All USA USA Territories: American Samoa (USA); Guam (USA); Puerto Rico (USA); Virgin Islands (USA); Northern Mariana Islands (USA); USA Compact Free Associations:The Federated States of Micronesia (USA) Marshall Islands (USA) Republic of Palau (USA) International, Israel and Canada.
Important Dates
LOI Date: 09/22/23 Deadline: 01/08/24 3:30 PM EST
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Grant Description
Grants to USA, Canada, and International individuals for medical research projects related to pediatric cancer. Applicants must submit a letter of intent prior to submitting a full proposal. Funding is intended to support scientists, researchers, professors, and doctors conducting research projects on pediatric cancer.
A Collaborative Pediatric Cancer Research Awards Program offers three grant mechanisms:
Postdoctoral and Clinical Research Fellow Grant:
Independent Investigator Grant
Consortium Grant
The application must address at least one of the following priority areas related to cancer in children, adolescents and/or young adults up to age 24:
Innovative approaches to research that could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
Basic science studies that are likely to lead to a new discovery.
Under-studied cancer types.
Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
Personalized, targeted, alternative or integrative research proposals.
Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.
Fellowship:
- Fellows conducting pediatric cancer research as clinical fellows in pediatric hematology/oncology and/or postdoctoral research fellows.
- The Fellow Grant is available for MD, DO, PharmD or PhD fellows conducting research after the first year of their fellowship.
- Fellows in the last year of their fellowship are only eligible for a one-year grant. They may reapply for an Independent Investigator Grant as a young investigator the following grant cycle. To determine whether you apply for a Fellow Grant or an Independent Investigator Grant, consider your position as of July 1, 2024.
- Principal investigators do not need to be U.S. citizens or located at a U.S. institution.
- Principal investigators’ institution may be a hospital, university or private lab.
Young Investigator/Independent Investigator:
- All academic ranks, Instructor to Professor, and research scientists with MD, DO, PharmD and/or PhD degrees may apply.
- Rally defines young investigators as researchers no more than five years post fellowship. To determine whether you apply for a Fellow Grant or an Independent Investigator Grant as a young investigator, consider your position as of July 1, 2024.
- Principal investigators do not need to be U.S. citizens or located at a U.S. institution.
- Principal investigators’ institution may be a hospital, university or private lab.
Consortium Eligibility:
- All academic ranks, Instructor to Professor, and research scientists with MD, DO, PharmD and/or PhD degrees may apply.
- Consortiums are three or more institutions collaborating on a grant-supported research project.
- Principal investigators do not need to be U.S. citizens or located at an U.S. institution.
- Principal investigators’ institution may be a hospital, university or private lab.
Ineligible
The following will not be reviewed:
- Proposals that have no direct relevance to pediatric cancer nor fall within the scope of A Collaborative Pediatric Cancer Research Awards Program.
- Proposals for infrastructure programs.
- Incomplete applications and/or applications received after the deadline of January 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM EST.
Rally will not fund grants for construction of buildings, remodeling of laboratories or purchase of land. They will not fund human embryonic stem cell research. They also do not pay indirect costs. If you have any additional questions about the definition of indirect costs as applicable to the Collaborative Organizations, please contact the Grants Manager.
Pre-Application Information
Timeline:
- Letter of Intent Open: August 14, 2023
- Letter of Intent Due: September 22, 2023, 3:30 PM EST
- Full Application Open (by invitation only): November 6, 2023
- Full Application Due: January 8, 2024, 3:30 PM EST
- Earliest Award Notification: April 1, 2024
- Project Period Start Date: July 1, 2024
There is no limit on the number of Letters of Intent that may be submitted by an institution or principal investigator.
Estimated Size of Grant
Fellow and Independent Investigator Grants up to $50,000 and Consortium Grants up to $100,000 for one year of support.
Term of Contract
All funded grants will start on July 1, 2024
- Fellow Grants: Grants are for one or two years of support.
- Young Investigator/Independent Investigator Grants: Grants are for one or two years of support.
- Consortium Grants: Grants are for one or two years of support.
Applicants may request additional funding for a project previously funded by the Collaborative Organizations.
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