Title |
North Carolina A&T University-Wake Forest Cancer Center partnership (2 of 2)
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Institution |
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES, WINSTON-SALEM, NC
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Principal Investigator |
AKMAN, STEVEN
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NCI Program Director |
Carmen Moten
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Cancer Activity |
Comp Min Biomed Prog
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Division |
CRCHD
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Funded Amount |
$103,226
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Project Dates |
09/25/2008 - 08/31/2012
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Fiscal Year |
2009
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Project Type |
Grant
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Research Topics w/ Percent Relevance |
Cancer Types w/ Percent Relevance |
Cancer (100.0%)
Aging (6.3%)
Chemoprevention (25.0%)
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Brain (25.0%)
Prostate (25.0%)
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Research Type |
Resources and Infrastructure
Resources and Infrastructure Related to Cancer Control, Survivorship, and Outcomes Research
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Abstract |
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This P20 proposal presents a research and educational partnership between the Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center (WFUCCC) and the Departments of Biology and Chemistry of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University (NC A&T). The objectives of the partnership are: (1) to foster cancer research collaborations between WFUCCC and NC A&T, especially research focused on cancer disparities and to facilitate the career development of minority cancer research faculty at NC A&T through collaborations with and mentoring provided by the WFUCCC; (2) to foster interest in obtaining a PhD in cancer biology among minority undergraduate and Master's degree students at NC A&T. To achieve the first objective, the P20 will provide pilot funds for two collaborative research projects: (1) Drs. Suzy Torti and Yong Chen of the WFUCCC will mentor and collaborate with Dr. Marion Franks, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at NC A&T, on a project to synthesize and evaluate novel benzylidenes as prostate cancer chemopreventive agents; (2) Dr. Waldemar Debinski, Director of the Brain Tumor Center of the WFUCCC, will mentor and collaborate with Dr. Patrick Martin, Assistant Professor of Biology at NC A&T on a project to understand the role of transcription factor Fra1 in glioblastoma cell mobility and resistance to therapeutics. To achieve the second objective: (1) Selected RISE, MARC, and BLEND program undergraduates at NC A&T will participate in wet laboratory, computational biology, or health disparity outreach projects mentored by WFUCCC faculty; (2) Each pilot project team will select at least one NC A&T Master's degree student to ; participate in the project. The students will be offered the option of continued participation in the projects as PhD students in Cancer Biology at WFU; (3) WFUCCC and NC A&T faculty will collaborate to develop didactic teaching modules in cancer genomics and animal models of cancer for currently ongoing coursework at NC A&T. By the conclusion of the P20 it is expected that: (1) Drs. Franks and Martin and their WFUCCC collaborators will be writing joint RO1s; (2) The WFUCCC and NC A&T will be writing an R25 bridge application to support enrollment of NC A&T students in the PhD program in Cancer Biology at WFU. |