# Enhancing Cancer Focused Education for Tomorrow’s Workforce – Coordinating Center

> **NIH NIH U24** · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $544,979

## Abstract

Project Summary
The Coordinating Center for the NCI Awardee Skills Development Consortium (NASDC CC), entitled
“Enhancing Cancer Focused Education for Tomorrow's Workforce – Coordinating Center” will build the
infrastructure necessary for the good conduct and success of the five UE5 institutions. A series of courses offered
by these UE5 awardees will help mentor junior faculty awarded new NCI Ks and Rs grants. These UE5s, together
with the NCI program and the NASDC CC will form a consortium that will support funded junior faculty in
establishing and maintaining successful independent academic cancer research careers, in compliance with the
21st Century Cures Act. The NASDC CC will be overseen by a multi-PI team, Drs. Claire Verschraegen and
Rebecca Jackson, who are both senior scientists with years of experience in managing network awards. Three
specific aims will be implemented by the NASDC CC. The first aim will centralize and support UE5 course
administration, including trainee recruitment, engagement, and implementation of courses. The second aim will
create and coordinate network activities of a NASDC Steering Committee (SC) which will run the consortium.
The NASDC CC will support the organization of various meetings, courses, and other initiatives approved by the
NASDC SC. The NASDC CC will communicate all information within the consortium. The third aim will create
and implement a comprehensive evaluation system to measure the success of the UE5 courses and the NASDC
program both short- and long-term. The PIs will hire an Operation Manager to administer four implementation
cores of the NASDC CC: 1) The Leadership Core will oversee and administer all NASDC CC activities. 2) The
Marketing Core will advertise the NASDC courses and help select the participants through a peer-review
mechanism, with a focus on diversity enhancement. We will reach about 1500 junior NCI awardees, also known
as the clientele, to help them become the cancer key opinion leaders of tomorrow. 3) The Operation
Management Core will support the conduct of the courses, to include venues, travels, contracts, catering, data
collection, and general information for participants. 4) The Evaluation and Data Analysis Core will develop
assessments for the courses, the participants, and the whole NASDC, by using the Kirkpatrick model and a logic
model for program evaluation. The Operation Manager will work with the webmaster to provide a communication
platform for all aspects of the consortium, and the data analyst for the REDCap data collection tool (a new
Scorecard we will create) to be used for academic research by the members of the consortium. All data will be
shared and discussed with the NASDC SC to help mold the future of this new consortium. We will publish the
results of the analyses and use this information to refine the consortium infrastructure in future years.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10135030
- **Project number:** 5U24CA246758-02
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** REBECCA D JACKSON
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $544,979
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-04-01 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10135030

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10135030, Enhancing Cancer Focused Education for Tomorrow’s Workforce – Coordinating Center (5U24CA246758-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10135030. Licensed CC0.

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