The Texas Children's Cancer Center combines the strengths of Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), both of which are located in Houston. Texas Children's Hospital is the largest freestanding pediatric facility in the United States; an internationally recognized, licensed 639-bed, full-care pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center; the pediatric teaching hospital of BCM; and home to the College's full-time pediatric faculty. BCM is ranked in the top 10% in federal research funding among medical schools in the U.S. Physician-scientists on the BCM faculty who provide patient care at Texas Children's Cancer Center, are at the forefront of medical research. This means our patients have the distinct advantage of receiving the most advanced, state-of-the-art medical treatments from highly skilled pediatric cancer treatment experts.

Pediatric Oncology Clinical Research
The Faculty Fellowship in Pediatric Oncology Clinical Research provides a formal, comprehensive, multidisciplinary clinical research educational program to teach pediatric oncologists and Ph.D. prepared oncology nurses the design, implementation and analysis of all phases of clinical research trials. This is a structured program in which trainees receive in-depth education through a core clinical research curriculum and participation in clinical research training in one of five specialized training tracks: clinical pharmacology, neuro-oncology, cell and gene therapy, leukemia or solid tumor.

These specialized areas have been purposely chosen for two reasons. First, within Texas Children's Cancer Center, they represent funded programs of significant research strength, each with strong collaborative interactions between basic and clinical scientists. Second, within the field of pediatric oncology, they represent five critical areas in which clinical research success must occur for continued progress against childhood cancer to be realized.

Purpose & Objectives
two to three year formal, comprehensive, multidisciplinary clinical research educational program for M.D.s and Ph.D.-prepared oncology nurses focusing on the design, implementation and analysis of all phases of clinical research trials. Trainees will receive in-depth education through a core clinical research curriculum (through the Clinical Scientist Training Program) and participation in clinical research training in one of five specialized training tracks: