Shaw University-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Undergraduate Program in Prostate Cancer Research and Training (SUUPPRT)

摘要

The Shaw-UNC Undergraduate Program in Prostate Cancer Research and Training (SUUPPRT) is a collaborative project between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and Shaw University, the oldest Historically Black College/University in the South. SUUPPRT provides research and academic training to prepare young men and women of color to become tomorrow's prostate cancer researchers and public health professionals. The second year of the SUUPPRT Program has been highly successful. In addition to our broad training program that introduces students to the biological, behavioral, environmental and nutritional factors that may contribute to the high incidence and mortality of prostate cancer among African Americans, we have introduced opportunities for students to shadow physicians treating prostate cancer patients and have increased student participation in community outreach programs. Three highly qualified students participated in Year 2, and two of these students are applying to graduate schools in the health sciences. Another student will return for a second year in the SUUPPRT Program in 2009.