Deadline to apply was March 12th, 2018. We are no longer accepting applications.
2018 ASBMT Clinical Research Training Course
Tuition, travel, housing and meal expenses will be paid by the society and corporate sponsors for up to 12 scholars to attend the course. Participants will be competitively selected. Preference will be given to fellows and faculty with no more than two years of BMT experience following training or a faculty appointment.
Details: Clinical Research Training Course
July 11 – 16, 2018
Hotel Park City
Park City, Utah
Objectives and Curriculum
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Read about last year's CRTC:
- To read "ASBMT Clinical Research Training Course Recap," click here.
- To read "CRTC Through the Eyes of An Attendee," click here.
- To read "CRTC Through the Eyes of an Instructor" click here.
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The ASBMT Board of Directors created the course in 2006 because of concerns that clinical fellowship programs don’t adequately cover the principles of research and how to take findings from the laboratory to the clinic. The course helps close the gap by addressing those deficiencies. The course includes formal presentations and extensive follow-up dialogue and small-group discussion, covering topics such as:
- Research subject eligibility and recruitment
- Clinical trial design
- Biostatistics
- Data management and quality control
- Study endpoints
- Late effects and quality of life
- Clinical pharmacology, including polypharmacy and drug interactions
- Regulatory compliance
- Relationships with pharmaceutical companies and third-party payers
- Opportunities for grants and clinical research training
- Grant writing
- Working with a mentor
- Translational trials
- Working with laboratory investigators
- Research ethics
- Subject safety
Each participant will be expected to have a research project that can be developed in discussions with faculty and with peers.
Faculty
The 2018 course directors are Christopher N. Bredeson, MD, MSc, The Ottawa Hospital/University of Ottawa and Margaret MacMillan, MD, MSc, University of Minnesota.
Faculty members will share their career stories and anecdotes. They will tell how they got where they are and the lessons learned along with way. Free time for rest, recreation and creative thinking will be built into the schedule.
Eligibility and Application
An applicant must be an ASBMT member or sponsored by an ASBMT member. For purposes of this program, "junior faculty” is defined as two years or less teaching in the BMT field.
The applicant must identify a local mentor with whom to work in implementation of the research project after the course.
Applicants must submit the following information and materials in order to be considered:
- Application survey (click here)
- A letter of recommendation from their mentor
- Curriculum vitae
- A 2-5 page letter of application which includes the following information:
- The applicant’s background, training, interest in blood and marrow transplantation and clinical research and career goals
- An outline of a research project to be further developed during the course. Details of the proposed research project should be a major portion of the application letter and should at a minimum include the following headings:
- Protocol Title
- Background
- Hypothesis and Aims
- Study Design, Innovation
- Potential problems/challenges, Summary.
Please send your application and all required materials to us at info@asbmt.org no later than March 12, 2018 at 11:59 PST.
Applicant selection will be based on curriculum vitae, proposed project, local mentor and all other things being equal, regional representation. Please note, that since scholars will be accepted based in a large part on the merit of the submitted project, it is NOT possible to change the overall project concept after submission (or after acceptance onto this Course).
The deadline to receive the CRTC applications is March 12, 2018.
Click here to complete the Application Survey.
Please contact us at info@asbmt.org with any questions.