# Career Enhancement Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2023 · $96,225

## Abstract

CAREER ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (CEP): ABSTRACT
The Career Enhancement Program provides a highly structured mechanism to select and mentor junior
investigators interested in careers in prostate cancer research. The Career Enhancement Program (CEP)
uses several mechanisms to recruit these investigators including emails, letters to department chairs and web
site announcements. In addition, the Directors of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and the
University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center advertise the CEP when recruiting junior investigators
to their respective Institutions. CEP investigators are selected after careful review of their credentials, their
proposed projects and their potential to develop an independent career in prostate cancer research. Career
Enhancement investigators are clinicians or basic scientists from biomedical science departments at
Northwestern University, University of Chicago and NorthShore University HealthSystem. The fact that the
awardees come from a variety of departments provides a source of diversity and scientific expertise to
members of the SPORE Program.
The Career Enhancement Program has flexibility in terms of offering awards and the length of the award.
However, there is a consistent and highly-structured process for solicitation and selection of CEP investigators
and a good tracking system for monitoring their progress. The specific aims of the Career Enhancement
Program are:
1. To solicit and select career enhancement investigators through a highly structured process
2. To mentor and continuously evaluate career enhancement investigators through individual meetings with
 mentors and bi-annual presentations at SPORE investigator meetings
3. To cultivate new faculty to embark on careers in prostate cancer research to ensure a future source of
 talented, diverse investigators committed to prostate cancer research.
4. To maintain the administrative structure for the Career Enhancement Program

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10696058
- **Project number:** 5P50CA180995-08
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** William J Catalona
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $96,225
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2015-08-18 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10696058

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10696058, Career Enhancement Program (5P50CA180995-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10696058. Licensed CC0.

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