# Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activities

> **NIH NIH P30** · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · 2021 · $58,926

## Abstract

CANCER RESEARCH CAREER ENHANCEMENT AND RELATED ACTIVITIES PROJECT SUMMARY 
The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (MCCC) embraces career enhancement and education as one of its core 
missions. NIH-funded training mechanisms and Mayo Clinic philanthropy support cancer researchers at all 
career levels. Faculty and trainees benefit from MCCC seminars and conferences that provide ongoing 
state-of-the-art education updates. The specific aims of the MCCC Career Enhancement and Related Activities 
are as follows: 1) to mentor and develop the next generation of high-achieving cancer researchers, and 2) to 
provide MCCC trainees and faculty with continuing research and medical education to further their career 
development and to support the MCCC mission of improving cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and 
therapy. The MCCC is well-positioned to accomplish these aims, as demonstrated by its 1) 12 NIH-funded 
training programs whose trainees have amassed 600+ cancer-focused publications this past grant cycle; 2) 13 
competitive, philanthropically- funded, MCCC grant mechanisms that award $50,000 to $100,000 of annual 
support to each junior investigator 3) the competitive, philanthropically-funded Eagles mechanism that annually 
awards over $500,000 in direct research funding, primarily to junior cancer investigators; 4) career 
development opportunities within the MCCC's SPORE's, which forge strong alignment between MCCC 
research priorities and the interests of junior investigators; 5) institutional salary subsidization of trainees on K 
awards ($20M allocated since 2012 to cancer researchers) and financial incentives for junior MCCC trainees to 
apply for NIH funding, both of which are intended to retain junior cancer investigators within academic 
medicine; and 6) a commitment to diversity that permeates the MCCC's career enhancement and educational 
efforts and that allows the MCCC to train, to recruit, and to promote high-achieving cancer researchers. In view 
of its commitment to career enhancement and education, the MCCC is poised to accomplish its specific aims 
and to train the next generation of cancer researchers who will conduct ground-breaking research that will 
improve the lives of cancer patients.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10113575
- **Project number:** 5P30CA015083-47
- **Recipient organization:** MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Rafael Fonseca
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $58,926
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-25 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10113575

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10113575, Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activities (5P30CA015083-47). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10113575. Licensed CC0.

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