Program Overview

K12 Paul Calabresi Career Development for Clinical & Translational Oncology Program

Overview

The K12 Paul Calabresi Career Development for Clinical & Translational Oncology Program is designed to provide training and clinical oncology research activities for scholars. The program requires a significant commitment of time and effort from the scholars.

Program Requirements

• Professional Effort: K12 Calabresi Scholars are expected to devote 75% of their full-time effort, for two years, to the training and clinical oncology research activities of the program.
• Mentorship: Scholars will select three program mentors: one primary mentor and two secondary mentors. Each mentoring team must include a practicing medical oncologist.
• Program Milestones: Within each Scholar's career development plan, he/she will be expected to complete three different but related milestones.
  • Design and initiate a clinical cancer therapy trial to answer a biological hypothesis-based clinical research question.
  • Complete at least two publishable research reports.
  • Create a fully developed grant application and submit it to a funding agency.

Training

• In-Depth Clinical & Laboratory Training: Scholars will immerse in a longitudinal clinical and laboratory experience that will last for the remainder of the time the Scholar is in the program.
• The focus of the program is primarily on the development of a patient-oriented researcher.
• Scholars will be expected to be familiar with the conduct, quality control, and interpretation of assays pertinent to their clinical research protocol.

National Meeting

• K12 Scholars will be required to attend a national professional meeting each year.

Program Details

• The program is designed for M.D. and Ph.D. scholars.
• M.D. Scholars are encouraged to wait three months before beginning their clinical practice if joining the program.
• Salary supplementation may not be from federal funds unless specifically authorized by the federal program from which such funds are derived.
• The program will provide a foundation for scholars to complete the required milestones and develop a successful cancer research career.