The Career Enhancement Program (CEP)

The Career Enhancement Program (CEP) represents an essential component of the UW Prostate Cancer SPORE’s overarching goal to advance translational research in prostate oncology. Intensifying translational research requires expanding the pool of independent investigators who possess the knowledge and training to seamlessly research from bench and bedside. The CEP provides a formal mechanism to leverage the expertise and resources available at UW for the purpose of training a new generation of translational scientists focused on prostate cancer.

The CEP may support up to four awardees in any given year. Awardees receive $50,000 per year (for up to two years) to support their research career enhancement activities. In addition, each CEP trainee receives guidance on cross-campus opportunities for research and didactic training (e.g., NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award) that help foster the development of knowledge, skills, professional attitudes, and experiences required for a successful academic career in translational cancer research. This program benefits from strong leadership, deep cross-disciplinary expertise, individualized clinical and scientific curricula, seasoned mentors, and well-defined processes for recruitment and assessment. By engaging with investigators from across the Carbone Cancer Center, the CEP can also leverage the institutional strengths of one of the top research universities in the country, whose cancer researchers span such diverse departments as biomedical engineering, pharmacy, nursing, medical physics, and the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research.