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1.Complete the attached Application Form.
2. Submit a one-page description of the clinical trial protocol
you intend to write during the Workshop. This description should contain
all of the following elements:
| a. |
Title: Example: "Will
an antisense to HER-2/neu increase the antitumor activity of
cisplatin?" |
| b. |
Background: No more
than 2 sentences explaining why the trial should be undertaken. |
| c. |
Proposed Design: No
more than one paragraph describing the elements of the trial. A schematic
diagram may be used instead of a narrative. |
| d. |
Proposed Endpoints:
No more than two sentences explaining how the results of the trial
will be evaluated. |
These responses will be used to assign participants to appropriate faculty
advisors.
3. Submit a letter explaining why you wish to participate in this Workshop.
Be sure that your letter provides the following information:
| a. |
A description of your previous
research background. |
| b. |
The nature of the program
in which you are scheduled to participate for the next two years. |
| c. |
A description
of the kind of program in which you would like to be working in
five years. |
| d. |
An explanation of how participation
in the Workshop will help you to design and conduct the trial to
be outlined in your protocol (see Item 2., above). |
| e. |
A commitment to participate
in the long-term evaluation of this Workshop by maintaining contact
with the organizers and responding to questionnaires when requested. |
4. Submit a letter from your Program Supervisor or Department Head in
support of your application for this Workshop. This letter should include
the following:
| a. |
A description of the length
of time and the capacity in which the writer has known the applicant.
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| b. |
An assessment of the quality
of the applicant's performance in his or her current program. |
| c. |
A commitment to make every
reasonable effort to enable the candidate to conduct a clinical trial
based on the protocol produced at the Workshop. |
| d. |
A commitment to participate
in the long-term evaluation of this Workshop by reporting the results
of the trial conducted by the candidate to the organizers and by responding
to questionnaires that may be submitted by the organizers. |
5. Applications will not be accepted unless they contain all four
of the elements described above, i.e., the application form,
the description of the proposed protocol, the letter from the applicant,
and the letter from a Department Supervisor or Department Head of the
applicant. The deadline for receipt of applications in the AACR office
is April 10, 2000.
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