# Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activitites

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2024 · $190,916

## Abstract

CANCER RESEARCH CAREER ENHANCEMENT AND RELATED ACTIVITIES ABSTRACT 
Training future cancer researchers across the science spectrum and providing a rich mentoring environment 
for faculty of diverse interests and backgrounds is central to realizing MCC’s goal of fostering high-impact 
discoveries that transform the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer. MCC faculty participate in a 
pipeline of outstanding training programs and activities that enhance the skills of the current and the next 
generation of cancer researchers. These efforts are aimed at providing high-quality training that increase the 
ability to make novel discoveries about the biology of cancer, translate these into novel therapeutic strategies, 
and facilitate their application by MCC and community clinicians and health care workers. The goal of the MCC 
Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activities (CRCERA) core is to attract talented individuals 
into the field of cancer research as early as possible (beginning with high school and extending through 
undergraduate, graduate/medical student, postgraduate/postdoctoral, faculty, and healthcare providers in our 
community), and to support and enhance the research skills and performance of each person pursuing a 
career in cancer research. The Core’s mission is to support trainees at all levels in their cancer-focused career 
by innovating in career enhancement activities. It also aims to attract and support a diverse and robust cancer 
research workforce throughout the San Diego area. CRCERA will accomplish these goals by pursuing the 
following Specific Aims: 1) To provide an easily accessible conduit for high school and undergraduate 
students, including underrepresented minorities, towards laboratory or clinical-based cancer research careers. 
2) To provide multidisciplinary cancer research and training opportunities for graduate students, MD/PhD 
candidates, and medical students. 3) To provide career enhancement activities, funding support and 
mentorship for postgraduate fellows and all levels of faculty. 4) To provide professional development activities 
in cancer care for community health care partners. MCC’s approach to research education and training is 
based on a combination of: i) attracting talented individuals into the field by engaging them in cancer research 
starting even at the high school level; ii) providing a myriad of cancer research education and training 
opportunities in all the major disciplines that relate to the biology, prevention, detection, treatment of cancer; 
and to the quality of life of cancer patients; iii) offering formal degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, 
and post-graduate levels in the basic, translational, population, and clinical sciences; iv) creating MCC- 
managed programs that reflect the center’s commitment to diversity and disparities research and to continuing 
education for community health care workers; and, v) partnering with consortium and other ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11072194
- **Project number:** 3P30CA023100-37S2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Quyen Nguyen
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $190,916
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1996-07-01 → 2026-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11072194

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11072194, Cancer Research Career Enhancement and Related Activitites (3P30CA023100-37S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11072194. Licensed CC0.

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