Membership Criteria

Membership Categories and Criteria

Criteria for Full Members:

A faculty member of the University of Nebraska who meets one or more of the following stipulations:

Serves as principal investigator (PI), multiple PI, or sub-project PI for a peer-reviewed, cancer-relevant funded research project award (e.g., R01, R21, U01, or P01 Project PI), individual career development award (e.g., K08), or training grant (e.g., T32); refer to Organizations with Peer Review Funding Systems for a list of peer-reviewed funding organizations approved by the National Cancer Institute (NCI);

Serves as principal investigator of an industry-sponsored trial for which the member was a primary scientific contributor to the trial’s design, implementation and monitoring;

New recruit or investigator in cancer research (within the last 4 years) or researcher active in another field and has gained interest in pursuing cancer-relevant research; and/or

Holds national leadership position in NCI National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) studies (National PI or Study Chair, PI on U10 grant, NCTN (or nationally recognized consortium) Committee Chair.

Criteria for Associate Members:

A faculty member of the University of Nebraska who is:

Interested in pursuing cancer research but has not yet secured external peer-reviewed funding;

Holds a leadership role in clinical cancer care, education and/or training; or

Holds a Cancer Center senior leadership position.

Member Responsibilities

All members are expected to contribute to the strength of the Cancer Center by supporting Center-wide activities.

Membership is limited to one research program.

Members must:

Participate in their assigned research program activities.

Actively engage in intra- and inter-programmatic activities and interactions.

Attend research programs and Cancer Center meetings and retreats.

Members must provide information as requested by the Cancer Center for all internal and external reporting, including the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG).

Requests may include:

Updates on cancer-relevant extramural funding and publications.

An updated NIH biosketch.
Information on leadership roles at the institutional and national levels.

Application Process

Applications must be submitted via a web-based application process found here: Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Membership Application. Applications are received by Administration and reviewed to ensure that basic membership criteria have been met.

Membership Review and Appointment Process:

Administration forwards the application to the appropriate Program Co-Leaders for review.
Program Leaders review the application based upon the above criteria, assess alignment of the applicant into their Program or suggest an alternative Program, and provide recommendation to the Director’s Council.
The Director’s Council and the Cancer Center Director make the final decision.
Membership review is completed, annually, by the Director’s Council.
The Cancer Center Director may terminate membership if criteria are no longer met.

Acknowledgement of the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG)

NIH Public Access Policy

The National Institutes of Healt requires all manuscripts accepted for publication that receive direct cost support from the CCSG to be submitted to PubMed Central and be assigned a PubMed Central ID (PMCID). This includes publications that used CCSG-supported Shared Resources that were supported by CCSG Developmental Funds.

Once obtained, the PMCID must be included at the end of the full citation in applications and reports.

This NIH citation policy can be found here: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/federal-funding

CCSG Acknowledgement

“Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number P30 CA036727. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”