This series of seminars provides high-yield, practical information about designing, funding, and conducting patient-facing oncology trials. Each year 7 seminars are offered. If you attend at least 6 within a 2-year time frame, you can receive the Concept to Completion Certificate of Completion. Open to senior fellows and early career faculty. Contact Jennifer Seuferer for more information. Register here. 

This seminar series includes career development and leadership topics to help physician scientists advance their careers. It's a 2-year curriculum with topics repeating every other year. All the seminars are listed below, however, for any given year, only half of them will take place (the other half will occur the following year).  They are scheduled in blocks (July - December and January - June).  Register here.

Next workshop will be in July 2025.

Lead by Michelle Arkin, PhD, Michael Cheng, MD, and Trever Bivona, MD/PhD

This workshop will provide training and a rigorous foundation for hypothesis-driven patient-focused research, covering clinical and preclinical iteration. Attendees will participate in interactive didactic and individualized discussions that culminate in a translational and/or clinical research protocol synopsis focused on testing a patient-centered hypothesis of their interest(s).

For most topics, participants will first view online lectures, followed by in-person, small group discussion. Participants must be able to participate in the in-person group discussions to join the course. Open to postdocs, graduate students, senior clinical fellows and early career faculty. 

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the stages of preclinical foundations
• Describe combination studies and when to use them
• Discuss pharmacodynamic studies and radionuclide therapies
• Examine drug development from the perspective of a clinical pharmacist
• Summarize clinical trial design