Rayne Rouce
Baylor College of Medicine, TX·Medicine & Clinical Research
Cancer outcomes depend not only on laboratory discovery but on who gets access to it and who is doing the research. Three linked efforts address that gap in the Houston area: a formal partnership between an NCI-designated cancer center and a Historically Black College and University to expand cancer research and training, the administrative engine that runs it, and a cancer center office that connects research priorities to the surrounding community.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Education Research
- Topics
cancer research
community outreach and engagement
cancer health disparities
- Grants
- 3 known grants, through Jun 2030
What they work on
- Establish a standing research, education and outreach alliance between the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Texas Southern University, with coordinating offices at both institutions and shared research resources.
- Run a cancer research and career development program for Texas Southern University students combining mentored research, curriculum, hands-on training in emerging technologies and professional development.
- Support a pipeline of collaborative pilot cancer research projects, using Administrative Core discretionary funds, intended to generate preliminary data for independent grant applications.
- Provide financial, regulatory and scientific oversight of the partnership, including milestone tracking, investigator seminars, and internal and external advisory committee coordination.
- Monitor cancer burden and risk factors across the cancer center's Houston catchment area, a population with high poverty and the nation's highest uninsured rate.
- Build bidirectional community engagement so that residents help define research priorities and protocol design, and catalyze pragmatic trials plus dissemination and implementation research in priority cancers.
More about the research
The Collaborative Union for Cancer Research, and Educational Development (CURED) is a joint program of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Southern University, one of the nation's largest HBCUs. Its aims are to establish a standing alliance for cancer research, education and community outreach, with coordinating offices at both institutions, centralized research resources, and a research and career development program for Texas Southern students that includes mentored cancer research, a curriculum, hands-on training in emerging technologies, and professional development. A second aim supports a pipeline of collaborative pilot research projects intended to mature into independently funded studies. Both institutions have committed matching funds and student-training support, and all Texas Southern investigators are cancer center members.
Why it matters
Houston's cancer patients include large uninsured, Hispanic and veteran populations whose needs often go unmet by trials designed elsewhere. Monitoring local cancer burden, running community-guided screening and prevention, and launching pragmatic trials in the cancers that matter most locally could reduce that burden directly. Training Texas Southern University students and faculty in cancer research also builds a biomedical workforce that reflects the communities being served.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Kerry Burnstein
University of Miami, FL·Education Research
Provide stage-specific scientific and professional development programs that advance cancer research careers for undergraduates, graduate trainees, postdoctoral associates, faculty and non-faculty healthcare professionals.
Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway
University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE·Public Health & Epidemiology
Measure and monitor cancer incidence, mortality, risk factors, community needs and disparities across Nebraska's urban, rural and frontier counties over time.
Bettina Drake
Washington University in St Louis, MO·Public Health & Epidemiology
Monitor and evaluate cancer burden and differences in screening, mortality and morbidity across 82 Missouri and Illinois counties, comparing rural communities and Medically Underserved Areas.
The school
Baylor College of Medicine: 38 labs on PI Pages, $881M a year on research, 115 research doctorates a year.
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