The CMBB has begun a new strategy and is redirecting funds to innovative programs that offer long-term funding to those qualified underrepresented minority students and professionals who are at risk of being lost from the biomedical pipeline. We recognize that today's pipeline to a competitive career in cancer research is a multi-year, multi-institutional, educational and research continuum from high school to the first professional appointment. This new strategy for training the next generation of competitive underrepresented minority cancer researchers is diagramed below and is called the Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences

The CURE philosophy of research training and career development builds on the success of the Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities and strategically addresses each level of the biomedical research and educational pipeline to:

A) increase the pool of underrepresented minority candidates;

B) emphasize scientific areas of greatest need; and

C) expand and extend the period of training and career development.