# Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activities

> **NIH NIH P30** · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $32,703

## Abstract

Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activities
 Project Summary
 Both innovation and implementation of cancer solutions requires development of a highly trained cancer-
focused workforce. To promote this objective, the PCCR tightly integrates sponsorship of a diverse array of
educational and professional development activities within its broad portfolio of research objectives. The
institutional home of PCCR, Purdue, presents an outstanding opportunity to further grow this cancer workforce.
Purdue is a leading R1 institution with an exceptional diversity of research expertise and a deep commitment to
its education mission. Purdue sponsors numerous programs that explicitly promote education and training. It
similarly supports many programs that promote professional development at all training levels, from
undergraduate to faculty. These programs, however, are typically not framed in a cancer-relevant context. In
order to have the greatest impact on the cancer workforce of the future, an overarching goal of the PCCR with
regards to education and professional development is to provide a cancer focus to existing Purdue-sponsored
activities that would not exist in the absence of the Center and thereby leverage these activities for a cancer-
relevant purpose. Similarly, by promoting cancer-relevant aspects of these educational and professional
development programs, the PCCR promotes opportunities available in the cancer research field that many of
the outstanding faculty, students and staff at Purdue would otherwise be unfamiliar with and, thereby, recruits
these individuals to the fight against cancer. In short, the PCCR both promotes its own programs and coordinates
with various Purdue academic and administrative units to explicitly leverage Purdue's abundant institutional
resources in order to have the largest impact on cancer-focused education and professional development.
Initiatives addressing education and professional development are grouped into four themes: 1) Building a
cancer-focused community of practice to facilitate interdisciplinary training that exploits the diversity of research
expertise at Purdue; 2) Promoting faculty development and helping to recruit top-tier basic scientists into cancer-
related research; 3) Promoting graduate student education and training by designing PCCR-sponsored activities
such that graduate student education and professional development are built into the experience; and 4)
Promoting undergraduate opportunities and thereby shape career paths and intentions of Purdue's extensive
undergraduate population. Specific examples of PCCR activities/programs include: 1) a bioinformatics training
program that targets graduate students; 2) a Continuing Umbrella of Research Experience (CURE)-funded
summer research program for graduate students who are underrepresented minorities; 3) a program for faculty
and postdocs in the physical sciences that promotes cancer-related research and embeds them in a clinical
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10024907
- **Project number:** 2P30CA023168-40
- **Recipient organization:** PURDUE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** JOSEPH P OGAS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $32,703
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10024907

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10024907, Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activities (2P30CA023168-40). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10024907. Licensed CC0.

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