: HUNTER COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10672273
• 关键词: Acceleration; Address; Affect; Alcohol consumption; Area; Awareness; Behavioral; Cancer Control; Cancer Control Research; Career Mobility; Cities; Collaborations; Communication; Competence; Dedications; Development; Diagnosis; Diet; Education; Employment; Evaluation; Exercise; Exposure to; First Generation College Students; Funding; Future; Generations; Graduate Education; Heightened Cancer Risk; Individual; Infrastructure; Knowledge; Malignant Neoplasms; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Minority-Serving Institution; Modeling; New York; New York City; Oncology; Online Systems; Outcome; Population Heterogeneity; Process; Productivity; Program Effectiveness; Quality of life; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Risk Behaviors; Scientist; Students; Sun Exposure; System; Talents; Time; Tobacco use; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Writing; cancer health disparity; cancer prevention; cancer risk; cancer therapy; career; career development; cohort; college; effectiveness evaluation; experience; laboratory experience; medical schools; meetings; member; multidisciplinary; next generation; programs; psychologic; recruit; relapse risk; research and development; responsible research conduct; satisfaction; scaffold; skills; student training; summer research; symposium; treatment response; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; university student; urban minority; verbal

PROJECT SUMMARY Modifiable behavioral factors, including tobacco use, alcohol consumption, diet, exercise, and sun exposure, account for up to 75% of cancer cases and figure prominently in response to treatments and risk of relapse. In addition, heightened risk for cancer, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, often come with significant harms to psychological functioning and quality of life, which in turn may adversely affect cancer outcomes. Despite decades of research on behavioral aspects of cancer prevention and control (BCPC), many individuals continue to engage in risky behaviors, and many continue to bear the considerable psychological burdens associated with cancer risk, diagnosis, treatment and survival. Major barriers to continued progress in this area include: 1) the relatively small fraction of scientists who focus their work on BCPC, 2) a lack of awareness of BCPC career opportunities when college students consider their advanced educational options, 3) a lack of opportunities to receive formal early training in BCPC research, and 4) a lack of stewardship of outstanding college students to help them transition from research labs to successful graduate education. Moreover, BCPC scientists are increasingly unprepared to tackle the unique behavioral and psychological challenges faced by an increasingly culturally diverse population. The program aims to address these critical training gaps by providing 15-week immersive summer research, mentoring, and career development experiences for outstanding undergraduates (n=16/summer) from the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the U.S. With all of its eleven senior colleges federally-designated minority-serving institutions, the diverse and talented CUNY student body provides an ideal pool of dedicated, promising young scholars to benefit from the proposed program. We will match outstanding students with behavioral scientists from CUNY's Hunter College (HC), or the nearby Center for Behavioral Oncology at the renowned Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), with which HC maintains close collaborations. The program will go beyond simple summer lab experiences, offering collaborative multidisciplinary idea-generation projects, biweekly career development meetings as a cohort, creating opportunities for students to develop lasting relationships with experts in the field, as well as future colleagues, and provide critical transitional mentoring during the process of applying for graduate education. Connecting with the next generation of scientists from an early stage and shepherding them through the challenging transition from undergraduate to advanced education is a critical step supporting the continuity of trainees' development that is all too often ignored. We will also leverage the considerable resources of HC's larger NIH-funded Cancer Health Disparities Partnership, which will provide scaffolding and infrastructure to efficiently execute the program. Finally, we will conduct ongoing, rigorous multifocal outcome evaluations to determine the effectiveness of the program and make real-time programmatic adjustments as needed.

项目摘要 可修改的行为因素，包括烟草使用，饮酒，饮食，运动和暴露， 最多可占癌症病例的75％，并以响应治疗和复发风险而显着数字。在 此外，癌症的风险增加以及癌症的诊断和治疗通常都有明显的 对心理功能和生活质量的损害，反过来可能会对癌症的预后产生不利影响。 尽管对预防癌症预防和控制的行为方面进行了数十年的研究（BCPC），但许多人 继续从事风险行为，许多人继续承担着巨大的心理负担 与癌症风险，诊断，治疗和生存有关。这一领域持续进展的主要障碍 包括：1）将其工作集中在BCPC上的科学家相对较小，2）缺乏对 当大学生考虑他们的高级教育选择时，BCPC职业机会，3）缺乏 在BCPC研究中接受正式早期培训的机会，以及4）缺乏杰出的管理 大学生可以帮助他们从研究实验室过渡到成功的研究生教育。此外，BCPC 科学家越来越没有准备应对一个独特的行为和心理挑战。 文化上越来越多样化的人群。该计划旨在通过提供这些关键的培训差距来解决这些关键的培训差距 杰出的15周沉浸式夏季研究，指导和职业发展经验 最大的城市大学的纽约市大学（CUNY）的本科生（n = 16/夏季） 在美国的系统，所有十一所高级学院联邦指定的少数族裔服务机构， 多元化，才华横溢 来自拟议的计划。我们将与CUNY猎人的行为科学家与杰出的学生相匹配 学院（HC），或附近的行为肿瘤学中心在山上著名的伊坎医学院 Sinai（ISMMS），与HC保持密切合作。该程序将超越简单的夏季实验室 经验，提供协作多学科思想生成项目，每两周职业发展 作为队列的会议，为学生创造机会与该领域的专家建立持久的关系， 以及未来的同事，并在申请过程中提供关键的过渡指导 研究生教育。与早期阶段的下一代科学家联系并为他们建立联系 通过从本科到高级教育的挑战过渡是支持 受训者发展的连续性常常被忽略。我们还将利用大量资源 HC较大的NIH资助的癌症健康差异伙伴关系将提供脚手架和基础设施 有效执行程序。最后，我们将进行持续的，严格的多焦点结果评估 确定程序的有效性，并根据需要进行实时编程调整。