# Surgical Oncology Basic Science and Translational Research Training Program.

> **NIH NIH T32** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $676,820

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) is one of the nation's
leading academic surgery departments, with a strong and uncompromising commitment to training the next
generation of academic surgeon-scientists. The Surgical Oncology Basic Science and Translational Research
Training Program is a critical component of this overall training goal. NCI support will provide up to eight
surgical trainees (i.e. postdoctoral trainees) from general surgery and other surgical subspecialties the
opportunity to develop essential skill sets in basic science, translational, and public health research. The
Surgical Oncology Research Training Program has evolved in parallel with a dynamic training environment at
WUSM, and currently takes advantage of unique resources in the Department of Surgery, the Siteman Cancer
Center, the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, the Department of Surgery's Division of Public
Health Sciences, and the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences to develop customized and highly
structured formal didactic and mentored research experiences for individual surgical trainees. The success of
the program is demonstrated by the important research accomplishments made by trainees working with
program faculty, and the long-term success of trainees in academic medicine. 21/33 trainees (64%) who have
completed the research training program and their clinical training in the last fifteen years remain in academic
medicine, significantly better than published metrics (16-44%). The Surgical Oncology Research Training
Program continues to evolve, and we restructured the program in 2014. Changes made at that time included
additions to the program leadership, development of two distinct research tracks (basic science track, and
translational research/public health/clinical effectiveness track), and reduction in the number of training slots to
allow for an increase in the tuition budget. These changes have been very successful, and will ensure that the
Surgical Oncology Research Training Program will continue to maintain excellence at the forefront of two
different surgical oncology research paradigms, basic science research, and translational/public health/clinical
effectiveness research. NCI support will allow WUSM to continue this highly successful research training
program, providing the next generation of surgeon-scientists with the research training required to succeed in
an increasingly competitive research environment.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10460968
- **Project number:** 5T32CA009621-34
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** TIMOTHY J. EBERLEIN
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $676,820
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1988-07-05 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10460968

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10460968, Surgical Oncology Basic Science and Translational Research Training Program. (5T32CA009621-34). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10460968. Licensed CC0.

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