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August 2024 EGRP Cancer Epidemiology News

EGRP Cancer Epidemiology News

August 2024

NCI Funding Opportunities to Foster Research Independence for Early Career Investigators

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) provides funding opportunities in support of research career development in all areas of cancer research, including cancer prevention, control, behavioral sciences, population sciences, and translational research.

K awards, also known as career development awards, provide support for senior postdoctoral fellows or faculty-level candidates. The objective of these programs is to bring candidates to the point where they are able to conduct their research independently and are competitive for major grant support.

NCI Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)

NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) is pleased to be partnering with the Center for Cancer Training to promote new K funding opportunities for early career researchers working in cancer control and population sciences. DCCPS invites applications from early career scientists conducting research in cancer control science through NOT-CA-24-022, published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Please refer to NOT-CA-24-022 for more information about the scientific areas of interest to DCCPS and how to apply for funding.

The next application due date is October 12, 2024.

For more information about the K01 mechanism, see https://www.cancer.gov/grants-training/training/funding/k01. For application acceptance in the subject area of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, applicants must include “NOT-CA-24-022” (without quotation marks) in the Agency Routing Identifier field (box 4B) of the SF424 R&R form. NCI K01 applications without this information in box 4B will not be accepted and will be withdrawn.

Worta McCaskill-Stevens Career Development Award for Community Oncology and Prevention Research (K12)

NCI is offering administrative supplements for current NCI K12 awardees to support an additional scholar who is establishing a career in improving the health outcomes of people with HIV and cancer. The purpose of this K12 award is to support the training of clinical scientists in community cancer prevention, screening, intervention, control, and treatment research. Special emphasis is placed on training clinical scientists whose career goal is to improve the care and outcomes of minority health populations and populations with health disparities that are underrepresented in clinical trials using an equity lens. Please refer to NOT-CA-24-081 for more information about these administrative supplements and details on how to apply for funding.

Applications must be submitted by October 30, 2024.

For more information, visit https://www.cancer.gov/grants-training/training/funding/k12-mccaskill-stevens.

Other K Awards Issued by NCI

NCI also offers several other K award funding opportunities for clinician-scientists and investigators with quantitative scientific and engineering backgrounds. In addition, NCI offers Pathway to Independence awards to help investigators obtain independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. Visit the Center for Cancer Training’s web page, Funding for Cancer Training, for more details about these other K award mechanisms.

New Funding Opportunities

  • The Confluence of Cancer Stigma and HIV Stigma in HIV-positive Individuals Diagnosed with Cancer
  • Population Genomic Screening in Primary Care
    • RFA-HG-24-021, Cooperative Agreement (U01, Clinical Trial Required)
    • RFA-HG-24-022, Coordinating Center (U01, Clinical Trial Optional)
    • RFA-HG-24-023, Sequencing Center (U01, Clinical Trial Optional)
      • Note: NHGRI will host a pre-application webinar for these funding opportunities on October 10, 2024, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET.
  • PAR-24-274 , NCI Research Specialist (Clinician Scientist) Award (R50, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
  • NOT-CA-24-074, Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Advancing Diet and Physical Activity Biomarkers for Assessing Lifestyle Interventions in Cancer Prevention and Cancer Interception Research
  • NOT-NS-24-075, NOSI: HEAL Initiative: Development and Translation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices via Blueprint MedTech
  • NOT-CA-24-081, NOSI: Administrative Supplements for NCI K12 Program Institutional Career Development Awards to Support an Additional Scholar Who is Establishing a Career in Improving the Health Outcomes of People With HIV and Cancer
  • NOT-DK-24-029, NOSI: Analysis of Existing Linked Datasets to Understand the Relationship between Housing Program Participation and Risk for Chronic Diseases and Other Conditions (R01, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
  • NOT-CA-24-078, Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology (K12, Clinical Trial Optional)
  • Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Policy Research for Health Equity

Prize Competitions

Requests for Proposals

  • PHS-2025-1, A Solicitation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract Proposals

Grants Policy Announcements

  • NOT-OD-24-163, NIH’s Adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support by May 25, 2025
  • NOT-OD-24-165, Retirement of NIH’s Automated Just-in-Time Email Notification

Requests for Information

  • NOT-RM-24-011, Opportunities and Challenges in Enabling and Advancing Precision Medicine Artificial Intelligence by Integrating Clinical Imaging with Multimodal Data (responses due September 23, 2024)
  • NOT-OD-24-150, Request for Information on Recommendations on Re-envisioning U.S. Postdoctoral Research Training and Career Progression within the Biomedical Research Enterprise (responses due October 23, 2024)

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Last Updated: 27 Aug, 2024