Full Membership

• Access to the biostatistics, data management, and clinical research office shared facilities at a reduced rate
• Access to ITRAC services
• Potential for enhanced interaction and collaboration via membership in one of the IUSCCC’s highly translational, inter-campus programs
• Access to the IUSCCC searchable database, an electronic tool to allow researchers to enter and edit information and conduct hierarchical searches for potential collaborators
• Access to IUSCCC communications, including distribution lists for seminar announcements, IUSCCC Grand Rounds, RFAs, grant announcements, e-newsletter, and special events
• Access to ongoing clinical trials available at IUSCCC*
• Preferential scheduling and reduced rates for all cancer center shared facilities
• Grant assistance for T32s and program grants (PPGs and SPOREs)
• Eligibility for IUSCCC pilot project funding via ITRAC
• Eligibility for leadership positions within IUSCCC

Programmatically aligned members also become a part of one of the four IUSCCC research programs:

• Cancer Prevention and Control
• Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics
• Hematopoiesis and Hematologic Malignancies
• Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis

• Full-time faculty member
• Publish on cancer-related research; intra-programmatic and inter-programmatic collaborative publications of highest priority
• Principal Investigator on an actively-funded NCI or other peer-reviewed, cancer-related research grant (as defined by NCI guidelines) OR one of the following:
• Principal Investigator of IUSCCC Investigator Initiated Trial
• Service as protocol chairperson for a national peer-reviewed (CTEP) clinical trial
• Service as a senior leader of a national peer-reviewed funded cooperative group
• Service as a lead investigator initiated cancer-related clinical trial

Full members will have two years after losing peer-reviewed grant funding to renew their funding or their status will change to inactive. Full members without funding but have pending peer-reviewed grants may be continued as a full member on a case-by-case basis.

In addition, full members must have published within the last three years or the membership status will change to inactive.

• Submission as PI or co-PI on a cancer-relevant grant
• Presentation of data at internal or external scientific meetings
• Publication as contributing author on peer-reviewed articles/book chapters
• Collaborative efforts via grants, publications, or active membership in an IUSCCC working group
• Regularly attend cancer seminars and IUSCCC Grand Rounds
• Serve on various cancer center committees, participate in summer research programs, mentorship, and other cancer center activities when called upon; failure to participate will result in the member being ineligible for pilot funding through the cancer center for up to two years
• Recognize the support of the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center on publications, when appropriate
• Attend regular program meetings
• Present at cancer center-sponsored seminars and Grand Rounds
• Support the educational and philanthropic mission of the cancer center through private and public offerings