The CPRIT training grant has served and will continue to attract additional talented trainees to Texas. These trainees complement the trainees in our existing federally supported training programs. This CPRIT training program is comprehensive in scope with the following types of trainees: 1) Summer students recruited from across the U.S. as part of BCM’s nationally recognized SMART program, 2) Graduate students recruited as part of a Cancer and Cell Biology Program with the option of having a clinical mentor to help bring about clinical translation of key scientific discoveries as part of “The Clinical Translational Research Certificate of Added Qualification Program”, 3) Medical students, i...

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The CPRIT training grant has served and will continue to attract additional talented trainees to Texas. These trainees complement the trainees in our existing federally supported training programs. This CPRIT training program is comprehensive in scope with the following types of trainees: 1) Summer students recruited from across the U.S. as part of BCM’s nationally recognized SMART program, 2) Graduate students recruited as part of a Cancer and Cell Biology Program with the option of having a clinical mentor to help bring about clinical translation of key scientific discoveries as part of “The Clinical Translational Research Certificate of Added Qualification Program”, 3) Medical students, including those in the Medical Student Research Track, as well as dual degree MD-PhD students in our nationally recognized Medical Scientist Training Program, 5) Postdoctoral fellows who will be recruited to the laboratories of the diverse training faculty, who have been organized into both basic and translational biology components as part of the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center and 6) Clinical Postdoctoral Trainees in Adult and Pediatric Medical Oncology, Cell and Gene Therapy and in Breast Cancer. These CPRIT trainees span the entire spectrum from college undergraduates to postgraduate PhD and MD trainees, and the cross-fertilization of trainees at different levels will enhance the training experience. In the past ten years the trainees have included 191 summer students, 51 predoctoral students, 14 postdoctoral fellows and 20 clinical fellows. The Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center (DLDCCC) has well-funded clinical and basic science faculty with a total grant support of $157 million of cancer relevant research funding. These are all members of specific programmatic groups within the DLDCCC and members of several of the training programs listed above.

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