# Career Enhancement Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER · 2024 · $80,455

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The Career Enhancement Program (CEP) is an essential component of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Prostate
Cancer SPORE that serves to sustain and enhance our mission by attracting and nurturing new and talented
research faculty. The CEP will continue to implement a strategy that has successfully developed clinical, basic,
and population scientists for productive careers in translational prostate cancer research.
The Specific Aims of the CEP are to:
1. Provide research support and collaborative expertise for junior faculty, advanced fellows, and established
 investigators who wish to either develop or refocus their careers on translational PC research;
2. Provide a coordinated system for mentoring faculty and advanced fellows pursuing PC research across a
 broad range of disciplines;
3. Create a framework in which investigators can gain exposure to and training in aspects of translational PC
 research outside their areas of expertise; and,
4. Attract and retain women, minorities, and early career junior faculty who can make key contributions to
 translational PC research at the institutions comprising the PNW Prostate SPORE.
The CEP will be coordinated between Fred Hutch (FH), the University of Washington (UW); the Prostate
Centre at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), part of the University of British Columbia (UBC); and,
Oregon Health Science University (OHSU). Our organizational structure works across sites and includes
recruitment and monitoring of candidates by a career enhancement committee, educational coordination
through a Conference and Education Committee, and access to more than 50 multidisciplinary investigators
both within and outside the SPORE whose research interests provide relevant experience in translational
prostate cancer research. The CEP educational program combines a wide spectrum of individual research
opportunities, formal educational courses, and a large number of conferences and seminars in translational
prostate cancer research. We plan to continue to recruit both qualified faculty members and senior research
fellows who wish to expand their work in translational prostate cancer research, focusing on the inclusion of
women and underrepresented minority applicants. In addition to SPORE grant support, this program will be
augmented by substantial institutional resources.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10919816
- **Project number:** 5P50CA097186-23
- **Recipient organization:** FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** PETER S NELSON
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $80,455
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2002-09-19 → 2028-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10919816

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10919816, Career Enhancement Program (5P50CA097186-23). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10919816. Licensed CC0.

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