Become a Member of the AHWFBCCC

The Mission of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center (AHWFBCCC) is to eliminate cancer in the southeast region of the United States, nationally, and internationally through cutting-edge research and treatment, community education and outreach, and transdisciplinary training of next-generation biomedical scientists and healthcare providers.

Becoming a member facilitates collaboration with other cancer-focused researchers throughout the health system and beyond and provides access to the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) shared resources with member pricing where applicable.

Member Benefits

Benefits for Scientific and Affiliate Members:

Office of Community Outreach and Engagement:

Partnerships with community members
Improved access to clinical trials
Collaboration to improve community health and well-being

Shared Resources:

Member pricing
Priority Access

Research Programs:

Opportunities for colleague collaboration on grants, publications, and clinical trials
Access to our Mentoring Matching Program
Participation in seminars, workshops and retreats
Exclusive pilot and development funding opportunities for collaborative research

Benefits for Trainee Members:

Office of Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC):
- Free access to information and activities
- Eligibility for CRTEC internships
- Eligibility for trainee pilot funds
- Eligibility for travel awards for scientific meetings
- Eligibility for trainee pilot funds
- Invitation to participate in our Trainee Research Symposium.
- Participation in center events such as seminars & grand rounds
- Networking opportunities

A group of students and faculty gather in a hallway for a group photo at the 2025 Research Symposium.

A group of students and faculty gather in the back of a banquet hall for a group photo at the Immuno-Oncology Retreat.

Research Programs

Did You Know?

The progress of AHWFBCCC is measured by the aggregate peer-reviewed funding and publications of our individual members.

The AHWFBCCC research programs are structured to optimize multidisciplinary and translational research which allows our researchers to take the most promising discoveries from the laboratory into the clinic.

Transformational Teams

Serving as the conduit to facilitate inter-programmatic research activities, transformational teams create an enabling environment for translational, evidence-based, policy-relevant or novel research ideas to thrive. They support a level of research that could potentially lead to multi-investigator grants, high-impact extramural grants, Program Project Grants (PPGs) or Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant applications.

AHWFBCCC supports the following Transformational Teams:

Brain Tumor Center of Excellence
Immuno-Oncology
Symptom Science
Tobacco Control Center of Excellence

Levels of Membership

Membership Criteria	Scientific Member (Reported to NCI)	Affiliate Member	Trainee Member
Current cancer-relevant, peer-reviewed funding (as defined by NCI)	✔
Principal Investigator on an AH-initiated trial and/or accruing a minimum of 10 individuals to interventional trials annually (or have a significant noninterventional accrual track record) and/or holding a national leadership role within the NCI National Clinical Trials Network (e.g., national Pl chair of study, chair of an NCTN group disease site committee) or any other national trial	✔
Provides critical leadership and/or expertise essential to one or all of the CCC scientific research programs (e.g., Scientific Program Co-Leader, Shared Resource Director, etc.)	✔
Early-stage investigator and/or new CCC recruit holding a career development award (e.g., NCI K award) or has a clear trajectory in obtaining peer-reviewed, cancer-relevant funding within three years	✔
Researchers, clinical investigators, and/or educators who may not yet meet the criteria for scientific membership and are actively engaged in cancer research with a record of cancer-related publications, clinical trial enrollments or site leadership, and non peer-reviewed funding, and may significantly contribute to other Cancer Center missions, including cancer-relevant education, dissemination, and care		✔
Students enrolled in any masters or PhD program, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows or residents, medical students and undergraduate students who are actively involved in cancer research with a member of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center			✔

Application Information

Apply for Membership:

Documents needed to complete the membership application:

NIH Biosketch (My NCBI format)
CV (updated)
One-page letter of interest

Additional items needed to complete the membership application:

Member Expectations:

Notify our administrative team when grant funding has been awarded.
Maintain NIH publication compliance in accordance with NIH Public Access Policy.
Respond to all member surveys as communicated by the AHWFBCCC.
Prioritize attendance to program activities and retreats to promote collaboration.
Consult with Shared Resources leaders regarding equipment needs required for a grant proposal prior to submission.
Contact our administrative team for a personal link to update your member profile in our AHWFBCCC database (WIMMS).
Cite the P30!
Renew CITI Certification before the deadline.

Still have questions? Contact our admin team for more information.

Cite the P30

Please remember to cite the P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) when applicable, especially for AHWFBCCC Shared Resources!

If your publication has already been submitted without citing the P30 and has a PMCID number, you can link the pub to the P30 grant in your MyNCBI after the fact. If it does not have a PMCID, it can be submitted for one and then you can link the P30.

Here are the conditions in which you need to cite the P30 in a pub:

- Cite the P30 using the statement below if you have ANY manuscripts that involve(d) the following either CCSG pilot funding, or clinical research support for a pilot or Phase I Investigator-Initiated trial (e.g., regulatory and data management personnel):
- “Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA012197. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

Cite specific AHWFBCCC Shared Resource(s) using the following statement:

"The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center <INSERT SHARED RESOURCE NAME(S)> Shared Resource, supported by the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Center Support Grant award number P30CA012197. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

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