# Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · 2024 · $106,095

## Abstract

CANCER RESEARCH TRAINING AND EDUCATION COORDINATION
 PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) is overseen by Edward Nelson, MD, Associate
Director for Cancer Research Training & Education, who coordinates and supports research education and
training activities within the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) and throughout the University
of California, Irvine (UCI) in keeping with the matrixed structure of the Cancer Center. The mission of the CFCCC
is to Discover, Teach, and Heal within the broad discipline of cancer medicine and to reduce the burden of cancer
through research, education, patient care and community outreach within our Catchment Area.
The activities of the CRTEC support cancer research exposure, education and career development across the
spectrum of high school students, undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, medical
students, clinical fellows, faculty, clinicians, and community healthcare professionals. The goal of CRTEC is to
strengthen CFCCC and UCI as the preeminent resource: i) to provide rigorous training in, and conduct of, cancer
research; ii) to provide career enhancement activities that prepare all trainees for productive careers as cancer
researchers and/or healthcare professionals; and iii) to support a community of cancer care professionals in
providing quality care as partners in alleviating the burden of cancer in our Catchment Area. The CRTEC
component leverages and coordinates CFCCC, UCI, and extramurally-supported activities for these purposes.
Specific activities reside within discrete elements of the CFCCC such as Community Outreach and Engagement,
the three CFCCC Research programs, the Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials & Research, and CRTEC itself.
CRTEC cultivates the pipeline of potential cancer researchers, promotes the advancement of junior and
established researchers in basic, translational, clinical, and population cancer science, and specifically seeks to
utilize the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of UCI and our Catchment Area to support the cancer research
career development of under-represented populations. By engaging, inspiring, and training gender and ethnically
diverse cancer researchers, CRTEC positions CFCCC to better address the lack of diversity in the biomedical
workforce. Through the Cancer Research Training & Education Committee chaired by Nelson, CRTEC leverages
pilot grant programs (both internally- and externally-supported) and an extensive mentorship network, including
unique components developed at UCI and the CFCCC, to advance the careers of the next generation of cancer
researchers. As the UCI College of Health Sciences (COHS) continues to expand with four schools and five
institutes and centers of health, CRTEC will take advantage of the COHS mission to provide integrated
healthcare to foster and develop unique transdisciplinary cancer research career enhancement programs and
further estab...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10816404
- **Project number:** 5P30CA062203-26
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE
- **Principal Investigator:** EDWARD L. NELSON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $106,095
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-11 → 2027-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10816404

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10816404, Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (5P30CA062203-26). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10816404. Licensed CC0.

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