Membership Criteria

Criteria for Full Membership

• Be a faculty member within the University of Nebraska system.
• Have expertise in cancer research.
• Have a record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications.
• Hold peer-reviewed grant support.
• Be a new recruit or investigator in cancer research (four-year initial term) or researcher active in another field who has gained interest in pursuing cancer-relevant research.
• Show active and consistent participation in cancer center activities. The member will need to keep track of this participation.

They also must meet one or more of these stipulations:

• Serve as principal investigator on one or more peer-reviewed grants.
• Have cancer-related support within the past three years and intend to continue in cancer research.
• Have not had cancer-related peer-reviewed funding as PI within past three years, but contribute to collaborative research on grants and publications.
• Participate in clinical cancer research by serving in one of these roles:
  • Principal investigator of an industry-sponsored trial for which the member was a primary scientific contributor to the trial’s design, implementation and monitoring. 
  • Site principal investigator of a multi-site interventional investigator-initiated trial initiated at another center that accrues at least five subjects a year at our cancer center. 
  • National leadership position in NCI National Clinical Trials Network studies. These positions are national principal investigator or study chair; principal investigator on U10 grant; committee chair for National Clinical Trials Network or a nationally recognized consortium.
  • Member of cancer center leadership team.

Criteria for Associate Membership

• Be a faculty or staff member within the University of Nebraska.
• Demonstrate an interest in cancer research and/or educational programs.
• Show active and consistent participation in cancer center activities.