prost cancer spore careers

Career Development Program

The Career Development Program will provide funding for investigators with outstanding research potential who wish to pursue careers in translational research in prostate cancer. Candidates will be either new investigators, with sufficient experience and demonstrated interest in prostate cancer research, or established investigators who wish to change their research direction into prostate cancer investigation. The investigators will devote full time to research but should also propose projects with clear translational potential. Applicants may be senior post doctoral fellows with demonstrated interest and expertise, young investigators including new faculty recruitments, and established investigators. SPORE funding will be augmented by Department of Urology designated prostate cancer funds. Two to three candidates will be selected for one year funding with the possibility of an additional year funding extension.

UCLA Specialized Program of Research
Excellence (SPORE) in Prostate Cancer
Career Development Program

2007 - 2008 Awardees:

Samson Chow, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
“Infectivity and Investigation Site Preference of XMRV, a New Human Retrovirus Associated with Prostate Cancer”

Eric Lepin, PhD
Assistant Researcher (pending), Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
“F-18 Diabody Labeling for Early PET Imaging of a Prostate Cancer Marker: Prostate
Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA)”

Arnold Chin, MD, PhD
Resident Physician, Department of Urology
“Toll-like Receptor-Mediated Immunosurveillance in Prostate Cancer”