Full Members will meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Service as a Principal Investigator on peer-reviewed, cancer-related research grants.
- Newly recruited laboratory investigators who are expected to receive extramural funding in the near future.
- Clinical investigators who may not have an extramurally funded but who play leadership roles in extramural programs (e.g. ECOG, RTOG) or in intramural programs (e.g. Head of Disease or Discipline Group).
- The Director, Associate Director and collaborating investigators who are members of the Biostatistics Shared Resource. These investigators may be either programmatically aligned or unaligned.
Associate Members are expected to participate actively in cancer center activities. Associate Members may be linked to a basic science program and/or Disease Groups and will fulfill the following criteria:
- Service as an investigator who participates in clinical cancer research through protocol development and/or execution;
- Managers of Shared Resources
- Key ancillary personnel who foster effective clinical and translational research efforts. Such members would include lead research pharmacists, research nurses and clinical research associates and research scientists in Biostatistics.
- Service as an administrator in NYUCI Programs or Shared Resources.
Membership falls into two general categories and is periodically reviewed by Program Leaders and the Executive Committee. The first category of membership includes those aligned with a Research Program of the NYUCI. This is the most essential category and these Programs form the foundation of the Institute itself. The second category is that of “non-programmatically aligned” members. This is a designation to enable newly approved members to determine, after learning about the NYUCI, which Program best matches their research interests. This category also allows us to maintain distinguished faculty as members. Alignment with and continuing involvement in a Program is a requisite for continuation of membership.
Faculty interested in becoming a member can either nominate themselves or are nominated by one of the NYUCI leaders. The membership application and supporting documents are reviewed by the respective Program Leader, who then indicates his/her recommendation for approval or disapproval for membership. Applications are then forwarded to the NYUCI’s Executive Committee which functions as a Membership Committee for review and approval. A final decision is made by the NYUCI’s Director.
Individuals accepted for membership who do not fit within a Program, and thus become unaligned members, will be required to submit an annual report to the NYUCI Director to increase their likelihood of becoming aligned with a Program.
