Membership is open to trainees under the mentorship of University of Cincinnati Cancer Center members. Trainees include the following: 

• Graduate students enrolled in a cancer-relevant PhD, MD, or MD/PhD program at the University of Cincinnati. To qualify, trainees must be within 6 years from the start of graduate school.
• Postdoctoral scientists who conduct cancer-related research. To qualify, trainees may not be more than 6 years from the start of their first postdoctoral position or their terminal degree.
• Residents or clinical fellows in oncology-related clinical training. 

• Serves as Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI, or Project Leader of cancer-relevant, peer-reviewed extramural research grants and/or team science investigator (i.e., radiology, pathology, biostatistician) who is typically listed as co-investigator with effort.

• Functions as a leader in cancer clinical research, such as:
  1. PI of interventional cancer trial that is investigator-initiated and institutionally funded OR
  2. PI of an industry-sponsored trial or institutional trial for which the member was a primary scientific contributor to the trial’s design, implementation, and monitoring OR
  3. Site PI of a multi-site trial initiated by an investigator at another center OR
  4. Holds national leadership position in NCI National Clinical Trials Network studies (National PI or Study Chair, PI on U10 grant, NCTN (or nationally recognized consortium) Committee Chair
• Holds a significant leadership role within UCCC, including: Research Program Leaders, members of center advisory committees such as Scientific Advisory Council or Clinical Advisory Council, and Shared Resource Directors
• A new faculty recruitment or early career, cancer-focused investigator (usually in a cancer-related department/division/etc. or in a clearly defined cancer-relevant faculty research position in another academic unit) on a: 
  
  1. Pathway towards acquiring sustained cancer-relevant, peer-reviewed extramural research grants, OR
  2. Similar pathway for becoming a clinical research leader as defined above

Associate Research Members must be full-time faculty members and meet one of the following criteria:

• Expresses interest in cancer and has dedicated faculty effort assigned to research, but does not yet have externally funded cancer-related grants or clinical trials, publications, etc., OR
• Engages actively in the continuum of cancer care and survivorship, plays a leadership role (e.g., physician leader) that is critical to the success of the center, or contributes to cancer-relevant catchment issues (incidence, mortality, cancer disparities, etc.) but does not have a cancer scientific research program focus and contributes to cancer programmatic efforts in other important, supportive ways.