# Career Enhancement Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · 2020 · $74,222

## Abstract

Career Enhancement Program
ABSTRACT
The goal of the Career Enhancement Program is to prepare physicians and scientists for independent
careers in translational research in sarcoma. It is our hope that the women and men funded through this
process will spend their professional lifetimes conducting translational research specifically in this set of
diseases and that they will become leaders in their fields of interest. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center (MSK) is ideally suited for this task, with substantial physical and faculty resources and more than a
century of experience training physicians and scientists of the highest quality. Our institutional
environment includes a K12 for translational science training and a K30 for the training of clinical
investigators. In the Career Enhancement Program, we will enhance the formal training programs that
already exist at MSK. We will encourage more physicians to focus on translational research in sarcoma. We
will also provide 1-year partial support for five new junior faculty investigators who commit their careers to
translational research in sarcoma. In our efforts to recruit these investigators, we will draw upon existing
programs at MSK that recruit, train, and mentor scientists and physician-scientists. We will budget at least
$75,000 yearly for this program, including $50,000 from the SPORE award itself and at least $25,000 in funds
pledged by MSK. The CEP will work closely with department heads and fellowship leaders to match the
$75,000 per year of CEP funds with other institutional funding sources (e.g. philanthropic funding)
available through the respective Departments to add an additional $50,000 to $75,000 per year. We
anticipate that this supplementation will bring total funding for such a new faculty recruit to $125,000 to
$150,000, which will provide additional incentive for these graduating fellows to accept new faculty
positions in sarcoma and to commit at least 80% of their time to sarcoma research. To continually educate
both trainees and SPORE staff, we will utilize regularly scheduled conferences, data presentations by
members of the SPORE research projects and cores, and presentations by invited speakers. The Career
Enhancement Program will be directed by a Career Enhancement Committee, chaired by Dr. Meera
Hameed and co-chaired by Dr. Hedvig Hricak.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10016102
- **Project number:** 5P50CA217694-03
- **Recipient organization:** SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH
- **Principal Investigator:** Meera Hameed
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $74,222
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10016102

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10016102, Career Enhancement Program (5P50CA217694-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10016102. Licensed CC0.

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