The Sheila and David Fuente Graduate Program in Cancer Biology is a University-wide interdisciplinary training program that draws upon clinical and basic scientists from multiple departments, schools, and colleges of the University of Miami. The scientific focus is broadly cancer research with an emphasis on fundamental cellular processes and the derangement of normal pathways in cancer etiology and progression. Identification of novel diagnostics, therapeutic targets and mechanisms are major research areas. The Program emphasizes cross-disciplinary approaches encompassing novel concepts and state-of-the–art techniques of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, proteomics, structural biology, cell biology and molecular medicine.
The Program strives to integrate students into the extensive and rapidly expanding clinical and translational research programs of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. A unique aspect of the training experience is the two-tiered mentoring plan. In addition to the primary research mentor, each student selects a Sylvester clinical faculty mentor . The “physician mentor” introduces students to clinically relevant issues of diagnosis, management and treatment of cancer patients as well as to clinical research approaches. The goal of the Program is to provide multidisciplinary education and a uniquely rich training environment in cancer biology that reinforces the interrelationships of biological discovery and clinical application.
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