Clinical & Translational Education Program (CTEP)

Awardees for January/February 2008 are listed below

AWARDS:

TL1 PRE-DOCTORAL TRAINING AWARD		Up to $26,000 1 YEAR DUE DATE: JUNE 20, 2008
See Guidelines: TL1_Application_Guidelines_2008_06.pdf Application Form: please use the ON-LINE APPLICATION Contact: CTSC_predoc@med.cornell.edu
KL2 POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS AWARD		Up to $80,000 per year Up to 2 YEARS DUE DATE: JUNE 20, 2008
See Guidelines: KL2_Application_Guidelines_2008_06.pdf Application Form: please use the ON-LINE APPLICATION Contact: CTSC_scholars@med.cornell.edu

 

Introduction

The Clinical and Translational Education Program (CTEP), a well-coordinated and integrated clinical and translational (C/T) research training program utilizing the diverse trans-institutional faculty for teaching and mentoring (see figure 1). The trainees carrying out clinical/translational mentored research have access to an expanded clinical research center (PCIR), technical and support core facilities, many other state-of-the-art facilities and a large and diverse patient population.

Figure 1: Creating a Pipeline of C/T Researchers

The participating members of the faculty are from Weill Cornell Medical and Graduate Schools, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, the Hunter College School of Nursing, the Hunter College Gene Center (Research Center for Minority Institutions) and the extensive community outreach program coordinated through the Cornell University Cooperative Extension-NYC.

The principal objective of the Clinical and Translational Education Program (CTEP) is to develop a pipeline of highly trained C/T researchers (Figure 1) to facilitate the transfer of clinical research – from bench to bedside – into clinical practice. Rigorous training of future investigators in the science and ethics of clinical and translational research is essential to address the shortage of qualified clinical researchers to increase the odds of their success and ultimately impact the quality of clinical care.

Through CTEP, the next generation of C/T investigators will be educated, C/T research activity expanded, and a cultural shift toward C/T research among partner institutions achieved. The integration of basic and C/T training programs will also serve to encourage the basic scientists to develop translational research careers.

Since our CTSC is designed to promote translational research in a team-oriented environment, all team research members will be provided with the opportunity to obtain the necessary training to establish long-term C/T research careers. In sum, an environment for research education has been created that is broad in scope, providing training careers in multidisciplinary team-based translational science at varying levels.

The specific aims of the CTEP are to provide:

• Clinical and Translational Education for trainees at all levels.
• Initiatives common to all educational programs:
  • A multidisciplinary mentorship program involving C/T researchers and basic scientists from all partnering institutions.
  • Team research in a multi-disciplinary mentored research environment using the PCIR.
  • Flexibility in training crafted to the needs of the various trainees and translational team members.
  • Program enrichment with seminars, workshops, invited speakers, etc.
  • Training in the responsible conduct of research.
• Innovations that will facilitate the achievement of our overall goal.
• Recruitment, retention and career counseling of new investigators for careers in C/T science.
• Tracking and evaluation of the overall Program and its components.

 

Components of the Clinical & Translational Education Program (CTEP)

Our unique and large student pool and talented trans-institutional and multi-disciplinary faculty has allowed innovative programs to be developed and offered under CTEP. This unique and flexible training program is based upon a common core curriculum (Figure 2).

Figure 2: K30 -- The Foundation of CTEP

It is both comprehensive and flexible in design and includes:

Existing programs incorporated into CTEP:

• WMC NIH K-30 Clinical Research core Curriculum: 
• A one year core curriculum resulting in a Certificate in Clinical Investigation,
• A two-year Masters Degree Program in Clinical Investigation with elective courses and mentored C/T research in a team environment.
  For more information refer to The Masters Degree Program in Clinical Investigation.
• MSKCC NIH K-30 Clinical Research Curriculum: consisting of four distinct modular programs resulting in a Certificate in Clinical Investigation.

Programs  to be implemented:

• CTEP KL2 Multidisciplinary Post-doctoral Career Scholars Honors Program for senior fellows and junior faculty,
• CTEP TL1 Pre-doctoral Training program with short term and long term training,
• PhD in Clinical Investigation
• Training programs for team facilitators, research coordinators, and nurse managers,
• Community Engagement programs for our community outreach program
• Dual Degree Programs:
• MS/MD-WMC
• MS/PhD - WGSMS, MSKCC, Hunter College-Gene Center, Cornell-Ithaca MS/DSN, MS/DPT- HCSON

Overview of the Educational Programs

 

Awardees for January/February 2008

Awardee	Institution and Specialty
Bee, Katherine BS	WCGSMS
T award	Cardiovascular Diseases
Bourne, Jonathan BS	WCGSMS
T award	Physiology Biophysics and Systems Biology
Carbonaro, Marisa BA	WCGSMS
T award	Oncology
Imhauser, Carl PhD, MS	Hospital for Special Surgery
K award	Bioengineering
Morozov, Alexei MD, PhD	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
K award	Oncology
Mukerjee, Sushmita PhD, MS	Weill Cornell Medical Center
K award	Imaging
Myeku, Natura MA, BA	Hunter College
T award	Neurodegeneration
Qiao, Yaming PhD	Weill Cornell Medical College
K award	Oncology
Ritchie, Ellen MD	Weill Cornell Medical College
K award	Hematology
Roberts, Angela BA	WCGSMS
T award	Clinical Pharmacology
Tagawa, Scott MD	Weill Cornell Medical College
K award	Oncology
Teo, Esther BS	WCGSMS
T award	Statistics, Research Methods, Informatics
Tilley, Ann MD	Weill Cornell Medical College
K award	Pulmonary Diseases
Tome, Joao PhD	Hunter College
K award	Medicinal Chemistry
Venstrom, Jeffrey MD	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
K award	Oncology
Weisenberg, Scott MD	Weill Cornell Medical College
K award	Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

 

Travel authorization:

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