Education For High School Students For Graduate Students Oncology Summer Internship (OSI) For Faculty Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp Mentorship, Education & Training Program Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp Home Education For Faculty Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp Applications for 2025 Cycle Coming Soon Overview The Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp is a 16-week program that guides clinical faculty and fellows in designing and writing investigator-initiated cancer clinical trial protocols. At the program’s outset, each participant presents at least two cancer-related investigator-initiated clinical trial ideas for development. Participants meet every other Wednesday for eight 2-hour sessions led by CFCCC investigators. Each session includes a 45-minute didactic lecture followed by 1-hour of “at elbow” mentorship focused on the participant’s protocol development. Following each session, participants apply learned concepts to systematically write protocol components with the goal of submitting a written protocol for at least one of their cancer clinical trial ideas by the program’s conclusion. Timeline & Eligibility Timeline: December 2, 2025: Call for applications released January 14, 2025: Application deadline January 31, 2025: Participants selected and notified February 26, 2025 – June 4, 2025: Eight in-person sessions, every other Wednesday 6:00PM – 8:00PM June 23, 2025: Master protocol submission deadline Eligibility: Must be a clinical fellow/faculty member who desires a career with a substantial cancer clinical research component. Must be able to attend all in-person session dates. Must commit to writing and submitting a completed master protocol by the program's conclusion. To apply, visit the below link and submit your application by January 14, 2025. Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Syllabus Participants are required to attend all sessions in-person from 6:00PM - 8:00PM. Topics and speakers are subject to change. Session Date Topic Speakers 1 Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Overview of Course; Ethical & Diversity Considerations; Generating a Hypothesis (Part 1) Edward Nelson, MD; Jennifer Valerin, MD, PhD; Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH 2 Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Framing a Hypothesis (Part 2) & Determination of Study Endpoints Jason Zell, DO; Joel Milam, PhD 3 Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Pre-trial Design Considerations Warren Chow, MD; Wen-Pin Chen, MS 4 Wednesday, April 9, 2025 General Trial Design Considerations & Phase I Designs Arash Rezazadeh, MD; Michael Hoyt, PhD 5 Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Phase II Study Designs, Evaluations & Study Calendars Susan O'Brien, MD; Elizabeth Brem, MD 6 Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Safety, Data Storage & Reporting Alexandre Chan, PharmD, MPH; Farshid Dayyani, MD 7 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Data Analysis, Publication & Next Steps Misako Nagasaka, MD, PhD; Christine Hui, MPH 8 Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Panel Q&A All above faculty Questions For questions about the Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp, contact Kimberly Castellanos at kecastel@hs.uci.edu.