The aim of Brown's Cancer Research Training program is to train the next generation of scientists to become highly successful, independently funded transdisciplinary NIH researchers in cancer prevention, control and population sciences. The focus is on the first three years of early research
career development, typically following completion of a postdoctoral fellowship within a traditional departmental structure (e.g. medicine, psychology, public health). Thus, upon completion of this program, the candidates will be between four and six years postgraduate and ideally positioned to obtain NCI funding. Trainees will receive mentorning from primary and secondary mentors from different disciplines and a highly individualized training plan with placement with ongoing cancer research programs.

This Cancer Research Training program capitalizes on the unique strengths and the cooperation of three major programs at Brown: (a) The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine including the Center for Weight Control and Diabetes Research in the Department of Psychiatry; (b) the Public Health Program including the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and the Center for
Statistical Sciences; and (c) the Brown University Oncology Group. The program is designed to foster understanding of the importance of tobacco addiction, diet, and physical activity and other behavioral/psychosocial actors in cancer prevention and control across the five phases of NCI
research (basic, preclinical, clinical, dissemination, and policy formation). The research training program includes three components: 1) supervised participation in the ongoing work of established research teams, one led by a primary mentor and the other by a secondary mentor from another
discipline; 2) participation in Brown’s MS or MPH program with courses in public health, behavioral medicine, and cancer biology; and 3) participation in a proseminar in behavioral medicine that focuses on transdisciplinary cancer prevention and control research.

Click here for and application and more information on our NCI R25 Faculty Training Program in Transdisciplinary Cancer Research.