Member categories
Research Member: This category describes UK faculty
actively conducting basic, translational, clinical or population-based cancer
research. Research members will meet at least one of the following criteria:
- Principal
investigators on cancer-related, peer-reviewed grants from external agencies.
- Senior
investigators with a major scientific leadership role in the Markey Cancer Center.
- Previously
funded and productive senior investigators who no longer have external funding,
but remain productive and are seeking support. The period of time without
external, peer-reviewed funding should not exceed two years.
Research
members are expected to have recent cancer-related publications in
peer-reviewed journals, actively participate in one of the Markey Cancer Center
research programs, and use MCC shared resource facilities.
Associate Research
Member: This category describes UK faculty who meet at least one of
the following criteria:
- Junior
investigators (within the first five years of their first academic appointment)
who are performing cancer-related research and are in the process of seeking
external research funding but are not yet independently funded.
- Co-investigators
with effort on peer-reviewed cancer-related grants from external
agencies who provide unique expertise to the scientific activities of the
grant.
- Principal investigators on externally funded career development awards, contracts from external agencies, non-peer-reviewed grants, or MCC internal seed grants.
- Clinical researchers without funding on extramural grants but who serve as principal investigator of national or local investigator-initiated clinical trials or play a significant role in the accrual of MCC patients to clinical cancer trials (e.g., institutional principal investigator for national cooperative group or industry-sponsored trials) or play a national leadership role in an NCI-sponsored cooperative group.
Associate
research members are expected to be active participants in Markey Cancer Center research
programs and activities and utilize MCC shared resource
facilities.
Definition of Peer-Reviewed Research
To be considered a peer-reviewed project
or study, the responsible reviewing/funding agency or organization should meet
the general National Institutes of Health (NIH) standards of peer-review and
funding. These include meeting three criteria:
- A peer-review
system which uses primarily external reviewers and is free of
conflict-of-interest.
- A ranking or
rating system in the review process based on the scientific merit of the
proposed research.
- A funding
system based primarily on the peer-review ranking or rating of the
research application.
Examples of Peer-Reviewing Agencies
include:
- NIH
- Food and Drug
Administration
- Howard Hughes
Foundation
- Cancer
Research Foundation of America
- American
Foundation for AIDS Research
- American
Cancer Society
- Army, DOD,
DOE, DOA and CDC cancer relevant grants equal to NIH R01 in funding
- National
Science Foundation
- Environmental
Protection Agency
- American
Institute for Cancer Research
- Agency for
Health Care Policy Research
- Central
Office of the Veterans Administration
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation