# Program for Oncology Workforce Education and Research Experience at Dartmouth

> **NIH NIH R25** · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · 2021 · $172,448

## Abstract

Abstract POWERED
The proposed Program for Oncology Workforce Education and Research at Dartmouth (POWERED), will
identify, recruit and train underrepresented minority undergraduates for independent careers in cancer
research with specific attention to related scientific and life/career skills. Qualified students will be from groups
underrepresented in biomedical research. They will receive a holistic multi-modal two-year intensive training
experience spanning the summer following sophomore year through their senior year. We propose building on
the foundation we have developed with three years of an NCI-funded P30 “CURE” supplement that introduced
undergrads from underrepresented minorities to oncology research at Dartmouth. POWERED is a two-year
program including two 8-week summers (16 weeks total) of full-time mentored research at Dartmouth's Norris
Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) boosted by 4 semesters (16 weeks each) of part-time coordinated scientific
research at their home institutions. Considerable effort will be made to customize each participant's program
according to their scientific interests in cancer. Each student will have a mentor at their home laboratory and at
NCCC. Together, with the PI, they will form Individual Mentoring Team(s) to track the progress of each student.
Faculty from colleges and universities throughout New Hampshire that make up New Hampshire INBRE, (NH-
INBRE Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence), will recruit and nominate promising
underrepresented minority students to apply and subsequently arranged for mentoring the selected students
as research trainees at the home institution. A specific emphasis in the senior year is securing post-graduation
work or training in cancer research or a related biomedical field. A set of Educational Tools to achieve the
Specific Aims will be developed and evaluated using formative and summative measures to allow for dynamic
change as appropriate to meet the Specific Aims and dissemination to other educators.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10251966
- **Project number:** 5R25CA250956-02
- **Recipient organization:** DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
- **Principal Investigator:** STEVEN FIERING
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $172,448
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10251966

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10251966, Program for Oncology Workforce Education and Research Experience at Dartmouth (5R25CA250956-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10251966. Licensed CC0.

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