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Request for Applications: Prostate Cancer Foundation announces the PCF-Honorable A. David Mazzone Special Challenge Award Research Program 2012.
These two-year awards will provide a total of $1 million per team. Challenge Awards support large-scale research projects. Proposals must be from teams of at least 3 highly experienced investigators capable of providing unique scientific expertise to the solution of a significant problem in prostate cancer research. A team may be assembled from one institution, or several institutions, from across the globe. These awards focus on funding Treatment Sciences: Investigations of new ideas in man or laboratory support of a high impact clinical investigation.
Deadline: www.pcfscience.org will accept applications during February 15 - March 16, 2012.
Request for Applications: A. David Mazzone Awards Program Funding Opportunities 2012
The A. David Mazzone Awards Program (a non-Federal funding opportunity) is now accepting applications for its second year of funding. Two of these award categories will be funded by DF/HCC in the amount of $100,000 to $500,000 per project. The third award category, provided by the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) in conjunction with the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), will fund $1million per project.
Request for Applications: The Prostate Cancer Foundation has been contracted by the Coalition to Cure Prostate Cancer to administer the Coalition to Cure Prostate Cancer (CCPC) 2012 Young Investigator Award program. The CCPC will fund four (4) Young Investigators in Canada in 2012.
Consistent with CCPC’s goal to end death and suffering from prostate cancer, these awards are focused on developing a gifted cohort of investigators to undertake the next generation of prostate cancer research. The awards will be three years in duration and will provide $75,000 per year in financial support to advance the career and research efforts of the awardees. Mentorship is required for every CCPC Young Investigator Award applicant and grantee. We therefore beseech established investigators to identify, mentor, and encourage qualified candidates to apply for this award.
The award description and eligibility requirements are available at www.coalitiontocureprostatecancer.org.
Deadline: February 29, 2012 (The online application submission form will go live at www.coalitiontocureprostatecancer.org after February 1, 2012).
CLOSED: Request for Applications: SU2C-PCF Prostate Dream Team Translational Cancer Research Grant
Stand Up To Cancer and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, along with the American Association for Cancer Research, call upon the cancer research community to submit letters of intent for a new Dream Team dedicated to prostate cancer research. We invite submission of ideas for translational cancer research projects that would address therapeutic interventions for advanced prostate cancer with special emphasis on metastatic disease, and deliver near-term patient benefit through investigation by a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, synergistic Dream Team of expert investigators.
Deadline: November, 28 2011
CLOSED: Request for Applications: Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Awards 2011
The Prostate Cancer Foundation champions human capital investment to fast-forward solutions to prostate cancer. We are pleased to announce a new round of funding for Prostate Cancer Researchers. Consistent with our goal to end death and suffering from prostate cancer, we would like to focus efforts on developing another gifted cohort of human capital in prostate cancer research. Highly innovative basic science programs will be carefully considered, but priority will be given to "bench to bedside" translational research proposals with the potential to deliver near term benefit to patients.
Deadline: The deadline for submission has passed.
CLOSED: Request for Applications: Prostate Cancer Foundation-Honorable A. David Mazzone Special Challenge Award Research Program 2011
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is pleased to announce a new Challenge Award funding opportunity entitled the PCF-Honorable A. David Mazzone Special Challenge Award Research Program.
These two-year awards will provide a total of $1 million per team. Challenge Awards support large-scale research projects. Proposals must be from teams of at least 3 highly experienced investigators capable of providing unique scientific expertise to the solution of a significant problem in prostate cancer research. A team may be assembled from one institution, or several institutions, from across the globe.
This round of awards will focus on funding Treatment Science: studies of new ideas in man or laboratory support of a high impact clinical investigation.
Note: The funding agency for the Program is a grant from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts of a pool of unclaimed funds from the 2004 class action suit settlement by TAP Pharmaceuticals. The class action suit was related to marketing and sales practices for the prostate cancer drug Lupron. The program is administered jointly through DF/HCC and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Deadline: The deadline for submission has passed.
CLOSED: Request for Applications: Treatment Sciences Creativity Awards 2011
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is now accepting applications for the PCF 2011 Creativity Awards. This funding mechanism will provide two years of support (up to $150,000 per year for direct costs only) for highly innovative prostate cancer research proposals that are not fundable by other existing mechanisms.
This round of awards will focus on funding Treatment Science: studies of new ideas in man or laboratory support of a high impact clinical investigation.
Deadline: The deadline for submission has passed.
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