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.