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Advanced Course

Application Information

members of the course stand in front of a large window overlooking snowy mountains in salt lake cityThe Advanced Course brings in world leaders in cancer disparities research skills for a 3.5-day intensive training and networking event. This course focuses on increasing skills for early-career cancer researchers to succeed on an academic career trajectory in an increasingly hypercompetitive funding climate.

Applications are collected online and course seats are filled on a rolling basis throughout the recruitment period based on candidate strengths and eligibility — apply as soon as possible to ensure you have a spot in the section.

Apply today before course seats are filled

Eligibility Criteria

The Advanced Course aims to enhance early career cancer researchers' technical and/or soft skills in areas that are critical for establishing and maintaining successful independent academic cancer research careers. The primary objective of these courses is to help participants maintain long-term productivity in their cancer research careers.

Researchers with active grants focused on cancer disparities research, or those who wish to increase their focus on cancer disparities, are encouraged to apply to the Advanced Course. This includes junior faculty such as assistant professors, instructors, research scientists or equivalent. To ensure that participants include adequate representation with respect to race, ethnicity, gender and disability, a recruitment plan was developed for this training course.

In order to be eligible for the Advanced Course, applicants must:

  • Be a PI, Co-I, or MPI on an active funded cancer research grant at the time they join the training course
  • Hold a doctoral degree from an accredited institution
  • Have a full-time faculty or scientist appointment — postdoctoral fellows transitioning to a faculty position will also be eligible provided they have an offer letter for a full-time faculty position
  • Be a United States citizen or permanent resident

NCI Awardee Skills Development Consortium

The Advanced Course on Cancer-Related Health Disparities Research, Mentoring, and Leadership was originally established as a UE5 member of the NCI Awardee Skills Development Consortium (NASDC) in 2020 at the University of Utah (5UE5CA246756-03.) Course contact PI Kola Okuyemi, MD, MPH and former MPI on the project, Mia Hashibe, PhD, created the Utah UE5 training program with feedback and support from four other UE5 training centers and one U24 coordinating center:

  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center — UE5 Short-Course Awardee
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — UE5 Short-Course Awardee
  • University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — UE5 Short-Course Awardee
  • The University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer Institute — UE5 Short-Course Awardee
  • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — U24 Data Coordination Center Awardee

The Advanced Course would like to thank all other members of the NASDC consortium and the NCI support members for their coordinated efforts to increase the careers of early-career cancer researchers, including the combined efforts to create course infrastructure, recruitment tactics, evaluation methodology, and training components that the current course continues to rely on under its new R25 funding mechanism (2R25CA246756-05).

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