# Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · 2024 · $141,033

## Abstract

CANCER RESEARCH TRAINING AND EDUCATION COORDINATION: ABSTRACT
The Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC) is Oklahoma’s only NCI-designated cancer center and plays a critical
mission-driven role in training the next generation of cancer biomedical researchers and oncology health
professionals for the state (the SCC catchment area) and for the nation. To advance this goal, the SCC’s
Education, Training and Career Enhancement (ETCE) Core, led by Rajagopal Ramesh, PhD, SCC Associate
Director for Education and Training, provides important oversight, coordination and support for a wide range of
educational and mentorship activities for students and trainees in all career stages (high school,
undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and junior investigators) conducting cancer-
related projects. The SCC has made significant investments in ETCE infrastructure and resources and has
leveraged OUHSC institutional resources to promote and advance training and career development. During the
reporting period (2017-21), ETCE has made significant progress in advancing its goal and aims, as is
highlighted through increases to training funding. Total peer-reviewed training funding increased by 109%,
from $983K to $2.05M, since last CCSG (annual, direct cost). This includes seven new NIH K awards, two new
NIH F awards, and two new P20 Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBREs). A third new $7.5M
(total, DC) COBRE grant to mentor junior SCC cancer imaging researchers started 2/15/22 (new funding not
included in totals). Total all training funding increased by 115%, from $1.07M to $2.29M. The overall number of
all training projects increased from 11 (2016) to 33 (2021). With ETCE support, the SCC obtained an American
Cancer Society-Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG), the only such grant awarded nationally by ACS in
2019, to support young investigator research (the IRG includes an ACS supplement to support one investigator
from an underrepresented minority [URM] group). In addition, the SCC received funding for an ACS Diversity in
Cancer Research (ACS-DICR) summer student program to support eight URM undergraduate students. The
ETCE Core administers summer research programs for high school (CURE, Jr.) and undergraduate (CURE)
students, and it has partnered with multiple institutional entities at OUHSC to bring a cancer research focus to
various other summer internship (e.g., CRISP, INBRE, NARCH, SURE) as well as mentoring (INBRE, COBRE,
OSCTR) programs. As is highlighted in the Research Strategy, ETCE works closely with SCC research
leadership, including the Associate Directors for Community Outreach and Engagement and Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion, to enhance the participation of women and persons from historically underrepresented groups in
education pipeline and career development programs (ETCE Specific Aim 3).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10838546
- **Project number:** 5P30CA225520-07
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Rajagopal Ramesh
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $141,033
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-05-01 → 2028-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10838546

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10838546, Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (5P30CA225520-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10838546. Licensed CC0.

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