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Greetings!

We hope that you find this publication helpful in your funding search. We also encourage you to visit our intranet funding page, which offers more information on funding resources available to faculty and fellows.

DFCI Limited Applications

Please follow the link below to see announcements of current internal deadlines, how the process works, and contact information.

DFCI Limited Applications

Internal Funding

Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC)
Multiple Myeloma SPORE - Developmental Research Project
The Multiple Myeloma Program of DF/HCC applications for funding of research on myeloma. While the proposed research can be basic or clinical, bench to bedside and bedside to bench strategies need to be addressed, since the purpose of this program is to promote translational research in multiple myeloma. A prior track record in myeloma research is preferred, but not necessary. Funding will be provided on a renewable one-year basis. Email candice_hachey@dfci.harvard.edu for applications and instructions.
Amount: $86,000 for 1 year
Deadline: July 15, 2016 by email: candice_hachey@dfci.harvard.edu

Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC)
Multiple Myeloma SPORE - Career Enhancement Award
The Myeloma Program of DF/HCC applications for a Career Enhancement Award in Myeloma Research. Eligible candidates are those who are in their final year of clinical fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship (MD, PhD, or MD/PhD required). A track record of interest in myeloma research is required. The individual would become a member of the DF/HCC Myeloma SPORE. Email candice_hachey@dfci.harvard.edu for applications and instructions.
Amount: $43,000 for 1 year
Deadline: July 15, 2016 by email: candice_hachey@dfci.harvard.edu



Federal Funding


Non-Federal Funding-Grants

The Hope Foundation
SWOG's mission is to improve the practice of cancer medicine in preventing, detecting, and treating cancer, and to enhance the quality of life for cancer survivors, primarily through design and conduct of clinical trials. Any SWOG investigator eligible for NIH funding is encouraged to submit to this program.
Amount: $50,000 for 1-2 years
Deadline: July 1, 2016

The Lung Cancer Research Foundation
The Lung Cancer Research Foundation's grant program provides funding for innovative research focused on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer. The Foundation encourages applications for projects investigating a wide variety of research topics.
Amount: Up to $150,000 for 2 years
Deadline: July 1, 2016

Damon Runyan Cancer Research Foundation
This award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative and, if successful, have the strong potential for high impact in the cancer field. It is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding.
Amount: Up to $300,000 for 2 years
Deadline: July 1, 2016

Susan G. Komen
CCR Grants provide unique opportunities for scientists who have held faculty positions for no more than five years at the time of Application to achieve research independence. CCR grants provide support for hypothesis-driven research projects that have significant potential to advance our understanding of breast cancer, lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality, and move us toward the goal of a world without breast cancer. There are two research focus areas: Basic/Transitional and Clinical.
Amount: Up to $450,000 for 2-3 years
Deadline: LOI July 14, 2016

HESI THRIVE
THRIVE Research Grant Program
THRIVE offers funding for basic science, clinical, and transitional research that enhances our ability to predict when and how adverse effects may occur in patients who have received cancer treatment and supports the development of approaches to avoid or lessen these effects. THRIVE gives preference to those innovative research projects that engage both non-clinical AND clinical scientists in the research project design and/or implementation.
Amount: Up to $50,000 for 2 years
Deadline: LOI July 15, 2016

Free To Breathe
Free to Breathe has a new funding opportunity focused on research to investigate strategies and interventions to increase clinical trial accrual to therapeutic lung cancer clinical trials. Applicants may not have knowingly received any research funding from the tobacco industry, its parent companies, or subsidiaries, within the last 5 years.
Amount: Up to $100,000 for 2 years
Deadline: July 17, 2016

Breast Cancer Alliance (BCA)
Young Investigator Grant
The mission of the Breast Cancer Alliance (BCA) is to improve survival rates and quality of life for those impacted by breast cancer through better prevention, early detection, treatment and cure.
Amount: $125,00 for 2 years
Deadline: July 22, 2016

American Heart Association (AHA)
The objective of the IRG is to support highly innovative, high-risk, high-reward research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Candidates with a faculty (or faculty equivalent) appointment are eligible to apply. An applicant may onlly submit one association-wide IRG application and one other association-wide application per deadline.
Amount: $150,000 for 2 years
Deadline: July 26, 2016

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.

Non-Federal Funding-Fellowships 

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
Research Fellowships
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation supports early postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical sciences. Candidates who hold, or are in the final stages of obtaining a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree and are seeking beginning postdoctoral training in basic biomedical research are eligible to apply for a fellowship. The Foundation accepts applications from candidates who have no more than one year of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the deadline for submitting the application (July 1, 2016), and who have received a PhD (or D.Phil. or equivalent) degree no more than two years before the deadline, or an M.D. degree no more than three years before the deadline.
Amount: $160.500 for 3 years
Deadline: July 1, 2016

Susan G. Komen
Post Doctoral Fellowship Grants  (PDF) - Basic/Transitional Research
PDF Grants are intended to attract and preserve today's young scientists and clinicians who will fuel the future and become the next generation of leaders in the field of breast cancer research. This grant mechanism provides support for research projects that are laboratory or field based, that do not meet Komen's definition of clinical research. 
Amount: Up to $60,000 per year for 2-3 years
Deadline: LOI July 14,2016

Susan G. Komen
Post Doctoral Fellowship Grants - Clinical Research
This grant mechanism provides support for fellows proposing clinical, patient-oriented research projects that involve direct interactions with human subjects/patients. 
Amount: Up to $60,000 per year for 2-3 years
Deadline: LOI July 14, 2016

American Heart Association (AHA)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award - Founders Affiliate
AHA helps to empower postdoctoral trainees who are not independent with assistance and training from a mentor to initiate careers in cardiovascular and stroke research. The awardee will be expected to devote at least 80 percent of full-time work either to research or to activities pursuant to independent research.
Amount: Up to $120,800 for 2 years
Deadline: July 28, 2016

All Fellowships are due into 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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