# Career Enhancement Program (CEP)

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · 2024 · $84,673

## Abstract

SUMMARY: CAREER ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
The Career Enhancement Program (CEP) is a critical component of the MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD
Anderson) Brain Cancer SPORE because it provides funding for early-stage basic scientist, physician-
scientists, and clinical trialists to develop independent careers in brain cancer research, guided by senior
 mentors with outstanding track-records in translational research. The program also supports established faculty
 who wish to enhance or refocus their careers on translational brain cancer research. Therefore, the CEP seeks
to:
1) Recruit and train early-stage physicians and scientists to become outstanding translational investigators in
 the field of neuro-oncology.
2) Recruit established faculty who wish to enhance or refocus their careers on translational brain cancer
research
3) Provide funding for projects of early-stage investigators with the goal of obtaining the necessary preliminary
 data to secure large independent research grants (e.g., R01) or to become full projects in the SPORE.
4) Provide outstanding mentorship to guide recipients to develop the intellectual, communication, organizational
 and technical skills required to be productive investigators in translational brain cancer research;
5) Teach awardees basic principles of cancer biology that are not commonly included in clinical training or PhD
programs;
6) Recruit women and underrepresented groups into the program, as a special emphasis.
These objectives are achieved through a strong mentorship program in which awardees not only receive funds
for specific research proposals, but also are mentored on how to excel in translational brain cancer research.
Our CEP has successfully expanded the brain cancer research community and will continue to do so during this
renewal SPORE cycle. Of the 20 awardees in the past two cycles, 8 (40%) were women or members of minority
groups, and an impressive 60% have gone on to secure independent peer-reviewed grant funding, and to
establish impressive research careers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10847574
- **Project number:** 2P50CA127001-16
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Juan Fueyo
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $84,673
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2008-09-01 → 2029-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10847574

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10847574, Career Enhancement Program (CEP) (2P50CA127001-16). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10847574. Licensed CC0.

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