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NCT Fellowship Program HSO²
The NCT Heidelberg School of Oncology (HSO) offers a tailored fellowship program (HSO²) in the field of clinical cancer research that is open for Medical Scientists and Clinician Scientists.
The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg is a joint institution of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and the German Cancer Aid (DKH). As a leading center for translational cancer research, the NCT Heidelberg aims to accelerate the transfer of scientific ideas from bench to bedside and vice versa.
HSO² Fellowships
Current Topic Areas are:
- Digital Oncology/Big Data: In the midst of a technological revolution in health care-driven data, artificial intelligence, and deep learning, translational cancer research is fueled by computational approaches aimed to support clinical practice, e.g. by predicting drug response and improving cancer diagnostics.
- Clinical Trials: Current advances in the biological characterization of individual tumors lead to ever smaller groups of “similar patients” and increasingly personalized treatment strategies. Today’s challenges in creating innovative clinical trials include (a) the rapidly growing knowledge about the heterogeneity of individual tumors, (b) the increasing availability of disease mechanism-oriented therapies and the potential to combine them, (c) the need for new statistical approaches, and (d) increasing legal and regulatory requirements.
The HSO² Fellowship Program aims to bridge medical science and clinical practice by:
- Strengthening the research profiles of Clinician Scientists (physicians who are undergoing specialized medical training and are active in research) and Medical Scientist (non-physician scientists or physicians not active in patient-care who are working in clinical translational research). The fellowships include 2-year funding at NCT Heidelberg.
- Responding to current unmet needs in cancer research: A hallmark of the NCT HSO² Fellowship Program is the selection of 1-2 research topics for each call that reflect current unmet needs and/or emerging areas of particular relevance to translational cancer research.
- Learning from experts and peers: We offer a tailored mentoring and career service program. In addition, fellows be well integrated into existing networks within other, complementary programs such as the DKFZ Clinician Scientist Program or the Physician Scientist Program of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg.
DKFZ Clinician Scienstist Program
Please also check out the current call of our partner-program at the German Cancer Research Center: DKFZ Clinician Scientist Program
