Summary

The intern/aide will learn about multiple facets of pancreatic cancer - epidemiology, molecular biology, translational research, and clinical trials - while learning, in more general terms, how institutions collaborate towards a common goal.The intern/aide will be managing a database and attending research meetings for a national, multi-institutional consortium of academic institutions dedicated to improving outcomes in pancreatic cancer (the Canopy Cancer Collective). This is part-time, benefits eligible, 20 hours/week position.

Job Duties

• Learns about multidisciplinary management of pancreatic cancer.
• Understands how academic institutions collaborate in translational and clinical research.
• Learns about the processes involved in conducting clinical research, from inception to IRB approval, execution, and data acquisition/interpretation.
• Attends the weekly BCM/DLDCCC multidisciplinary pancreatobiliary tumor board conferences to hear about new patients that will need to be entered into the Canopy registry.
• Enters new pancreatic cancer patients and their clinical information into the Canopy registry.
• Attends research meetings (internal and inter-institutional through the Canopy Cancer Collective).
• Helps devise research projects, writes protocols, interprets data as they emerge.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in high school, trade/vocational school or higher education institution.