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Non-Federal Funding- Grants
The Foundation for Aids Research (amFAR)
Request for Proposals: Impact Grants Exploring HIV Persistence and Eradication
amFAR is pleased to announce the availability of funding to support research relevant to exploring HIV persistence and the potential for HIV eradication. amfAR has established a new funding mechanism known as Impact Grants to support the in-depth development of concepts where preliminary data have indicated genuine promise in curing HIV. Priority will be given to projects with a clear pathway to development of an implementable intervention in humans. Applicants must hold a faculty-level position. Amount: $2,000,000 over 4 years Deadline: LOI; March 3, 2015 The Pablove Foundation Childhood Cancer Research Grant The mission of The Pablove Foundation is to invest in underfunded, cutting-edge pediatric cancer research,
inspire cancer families through education, and improve the lives of children living with cancer. The research proposal should be in the area of Childhood or Adolescent Cancer. Special consideration will be given to proposals that focus on rare childhood cancers. Senior fellows or junior faculty with or without funding, but show a potential to successfully compete for federal grants will be given priority. Seed funding for new projects from Senior Investigators will also be considered. Amount: $50,000 for 1 year Deadline: March 3, 2015 Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN)
Young Investigator Award
This award is intended to support the development of outstanding research scientists and clinical cancer research investigators who have demonstrated a commitment to improving the understanding and treatment of bladder cancer. Applicants may be working in basic, translational, clinical, epidemiologic, bioengineering or any other field, but must be working in a research environment capable of supporting transformational bladder cancer research. Applicant must be within 6 years following completion of a professional degree or equivalent or clinical training such as residency or fellowship. Applicant must have a mentor within or approved by the sponsoring institution. Prior BCAN Young Investigator Award winners are not eligible to apply for this award. Amount: $50,000/ year for 2 years
Deadline: March 4, 2015
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Improving Healthcare Systems
PCORI helps people make informed healthcare decisions and improves healthcare delivery and outcomes by producing and promoting high-integrity, evidence-based information that comes from research guided by patients, caregivers, and the broader healthcare community. PCORI is seeking applications to study the comparative effectiveness of alternative features of healthcare systems (e.g., innovative technologies, incentive structures, service designs) intended to optimize the quality, outcomes, and/or efficiency of care for patients and that have the most potential for sustained impact and replication
within and across healthcare systems.
Amount: 1,500,000-$5,000,000 over 3-5 years
Deadline: LOI; March 6, 2015
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options
PCORI's purpose is to help patients, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers make better-informed healthcare decisions by advancing the quality and relevance of evidence about how to prevent, diagnose, treat, monitor, and manage diseases, disorders, and other healthcare conditions. PCORI is seeking applications for comparative effectiveness research designed to provide information that would inform critical decisions that face patients and caregivers, clinicians, policy makers, and healthcare system leaders. These decisions must be consequential and be occurring now in the absence of sound evidence about the comparative effectiveness of alternative approaches. There must be substantial potential that patients/caregivers will benefit from the new knowledge in ways that are important to them. The premise of this research is that the new knowledge will inform critical choices by patients and stakeholders in healthcare.
Amount: $2,000,000 over 3 years
Deadline: LOI; March 6, 2015
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Knowledge about how to optimally communicate and facilitate the effective use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER) findings by patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals needs to be strengthened. Well-documented barriers exist to the rapid transfer of evidence that could be useful for identifying healthcare options and facilitating informed decision making. PCORI seeks to fund projects that address critical knowledge gaps in the communication and dissemination process-both the communication and dissemination of research results to patients, their caregivers, and clinicians, as well as the communication between patients, caregivers, and clinicians-in the service of enabling patients and caregivers to make the best possible decisions in choosing among available options for care and treatment.
Amount: $1,500,00 over 3 years
Deadline: LOI; March 6, 2015
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Addressing Disparities
PCORI seeks to fund comparative effectiveness research (CER) studies that evaluate and compare new and/or enhanced interventions to reduce or eliminate disparities in health and healthcare. Studies in the Addressing Disparities program should focus on overcoming barriers that may disproportionately affect the outcomes of specific groups of patients, or identify best practices for sharing results and information about patient-centered outcomes research across patient groups. Nondomestic components of organizations based in the United States and foreign organizations may apply, as long as there is demonstrable benefit to the US healthcare system and US efforts in the area of patient-centered research can be clearly shown. Organizations may submit multiple applications for funding. Individuals are not permitted to apply.
Amount: $1,500,000 over 3 years
Deadline: LOI; March 6, 2015
The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF)
Research Grants
CBTF is soliciting grant applications that fall into the following categories: Pediatric Brain Tumor Grant Awards, Astrocytoma Research Awards, and Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Research Awards. Grants are evaluated in the context of their potential to:iImprove our understanding of the biology of pediatric brain tumors, improve the treatment of childhood brain tumors, and reduce or ameliorate tumor or treatment related sequelae.
Amount: Pediatric Award; $30,000/ year for 3 years. Astrocytoma Award; $50,000 for 1 year. Diffuse Award; $50,000 for 1 year.
Deadline: March 13, 2015
Lady Tata Memorial Trust
International Awards
The Lady Tata Memorial Trust invites applications worldwide for Awards to individuals to support research on leukemia. Awards are restricted to studies of leukemogenic agents, and the epidemiology, pathogenesis, immunology and genetic basis of leukemia and related diseases. Priority will be given to those intending to move to other centers with a view to establishing scientific collaboration between laboratories.
Amount: Up to £35,000 for 1 year
Deadline: March 15, 2015
The Medical Foundation-The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation
Taub Foundation Grants Program for Myelodysplastic Syndromes Research (MDS)The Taub Foundation Grants Program for MDS research supports high-impact, innovative translational research to understand the underlying causes of MDS and to advance its treatment and prevention.The Taub Program supports independent applicants at all stages of their careers. Awards are not restricted to applicants currently working in MDS. Applications from investigators in other fields and collaborative efforts are encouraged. Applicants may only submit one application as a PI. Applicants may not have funding support for a similar project.
Amount: $200,000/ year for 3 years
Deadline: March 17, 2015 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)
2015 Senior Research Awards
MMRF seeks proposals for the 2015 Senior Research Award Program, an initiative supporting researchers who have who have documented experience in blood cancer research or in research areas that are pertinent to multiple myeloma. The goal of this initiative is to accelerate the development of therapeutic approaches for myeloma and may include proposals in basic science or translational research.
Amount: $100,000/ year for 2 years
Deadline: March 17, 2015
The Sontag Foundation
Distinguished Scientist Awards
The Sontag Foundation is looking for early career scientists with the potential to create new waves across the brain cancer field. Applicant's career track and proposed research should demonstrate potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure or treatment of primary brain tumors/brain cancer. At the time of application, applicants must hold their first independent full-time faculty appointment at the level of assistant professor, independent researcher or equivalent position. Applicant's initial faculty appointment must have been made no earlier than March 1, 2012.
Amount: $150,000/ year for 4 years
Deadline: March 19, 2015
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award
The Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award aims to stimulate interest in radiation research early in an academic career development by giving junior faculty the opportunity to focus on radiation-related research in radiation oncology, biology, physics or outcomes/health services research. All applicants must be active members of ASTRO. Applicant must be within the first 3 years of his/her junior faculty appointment at the time the award commences. At least 75% of the applicant's full-time professional effort must be devoted to the goals of this award. The grant is not intended to support individuals who receive other career development awards (e.g. NIH, NCI, AHRQ, K07, K08, etc.). Applicants must name a primary mentor or co-mentor who together with the applicant is responsible for the planning, direction and execution of the program.
This award aims to develop CER leaders within radiation oncology, and to stimulate research focused on evaluating the effectiveness, complication profile, cost and cost-effectiveness of various radiation therapy treatments, as well as the comparative effectiveness when compared to other therapies. All applicants must be active members of ASTRO. Applicants must name a primary mentor or co-mentor who together with the applicant is responsible for the planning, direction, and execution of the study. If the applicant has previously demonstrated high-level healthcare services expertise as evidenced by extramural funding as a principal investigator in the discipline, then a mentor is not required. At least 40% of the applicant's full-time professional effort must be devoted to the goals of this award. Applicants may not submit more than one ASTRO research or education grant application per year. Acceptance of a research award from another source for the same project at the same time is prohibited.
Amount: $50,000/ year for 2 years
Deadline: March 28, 2015
Charles H. Hood Foundation
Child Health Research Awards Program
The Charles H. Hood Foundation seeks to improve the health and quality of life for children through grant support of New England-based pediatric researchers. The intent of the Child Health Research Awards Program is to support newly independent faculty, provide the opportunity to demonstrate creativity, and assist in the transition to other sources of research funding. Hospital divisions may select no more than two applicants to submit proposals. There are no limitations on departmental or institutional submissions. Applicants may submit only once to the Hood Foundation regardless of project focus unless specifically invited back by the Scientific Review Committee. Applicants are ineligible if they are currently or have previously been designated as PI or Co-P.I. on an R01, P01, Pioneer Award, New Innovator Award or equivalents from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) or Department of Defense (DOD).
HFSP is a niche program that support s innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Newly appointed investigators will be expected to propose projects with team members having distinct expertise and coming from different areas of the life sciences (if not from outside the life sciences). All members of a Young Investigators' grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position. Scientists applying for a research grant must organize an "international research team". The team is to be made up of "members", whereby one member of the team is designated as the "Principal Applicant" and the others as "Co-Applicants". The Principal Applicant must be located in a member country. No individual may be an applicant on more than one letter of intent in this review round. Scientists who are already receiving support from an HFSP research grant (as Principal Applicants or Co- Applicants) are not eligible to apply for a second research grant. Amount: Up to $450,000/ year for 3 years Deadline: LOI; March 31, 2015 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Program GrantsProgram Grants are meant to allow teams of independent researchers to develop new lines of research through the collaboration. Priority will be given to new, innovative research projects for which preliminary results might not necessarily be available. Applications including independent investigators early in their careers are encouraged. Applicants may establish a national interdisciplinary collaboration involving scientists with widely differing expertise, but this must be integrated into an international team (with almost exclusive emphasis on intercontinental collaborations). The team is to be made up of "members", whereby one member of the team is designated as the "Principal Applicant" and the others as "Co-Applicants". The Principal Applicant must be located in a member country. No individual may be an applicant on more than one letter of intent in this review round. Scientists who are already receiving support from an HFSP research grant (as Principal Applicants or Co- Applicants) are not eligible to apply for a second research grant.
Amount: Up to $450,000/ year for 3 years
Deadline: LOI; March 31, 2015
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All applications are due in the Office of Grants and Contracts five business days prior to the sponsor's deadline for DFCI review and approval prior to submission to the sponsor.
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Non-Federal Funding- Fellowships
Thrasher Research Fund Early Career AwardsThe Fund recognizes that young investigators may find it difficult to remain in pediatric research because of a lack of funding. Therefore, the purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area. Applicants who hold a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K award (including a K12 award) or a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) is not eligible to apply for the Early Career Award. A mentor may have only one Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Awardee at a time. Amount: $26,750 over 2 years Deadline: Concept papers; March 6, 2015 Society for Immunotherapy Therapy of Cancer (SITC)-Merck 2015 SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship AwardSITC recognizes that young scientists are instrumental to cancer immunotherapy research. This award aims to help the Society's mission to improve cancer patient outcomes through the development and application of cancer immunotherapy. This fellowship supports investigators involved in basic and translational research in cancer immunotherapy who have a vested interested in furthering the research and translation of cancer immunotherapy. Applicants must be a SITC member and commit 75% of the workday to research supported by the fellowship. Only one application is allowed per applicant. Amount: $100,000 for 1 year Deadline: March 9, 2015 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship AwardThe Foundation encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. Damon Runyon Fellowship awards are intended for full-time research. Level 1 Funding: Basic and physician-scientists must have received their degrees no more than one year prior to the FAC meeting at which their applications are to be considered. The cut-off date is day 15 of the month immediately preceding the month FAC meets. Applicant are expected to devote 100% effort to research. Level 2 Funding: Physician-scientist applicants must devote at least 80% of their time and effort to Damon Runyon-supported research activities. Applicants holding institutional K12 awards may apply, but must turn-back K12 funding if they are awarded a Damon Runyon Fellowship. No more than two Damon Runyon and/or Damon Runyon-Sohn Fellows will be funded to work with the same Sponsor at any given time. Only one fellowship application will be accepted from a Sponsor or Fellow per review session; there is no limit, however, to the number of applications from an institution. Applicants who have already accepted a postdoctoral research fellowship award are not eligible. Amount: Level 1 funding; $52,000/ year for 4 years. Level 2 funding; $62,000/ year for 4 years Deadline: March 16, 2015 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship AwardThe Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has joined together with the Sohn Conference Foundation, dedicated to curing pediatric cancers, to establish the Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award. This award provides funding to basic scientists and clinicians who conduct research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers. Applicants who have already accepted a postdoctoral research fellowship award are not eligible. No more than two Damon Runyon and/or Damon Runyon-Sohn Fellows will be funded to work with the same sponsor at any given time. Stipends are based on level 1 or level 2 funding. Amount: Level 1 funding; $52,000/ year for 4 years. Level 2 funding; $62,000/ year for 4 years Deadline: March 16, 2015
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
ASTRO Residents/Fellows in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grant
ASTRO Residents/Fellows in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grant aims to support residents or fellows planning a career that focuses primarily on basic science or clinical research in radiation oncology. It is designed for the exceptional trainee and implies a commitment to a career in research. Applicants must not have previously served as a PI or co-PI on grants totaling $50,000 or more in a single calendar year. At least 75% of the applicant's full-time professional effort must be devoted to
the goals of this award.
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year
Deadline: March 27, 2015
The International Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program provides financial support for the post-doctoral research of bright young scientists who pursue research and advanced training. Applicants must have received an advanced degree no more than three years prior to the date of their applications. AICF's emphasis, is funding post-doctoral researchers who will be completing their first full post-doctoral year of research during the AICF fellowship period. Fellowships are offered in the United States or in Italy. If applying for a fellowship in the United States, applicants must be Italian citizens and cannot have resided in the United States for more than 1 year at the time of application.
Amount: $40,000/ year for 2 years
Deadline: March 31, 2015
All Fellowships are due into the Office of Grants and Contracts five business days prior to sponsor deadline for review.
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