With so many new and promising strategies and recent developments, the opportunities to produce and enable high-impact cancer research are unprecedented. Recent advances continue to expand and reshape our views of the essential features of cancer. We are learning important new aspects of how cancers develop, how to find and diagnose cancers earlier, how to design and unleash powerful new anti-cancer therapies, and how to evaluate cancer risk and even prevent tumors from arising. These advances are delivering useful, productive changes that lead to better cancer outcomes.
High-Impact Cancer Research is the acclaimed Harvard Medical School postgraduate certificate program for cancer research. It teaches the principles and skills shaping today’s most important cancer research activities. High-Impact Cancer Research faculty are distinguished leading experts who have achieved breakthroughs in fields from discovery biology to therapeutics and prevention. In this special program, world leaders in cancer research share their insights and teach this changing science. Participants learn the new fundamentals of a wide spectrum of cancer science and the skills necessary to envision, design and lead cutting-edge cancer research projects that can contribute to these changes.
This program is designed to help participants make high-impact contributions that lead to better cancer outcomes. Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:
Understand the molecular and cellular basis of cancer development, detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention
Learn about key advances within the context of clinical presentation of various human tumors and ways it is currently being used to develop the growing set of therapeutic and preventive approaches to fight cancer
Hear about new cancer treatments from the individuals who developed the therapies and are testing them in ongoing clinical trials
Hone skills necessary to identify and answer key questions needed to make future contributions and to effectively communicate your ideas and conclusions
Acquire critical skills to interpret and assess emerging cancer research
Envision and design cancer research projects
Develop writing skills for personal career advancement (e.g., grant applications or funding requests; the science section of a business plan designed to highlight a particular commercial opportunity; papers suitable for submission and publication)
Build an international network of colleagues and work effectively with international peers
Course Directors
The High-Impact Cancer Research program is no longer accepting applications.
