Pilot funding available for Hutchinson Center, NMSU collaborative projects

Brief

The Hutchinson Center currently seeks collaborators to work with New Mexico State University (NMSU) faculty on projects that meet the needs of ethnically underserved populations. The collaboration with NMSU is the result of a five-year, $2.5 million planning grant awarded in 2002 by the National Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch — a program that addresses ethnic disparities in cancer incidence and mortality.

The planning grant supports initiatives to recruit and train ethnic minorities in cancer research as well as pilot research projects that involve investigators from the four research divisions at the Hutchinson Center and various scientific departments at NMSU. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, NMSU has access to border as well as underserved Latino populations. The institution has expertise in laboratory sciences and public health sciences. Eight projects have been funded under the current planning grant.

Any faculty member at the Hutchinson Center is eligible to apply for a pilot or full project. All projects must have a minimum of two co-principal investigators: one from NMSU and the other from the Hutchinson Center.

Details about potential collaborating scientists, examples of funded pilot projects and application forms can be found at www.fhcrc.org/science/bmrcp.

For more information, or help identifying potential partners, contact Dr. Beti Thompson, program director at the Hutchinson Center, (206) 667-4673 or bthompso@fhcrc.org.

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