At Markey, there are a variety of resources available for advancing education and expertise. Learn more by exploring the opportunities offered by the Oncology Career Enhancement Program below. For more information, please contact the Associate Director of Cancer Education and Mentoring, Dr. Kathleen O’Connor or the Cancer Education Coordinator, Dr. Erin Oakley.
Check the MCC Trainee Calendar online to stay up-to-date with all of the latest events.
Markey Cancer Trainee Network
If you would like to stay in the loop about training related networking opportunities and resources, please contact the Education Coordinator Erin Oakley and ask to join the Cancer Trainee Network.
Individual Fellowship Resources
Individual Fellowship resources are available to help you as you work toward submission.
- Research Communications Office
The Markey Cancer Center’s Research Communications Office (RCO) was created to help cancer researchers secure grants and publish their findings. The RCO staff offers a variety of services including grant and presentation editing, graphic design, web development, and event planning.
Learn more at the RCO webpage.
- Proposal Development Office
The Proposal Development Office (PDO) is a support unit at the University of Kentucky focused on the pre-award stage of funding. They provide a wide-range of support to faculty, staff and students across all stages of their grant and fellowship applications.
Learn more at the PDO webpage.
For assistance identifying funding sources, obtaining fellowship examples, or learning about our Fellowship Boot Camp, please contact Cancer Education Coordinator Erin Oakley.
Trainee Travel Resources
MCC Travel Award
Markey offers $500 competitive cancer-specific travel awards for trainees to attend scientific meetings to present their work, attend workshops, or travel to other laboratories to learn about their best lab skills and practices.
Travel Award application and details can be found below.
Office of Biomedical Education Travel Award
Funds are available to doctoral graduate students for assistance with expenses relating to travel to present research at professional meetings only.
- Please contact Jennifer Kennedy for travel award application and notes.
Office of Undergraduate Research Travel Awards
Research Travel Grants (up to $600) are awarded to undergraduate students to help subsidize travel costs incurred while presenting at local and national conferences.
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Junior Faculty Resources
CCTS KL2 Career Development Program
This program offers research training and funding opportunities for junior faculty to foster a career in clinical/translational research.
The key to this program is the interaction between the awardees and their mentorship team. The goal is to help awardees obtain an individual career development award (i.e. K) or an independent investigator (i.e. R01) award.
Learn more about this program.
MCC Pilot Awards
Several pilot funding opportunities are offered directly through the cancer center.
Learn more about these funding opportunities.
CCTS Pilot Awards
The CCTS program at UK provides multiple types of pilot funding opportunities to stimulate collaborative, translational research. These funding mechanisms prioritize multidisciplinary research and projects that focus on health disparities, particularly in Appalachia.
Learn more about these funding opportunities.
Center of Research in Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases (COCVD) Pilot Awards
The COCVD at UK offers pilot project grants through the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). These grants assist investigators in generating research data on the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer or neurodegenerative diseases to be competitive for extramural funding. Junior faculty members are especially encouraged to apply.
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MCC Journal Clubs
In order to support transdisciplinary collaborations among MCC faculty and trainees, several journal clubs meet monthly. Trainees are encouraged to attend to increase their knowledge and promote communication and dialogue among MCC programs.
Cancer Signaling
- Contact Jessica Blackburn
- Meets first Thursday of each month at noon in NUR 213.
DNA Repair/Genomic Instability
- Contact Stuart Jarrett
- Meets fourth Thursday of each month at noon in HSRB 410.
Stem Cell Meeting
- Contact Tianyan Gao
- Meets second Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m. in Combs 208.
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General Education Resources
In addition to visiting our programs and fellowship opportunities, we recommend taking advantage of the following online resources to continue education opportunities
Interested in cancer research education at Markey?
Contact Cancer Education Coordinator Erin Oakley to be matched with researchers, mentors and/or clinicians.
Shared Resource Facility
In publications, always be sure to acknowledge a shared resource facility (SRF) if their services were used in any way for your research. Learn more about each SRF by visiting the webpages below.
- Behavioral and Community-Based Research
- Biospecimen Procurement and Translational Pathology
- Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
- Cancer Research Informatics
- Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting
- Oncogenomics
- Redox Metabolism
Weekly research email
The UK College of Medicine’s weekly research email offers the latest highlights and opportunities available within the College of Medicine. Contact Cancer Education Coordinator Erin Oakley to subscribe to the weekly email.
Individual Development Plan
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine has created an Individual Development Plan (IDP) for use with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The IDP is a tool that helps students and mentors define academic and scientific progress, identify professional development needs, and establish career objectives.
- Download the IDP form.
- Visit the ScienceCareers webpage to develop your myIDP plan and explore career possibilities.
UK Society of Post-Doctoral Scholars
The Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SOPS) is an organization of postdocs at the University of Kentucky. SOPS assists current, past or incoming postdocs with career advice, professional development, and networking opportunities. SOPS is a UK student organization and has wide variety of members from colleges across campus and are always looking for postdocs who want to participate in SOPS leadership roles.
Visit their website to learn more about their mission and the resources they provide.
National Postdoctoral Association
The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) is a non-profit organization providing a unique, national voice for postdoctoral scholars.
Visit their website to learn more about their mission and the resources they provide.