February 2, 2019
Channing Der, PhD, a member of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, will receive the “Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement” at an awards banquet April 8. Der is one of 24 faculty members and teaching assistants who have been named winners of Carolina’s …
January 11, 2019
The NCBiotech Translational Research Grant program funds projects that explore potential commercial applications or initiate the early commercial development of university-held life science inventions. The technology must have the potential to solve a real-world problem as a commercial product in the life science sector. Award Amount: Up to $100,000 Deadline: Mar. 13, 2019 at noon.
October 1, 2018
The 21st Century Cures Act was signed into law in Dec. 2016 and authorizes $1.8 billion over 7 years to fund the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot. In response to recommendations provided in the Blue-Ribbon Panel report, the National Cancer Institute has established implementation teams to consider multiple ways to fund Cancer Moonshot-related research. The teams have identified nine upcoming scientific opportunities that directly address the goals of the Cancer Moonshot: Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN), Pediatric Immunotherapy Discovery and Development Network (PI-DDN), Mechanisms of Cancer Drug Resistance and Sensitivity Network Coordinating Center, Collaborative Research Network for Fusion Oncoproteins in Childhood Cancers, Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) and Patient Reported Outcomes-CTCAE (PRO-CTCAE), Improving Management of Symptoms Across Cancer Treatments (IMPACT), Approaches to Identify and Care for Individuals with Inherited Cancer Syndromes, Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and Follow-Up Through Implementation Science (ACCSIS), and Human Tumor Atlas (HTA) Network.
April 17, 2018
Globally approximately 85 percent of the research applications submitted to government funding agencies go unfunded. OnPAR, a collaboration between NIH and the defense, engineering, and health contractor Leidos, lets researchers upload rejected NIH proposals to an online portal where potential funders can review them. Registration is free and the application process is estimated to take five (5) minutes.
April 17, 2018
[The UNC Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations has identified the following private funding opportunity. Please contact Kavita Hall, kavita.hall@unc.edu or 919-962-2013, for assistance.] The Laura and John Arnold Foundation’s Moving the Needle initiative seeks to encourage state or local jurisdictions, or other entities, to adopt social programs shown in well-conducted randomized controlled trials (RCTs) …
April 17, 2018
The NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities is sponsoring Career Development Awards to Promote Diversity. These awards provide funding and three to five years of protected time to support underrepresented individuals in intensive, mentored and non-mentored, cancer-related biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research career development experiences. The awards include NCI Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01); NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K08); NCI Transition Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K22). More information is available on the Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) page.
April 3, 2018
[The UNC Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations has identified the following private funding opportunity. Please contact Brooke Church, Brooke_Church@unc.edu or 919-962-0024, for assistance.] The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is accepting applications to support early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. The research …
