CSC Lab Member Betsy Rolland and Professor Charlotte Lee have received an award in the amount of $185,866 from the National Institutes of Health for their proposal \u201cThe Role of Coordinating Centers in Collaborative Cancer-Epidemiology Studies.\u201d Granted through the Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program of the National Cancer Institute\u2019s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, this project will investigate how different types of coordinating centers support multi-institutional cancer-epidemiology research projects.<\/p>\n
Rolland and Lee will focus their investigation on coordinating centers (CCs) at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle, WA. FHCRC\u2019s Public Health Sciences division contains significant expertise in the area of building and managing CCs, yet that expertise has not been captured in one place. Through this pilot project, Rolland and Lee propose to study in detail at least six and possibly up to ten CCs, including the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer Centers (TREC), Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO) and the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN), as well as drawing on Rolland\u2019s own experience running the Asia Cohort Consortium Coordinating Center. Further, they will send a survey to CCs running cancer-epidemiology studies at other centers, especially comprehensive cancer care centers around the US, and interview project staff of these non-FHCRC CCs.<\/p>\n
Using these data, Rolland and Lee will craft models of the research projects themselves and models of the CCs that have evolved to meet each specific project\u2019s needs. They will compare how different CCs are run and then develop metrics that can be used both to evaluate a CC\u2019s performance as well as to predict a CC\u2019s chances of success. From these models and metrics, they will develop a toolkit that a new collaborative project can use to build an effective CC. Finally, Rolland and Lee will develop a modular course for CC project management teams that can give them the information they need to build a successful CC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CSC Lab Member Betsy Rolland and Professor Charlotte Lee have received an award in the amount of $185,866 from the National Institutes of Health for their proposal \u201cThe Role of Coordinating Centers in Collaborative Cancer-Epidemiology Studies.\u201d Granted through the Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program of the National Cancer Institute\u2019s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, this project will investigate how different types of coordinating centers support multi-institutional cancer-epidemiology research projects. Rolland and Lee will focus their investigation on coordinating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberinfrastructure","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}