In addition, the University is committed to the development of a capital campaign as the lead project in an overall university campaign in the life sciences over the next five years. The goals of the Cancer Center campaign are to raise funds for endowment of eight professorships in cancer research as well as funds for laboratory start-up expenses for the professorships and their associated investigators. Campaign funds will be used to develop new shared resource laboratories and to endow a non-restricted fund to provide new project seed funding for individual investigators and collaborative groups of independent investigators. The expected outcome of all of these efforts will be a major expansion in the number of scientists engaged in basic cancer research at Massey Cancer Center, thus providing significant new opportunities for post-doctoral training in Cancer Biology under the auspices of this training grant. This program is funded, in part, by an NIH training grant and is available only to fellows with U.S. citizenship or permanent visas.
Support is available for up to three years of training.
As part of their training experience fellows are encouraged to apply for individual postdoctoral research awards to the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. Trainees are also provided with at least partial reimbursement for health insurance costs, travel to at least one national meeting per year, and tuition and fees for course work. Application Procedures Letters of recommendation from faculty members intimately knowledgeable about the candidate's research, including the thesis advisor along with graduate and undergraduate transcripts are required. Each fellow must have received his M.D., Ph.D., or have successfully defended the thesis prior to entry into the program. Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity employer.