{"doi":"10.1093/tbm/ibaa009","title":"Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer early career investigator training program: first year results","abstract":"Energy imbalance increases cancer burden by increasing cancer risk and mortality. Training early career investigators on conducting impactful energy balance and cancer research is needed. We developed a Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Training Program for early career investigators. This analysis examined program satisfaction, knowledge gained, publications, and awards among Year 1 participants (i.e., fellows). The program consists of an in-person course, followed by 1 year of mentorship. Faculty and fellows completed precourse and postcourse surveys. Following the mentorship period, we surveyed fellows for TREC-related research productivity, including publications and grant funding attributed to the program. Twenty fellows were accepted into the program: 3 basic, 7 clinical, and 10 population scientists. Sixteen fellows were junior faculty and four were postdoctoral fellows. The course included ~50 lectures, small group sessions, and faculty-fellow sessions. 96.7% of attendees rated the course in the highest categories of \"good/very good.\" Knowledge significantly improved in 37 of 39 research competencies (94.8%). In the 18 months following the course, fellows published 25 manuscripts, with 3 published in journals with impact factor ≥10. Nineteen grants were funded to TREC fellows (i.e., 7 National Institutes of Health awards, 2 American Cancer Society [ACS] awards, and 10 foundation/pilot awards), and 7 fellows received career promotions. The program's impact will be defined by the degree to which TREC fellows produce discoveries that could improve the health of populations at risk for and/or surviving cancer. Upon the conclusion of our fifth year in 2021, we will publicly disseminate the program material.","journal":"Translational Behavioral Medicine","year":2020,"id":107909,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":5,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9558,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":518603,"name":"Diana Lowry","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":27761,"name":"Marian L. Neuhouser","orcid":"0000-0002-3876-0000","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":273723,"name":"Jennifer A. Ligibel","orcid":"0000-0002-0633-3151","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":65157,"name":"KATHRYN H. SCHMITZ","orcid":"0000-0003-2400-2935","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":435894,"name":"Ruth E. Patterson","orcid":"0000-0002-5795-2331","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":84391,"name":"Graham A. Colditz","orcid":"0000-0002-7307-0291","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":517793,"name":"Fangyong Li","orcid":"0000-0003-3171-7592","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":517794,"name":"Linda Nebeling","orcid":"0000-0001-7531-9508","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":65152,"name":"MELINDA L. IRWIN","orcid":"0000-0001-7571-0304","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":34,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:12:39.385256Z","pmid":"32065834","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}