Goals of the Study & Expected Outcomes
Goals of the Study
The goals of this study are:
- To assess the short-term outcomes of the V-XII funding cycles (1999-2006) of the CBCRP Postdoctoral Fellowship Award program.
- To build on the data from the 2001 Postdoctoral Fellowship evaluation, and get a more complete picture of the award program.
- To improve the CBCRP Postdoctoral Fellowship award program.
Expected Outcomes
- Awardees will gain career development skills important in their pursuit of careers as independent researchers.
- Awardees will publish articles in peer reviewed journals, file for patents, and give presentations at meetings from their funded project during and in the years following their fellowship, and complete their postdoctoral training.
- A majority of awardees will move onto either academic faculty positions or scientist positions within industry. Positions will be in breast cancer or other fields of research.
- Fellows will leverage work done with their CBCRP funding into additional funding for subsequent breast cancer research.
- Mentors will leverage work done by fellows into additional funding for breast cancer research..
