A 2-year, $200,000 grant for an innovative approach to the care of cancer patients in their most desperate times titled ” Development of a Humanistic, Patient-Centered, Early Phase Cancer Research Center at an Academic Community Hospital: Center for Innovative Cancer Research Therapies at the Miriam Hospital” to, using the impending completion of the Center for Innovative Cancer Research facilities, develop a new model for a research nurse that will combine clinical cancer research skills with humanistic, patient-centered care.