Liaison program
BSC representatives are appointed as liaisons and integrated into key
steering committees of other Disease, Discipline, Domain, and
Administrative Committees within COG (Table 1). This structure
facilitates collaboration across committees and provides opportunities
for BSC involvement in the earliest stages of new concept development.
The BSC emphasizes mentoring future generations of investigators via
participation in the Young Investigators (YI) Committee mentorship
program. The BSC appoints two representatives (YI paired with an
experienced researcher) to every new study committee with behavioral
science outcomes (e.g., neurocognitive, QOL, or patient-reported
outcomes). BSC members included on study committees help refine research
questions, provide rationale for inclusion of cognitive/QOL endpoints,
and design assessment approaches. Table 2 summarizes BSC-relevant aims
in active trials.