Grant: Training Grant

The McGill Integrated Cancer Research Training Program (MICRTP) seeks to support the development of future scientific leaders with the mission of developing and maintaining a diverse educational program that stimulates and supports basic and clinical research training thus encouraging the translation of discoveries for the benefit of patients. Our vision is to bridge basic, translational and clinical Cancer research. This program will also promote the development of well-rounded scientists through the interdisciplinary activities offered to our trainees and the expansion of their management skills facilitating their participation in large-scale projects and biopharmaceutical initiatives. We propose to strengthen our programs by combining our existing programs, the Montreal Centre for Experimental Therapeutics in Cancer (MCETC) based at the Segal Cancer Centre (SCC), and the McGill Cancer Centre, now called the Goodman Cancer Centre (GCC), into one and supplementing critical skills needed by the next wave of cancer trainees. The program is intended to catalyze a change in graduate education for students, for faculty and for the institution by establishing innovative models of education. In bridging our efforts within and across multiple departments in our institutes and hospitals, we now have the opportunity to develop combined scientific workshops and symposia, thus providing a framework for integrating innovative research (basic, clinical and translational) with essential skills (ethics, knowledge translation, bioinformatics and professional skills). We believe that this dynamic program will provide trainees with the edge needed to become talented biomedical scientists and clinicians as well as leaders in Cancer research.