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Member Eligibility

Applicants can apply for one of the following types of Membership: Full, Clinical, or Research.

Full Membership

Applicants must have an independent Yale faculty appointment at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor. Faculty members in other ranks (e.g. Research Scientist or Instructor) will be considered on a case-by- case basis. And at least one of the following:
  • Contributed to the peer-reviewed cancer literature within the past 3 years
  • Obtained extramural cancer-relevant peer-reviewed grant support as a PI, or as a Co-PI, within the past 3 years
  • Served as PI or co-PI on one or more YCC intervention (therapeutic or non-therapeutic) cancer clinical trials within the preceding 24-month period. For this purpose, an investigator or co-investigator should contribute to protocol development, implementation, patient accrual and participate at a level justifying publication co-authorship
  • Provided specialized medical, scientific, or administrative expertise to the overall research mission of the YCC.

Clinical Membership

Applicants must be affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and provide substantive clinical, scientific, or administrative expertise to the overall research mission of the YCC plus at least one of the following:
  • Contribute to the peer-reviewed cancer literature
  • Participate in an extramural cancer-relevant peer-reviewed grant
  • Contribute to YCC intervention (therapeutic or non-therapeutic) cancer clinical trials

Research Membership

Applicants must be affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and provide substantive basic, population, scientific or administrative expertise to the overall research mission of the YCC plus at least one of the following:
  • Contribute to the peer-reviewed cancer literature
  • Participate on an extramural cancer-relevant peer-reviewed grant
  • Contribute to YCC intervention (therapeutic or non-therapeutic) cancer clinical trials

Junior Faculty

If they wish, junior faculty are welcome to apply for full membership even if they do not meet all the criteria for that category. The leaders of the applicant’s desired research program will make the final determination of membership category. The assigned category can be changed in the future by the program leaders based on success in meeting the membership criteria.