![]() C-REP prepares young scientists to enter a diverse research workforce. C-REP provides comprehensive research training opportunities for underrepresented minority PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in translational cancer disparities research.Kevin Williams, PhD (NCCU) and Gayathri Devi, PhD, (Duke) lead and collaborate on this projectĬancer Research Education Program (C-REP).The long-term outcomes of our work are expected to have a significant impact on understanding and reducing IBC cancer health disparities among racial groups. Our research is relevant to public health as an understanding of genetic factors involved in IBC will inform clinical practice and ultimately lead to novel treatment approaches for IBC. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is one of the most lethal forms of breast cancer and is particularly devastating in disadvantaged minority women who have both a higher incidence and poorer survival.Steve Patierno, PhD (Duke), Rob Onyenwoke, PhD (NCCU) and Jenny Freedman, PhD (Duke) are leads and collaborators for this project.Our goal is to reduce the number of African American men who are diagnosed with and die from prostate cancer. This work will pave the way toward development of new approaches for preventing, diagnosing and treating aggressive prostate cancer. We aim to understand the underlying genetic differences between African American and white prostate cancer and the importance of these differences to prostate cancer aggressiveness and response to treatment. ![]() African Americans are diagnosed with and die from prostate cancer more often than whites.Translational Research in Cancer Disparities Vince Chandler, MPA, NCCU Program Manager To find out more, or to request an application for C-REP, please contact us:ĭonna Crabtree, PhD, Duke University Program Manager Translational Cancer Disparities Research.C-REP leverages a variety of resources at both NCCU and Duke to recruit and train underrepresented minorities in the following areas: Establishing the Cancer Research Education Program (C-REP), which rigorously addresses career development across doctoral trainees and postdoctoral fellows.Understanding mechanisms of inflammatory breast cancer, a highly malignant breast cancer subtype occurring predominantly in African American women.Characterizing the genetic differences of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men to improve screening, treatment and outcomes.Supporting translational research in cancer disparities.We are achieving our goals in several ways: This partnership, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, brings together many researchers from both North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and Duke and is developing infrastructure that targets translational cancer disparities research.
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