# Career Enhancement Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · CORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH · 2021 · $79,875

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY (Career Enhancement Program)
The goal of the Career Enhancement Program (CEP) is to provide training and guidance for academic physician-
scientists, clinician-investigators, and laboratory-based scientists who wish to dedicate their career and research
efforts to translational cancer epigenetics research. To achieve this goal, the CEP will pursue the following
specific aims:
 1. Recruit, train, and mentor physicians, scientists, and senior postdoctoral fellows to become excellent
 investigators focused on cancer epigenetics translational research.
 2. Educate awardees in all the basic principles of cancer epigenetics biology, including molecular, cellular
 and systems biology, drug development, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics studies, and basic
 principles of biostatistics and bioinformatics.
 3. Provide a firm foundation for awardees in the specific area of cancer epigenetics translational and early
 clinical research.
These objectives will be achieved through strong mentorship in which awardees will be instructed in the principles
of clinical, basic, and translational cancer epigenetics research. Specific areas of education may include scientific
and clinical methods, biomedical ethics, statistical design and analysis, bioinformatics, biology, biochemistry,
genetics, epidemiology, and other areas relevant to individual projects. Mentorship will include laboratory-based
investigators, clinical-translational investigators, biostatisticians, bioinformaticians and epidemiologists. Mentors
from within the Epigenetic Therapy SPORE, the Van Andel Institute-Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetics Dream
Team, Coriell Institute, the Van Andel Institute, and institutions of PIs and members of the IAB and EAB will
provide the expertise required for the development of strong, productive translational research skills.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10269647
- **Project number:** 1P50CA254897-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** CORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
- **Principal Investigator:** Jean-Pierre J. Issa
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $79,875
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-08-16 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10269647

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10269647, Career Enhancement Program (1P50CA254897-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10269647. Licensed CC0.

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