DOD Announces Research Funding Opportunities

DOD Announces Research Funding Opportunities:
The following pre-announcement on a postdoctoral fellowship award may be of interest to those working on colon cancer/breast cancer or pancreatic cancer/breast cancer (BRCA2 mutations) research.

The fiscal year 2012 (FY12) Defense Appropriations Act provides $120 million to the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) to support innovative, high-impact breast cancer research. The BCRP is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

The FY12 BCRP program announcement and general application instructions for the following award are anticipated to be posted on grants.gov in October.

Eligibility

• Principal Investigator: doctoral graduates (PhD or MD). Clinical investigators are eligible to apply. Must have no more than two years experience in the proposed research setting and no more than four years of postdoctoral research experience as of the application deadline.
• Mentor or formal co-mentor must have breast cancer research experience, including current funding and publications.

Key Mechanism Elements

• Supports the training of exceptionally talented recent doctoral or medical graduates who have demonstrated that they are the "best and brightest" of their peers.
• Individualized training program and mentorship should prepare the principal investigator for an independent career at the forefront of breast cancer research.
• Proposed research should address a critical problem in breast cancer.

Funding

• Maximum funding of $300,000 for direct costs ($100,000 per year, plus indirect costs).
• Period of performance not to exceed three years.

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website (http://cdmrp.org) prior to the pre-application deadline. Applications must be submitted through the federal government’s single-entry portal, grants.gov. Submission deadlines are not available until the program announcement is released. Requests for email notification of the program announcement release may be sent to help@cdmrp.org. For more information about the BCRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website.