Areas of Collaboration
MD Anderson faculty and the leaders and faculty of various international partner organizations desire particular outcomes from the relationships. The respective desires are diverse; however, there are some collaborative themes that are more common.
General examples of activities created, managed or supported to various degrees by Global Academic Programs are:
- Education and training for students, postdoctoral research and clinical residents and fellows, junior faculty, administrators, nurses and other allied health professions is a very common desire of international partners. Our faculty are particularly interested in students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty who can contribute to our faculty’s research
- Research interests are so diverse as to limit definitions of themes, but current areas are: Tissue banks and their use in research; active fields of international research interest, such as immunology, genomics and proteomics; cellular signaling, angiogenesis and stem cells; and traditional Chinese and ayurvedic medicines, and their possible uses in oncology, such as effects of herbal, natural products and acupuncture and bio-behavioral effects of mind/body-based interventions (qigong, yoga)
- Common themes in the area of prevention are: Prevention and control in the use of tobacco and related products, and epidemiology and population-based research studies
- Clinical research and clinical trial interests are also very diverse and limit definition of themes, but current areas are: Ethnicity-related differences in ontogenesis and their relevance to cancer and therapeutics; breast, genitourinary, hepatobiliary, head and neck and colon cancers and sarcomas and leukemias; neuro-oncology and neurosurgery; endocrinology; molecular diagnostics and imaging; and radiation therapy, including heavy ion therapy
- Direct patient care-related topics, such as second opinions and multidisciplinary videoconference case presentations
- Clinical trial related topics, such as Institutional Review Board issues, and standard operating procedures for the conduct of clinical trials between institutions and across countries
