1/2 Langston University- UNTHSC Partnership for Cancer Research and Education

1/2 兰斯顿大学- UNTHSC 癌症研究和教育合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 10018471
• 负责人: Byron N Quinn
• 金额: $ 21.07万
• 依托单位: LANGSTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10018471
• 关键词: Academic Training; Accounting; Achievement; Affect; Biology; Biomedical Research; Cancer Burden; Cancer Research Project; Caring; Complex; Development; Disabled Persons; Disadvantaged; Disease; Education; Ethnic group; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Faculty; Goals; Health Care Research; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Health Services Accessibility; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Incidence; Individual; Institutes; Investigation; Light; Malignant Neoplasms; Oklahoma; Outcome; Participant; Physicians; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Race; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Scientist; Students; Texas; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; United States; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; anticancer research; cancer education; cancer health disparity; cancer type; career; design; disability; disadvantaged student; disparity reduction; education research; expectation; experience; health disparity; innovation; medically underserved; meetings; minority student; mortality; programs; racial and ethnic; research and development; response; socioeconomics; success; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

With the current US population continuing to grow at its current pace, nearly 50% of the US population in 2050 will be from medically underserved, vulnerable populations. Substantial evidence exists for the underrepresentation of minorities (individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities and from disadvantaged backgrounds) in all levels of the biomedical workforce (from the undergraduate level to the professoriate). Racial/ethnic populations demonstrate increased incidence and/or more aggressive disease for specific cancer types. Even when accounting for socioeconomic and access to care factors, incidence and mortality differences persist between racial/ethnic populations for some cancer types. Recent studies indicate that these unequal cancer burdens may be due to a complex biology that needs to be investigated to increase our basic understanding of cancer health disparities. There is a lack of diversity in the professional fields of healthcare and research, which strive to treat and eliminate the health disparities that exist in cancer prevalent throughout the United States. This proposal will focus on promoting diversity in individuals engaged cancer research and cancer disparities by developing a partnership between the Institute for Cancer Research at University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) and Langston University (LU), the only historically black college in Oklahoma. The Objective of the proposed partnership is to promote cancer-related research, cancer research experience and cancer education to undergraduate students and junior faculty. Each of the activities will be jointly developed and implemented at LU and UNTHSC. We will meet our objectives through three Specific Aims: Aim 1) Establish an Administrative Core (AC) that will be responsible for the overall implementation, management, and evaluation of the success of the various components of the partnership, Aim 2) Promote interdisciplinary and collaborative cancer research involving faculty from UNTHSC and LU, and support two pilot research projects, and Aim 3) Develop a Cancer Research Education Program (CREP) that provides students and junior faculty with cancer education, cancer research experiences, experimental design, interprofessional education (IPE) and health disparities. Our expectation is that by meeting our objectives, we will directly impact eventual achievement of our goal of establishing a long- term partnership between LU and UNTHSC with an ultimate outcome of obtaining a diverse population comprised of underrepresented populations in health disparity research related to cancer. Innovative features of proposed partnership program are (1) focus on the development of research excellence and professionalism in cancer and health disparities among the underrepresented and disadvantageous scholars; (2) extended active coaching integrated with interprofessional training programs and academic training, and (3) developing interdisciplinary cancer research teams. These activities will have a significant impact on increasing the success of URM and other disadvantaged groups in health disparity research related to cancer.

随着目前美国人口继续以目前的速度增长，到 2050 年，美国人口将占近 50% 将来自医疗服务不足的弱势群体。存在大量证据表明 少数群体代表性不足（来自代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的个人、 各级生物医学劳动力（来自残疾人和来自弱势背景） 本科阶段至教授阶段）。种族/民族人口的发病率增加和/或 针对特定癌症类型的更具侵袭性的疾病。即使考虑到社会经济和获得资源的机会 某些癌症的护理因素、发病率和死亡率在种族/族裔人群之间仍然存在差异 类型。最近的研究表明，这些不平等的癌症负担可能是由于复杂的生物学需要 进行调查以增加我们对癌症健康差异的基本了解。缺乏多样性 在医疗保健和研究专业领域，努力治疗和消除健康差距 存在于美国各地流行的癌症中。该提案将侧重于促进多样性 通过与该研究所建立伙伴关系，个人参与癌症研究和癌症差异 北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心 (UNTHSC) 和兰斯顿大学癌症研究 （LU），俄克拉荷马州历史上唯一的黑人大学。拟议伙伴关系的目标是促进 癌症相关研究、癌症研究经验以及对本科生和学生的癌症教育 初级教师。每项活动都将由 LU 和 UNTHSC 共同开发和实施。我们将 通过三个具体目标来实现我们的目标： 目标 1) 建立一个行政核心 (AC)， 负责各项工作的总体实施、管理和成功评价 伙伴关系的组成部分，目标 2) 促进跨学科和协作癌症研究，涉及 UNTHSC 和 LU 的教职人员，并支持两个试点研究项目，目标 3）开展癌症研究 教育计划 (CREP) 为学生和初级教师提供癌症教育、癌症研究 经验、实验设计、跨专业教育（IPE）和健康差异。我们的期望是 通过实现我们的目标，我们将直接影响我们建立长期的目标的最终实现 LU 和 UNTHSC 之间的长期合作关系，最终结果是获得多元化的人口 由癌症相关健康差异研究中代表性不足的人群组成。创新的 拟议的伙伴关系计划的特点是（1）注重卓越研究的发展和 代表性不足和处于不利地位的学者在癌症和健康方面的专业水平差异； (2) 与跨专业培训计划和学术培训相结合的长期主动辅导，以及 (3) 发展跨学科癌症研究团队。这些活动将对增加 URM 和其他弱势群体在与癌症相关的健康差异研究中取得的成功。