Professional development session for early career scientists at SITC 2012

Christian M Capitini; William L Redmond; Kimberly A Shafer-Weaver

doi:10.1186/2051-1426-1-6

Professional development session for early career scientists at SITC 2012

J Immunother Cancer. 2013 Jun 27:1:6. doi: 10.1186/2051-1426-1-6. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Christian M Capitini¹, William L Redmond², Kimberly A Shafer-Weaver³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics and UW Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
² Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR 97213, USA.
³ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Abstract

The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 2012 Professional Development Session was held as part of the SITC 27th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, on October 24, 2012. The session was designed as a new opportunity for early career investigators to learn about relevant career development topics in a didactic setting.

Keywords: Academia, Industry and government positions; Business of research; K awards; Professional development; Tenure process.