Research Training and Career Development Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Sciences Transdisciplinary Sciences includes training and career development for those disciplines that are normally regarded as outside of traditional behavioral and biomedical cancer research and/or training and career development in those areas of cancer research that will require individuals to conduct their research within highly inter-disciplinary, collaborative team settings. For these purposes, the NCI currently offers the following opportunities: The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25): These are awards for independent scientists in highly technical fields of research to identify an appropriate mentor with extensive experience in cancer research and to receive the necessary training and career development required to become involved in multidisciplinary cancer research. The NCI participates in the NIH program, which uses the K25 grant mechanism and is dedicated to this goal. The announcement for this NIH program can be accessed at the following website address: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-127.html Cancer Education and Career Development Program (R25T): The Cancer Education and Career Development Program or R25T grant is a program developed uniquely by the National Cancer Institute to encourage institutions to develop training programs that are multi-departmental and/or multi-institutional and focused on preparing predoctoral and postdoctoral candidates to conduct cancer research in team settings that are highly-interdisciplinary and collaborative. These programs are intended to serve a wide range of research areas (e.g., imaging, pathology, pharmacogentics biophysics, bioinformatics etc.) that will require sustained leadership, dedicated faculty time, specialized curriculum development and implementation, interdisciplinary research environments and more than one mentor per program participant. For information about this program and how to apply, click on R25T.