Course Cancer Research from bench to bedside

The course B328/01 Cancer Research from bench to bedside is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2024.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Requirements for participation: Interest in cancer research.

Aim:

• Introduction to cancer with a focus on the disease from the patient’s perspective.
• Broadly introduce cancer research to enable students to gain perspectives on their research projects.
• Introduce methods applicable to a wide variety of cancer projects.
• Discuss how to progress a project to clinical trials.
• Foster a strong network of PhD students to facilitate collaboration across different disciplines.
• Present individual research projects with the implication of new proposals.

Learning outcomes: 

• Broad understanding of cancer as a disease with a significant impact on public health.
• Enable students to place their projects in the translation from bench to bedside.
• Knowledge of common methods used in cancer research and how to apply new methods to progress their current research.
• Insight into the progression from bench to bedside with a focus on an introduction to clinical trials.
• How to present a research project and apply new methods and ideas to develop the project towards clinical application.

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 35 hours.

Content: The course will provide didactic and plenum discussions on cancer diseases and research. The theoretical lectures will include insight into the disease, methodology for research, progression to clinical trials, and common errors that hamper project development. The course will have a strong focus on the progression of a project from basic research to clinical application. Furthermore, students are asked to present their projects, including a critical perspective and applied new possibilities for the projects to reach a higher impact of their work.

Instructors: Martin K. Thomsen et al.,

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus.

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

• 25 November 2024 08:30 - 16:30
• 26 November 2024 08:30 - 16:30
• 27 November 2024 08:30 - 16:30