Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA
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DOD Prostate Cancer, Idea Development Award
The Idea Development Award is intended to support new ideas that represent innovative approaches to prostate cancer research and have the potential to make an important contribution to the PCRP mission. The key component...
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Deadline2466 days agoLocationAlabamaTypegrantLevelFederalClosedposted Apr 5, 2019
✦ AI Summary
Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
Funding amount: total funding pool ~$35,520,000.
Next deadline: September 19, 2019.
Issued by: Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA.
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Deadline
2466 days ago
Sep 19, 2019
Total pool
$35.5M
About this opportunity
The Idea Development Award is intended to support new ideas that represent innovative approaches to prostate cancer research and have the potential to make an important contribution to the PCRP mission. The key components of this award mechanism are: Innovation: Research deemed innovative may represent a new paradigm, challenge current paradigms, look at existing problems from new perspectives, leverage unique study populations, or exhibit other highly creative qualities. Research that is an incremental advance upon published data is not considered innovative. Multidisciplinary projects are especially encouraged. Impact: Applications are required to address and provide a solution to one or more of the FY19 PCRP Overarching Challenges. The potential impact of the research, both short-term and long-term, in addressing the FY19 PCRP Overarching Challenge(s) should be clearly described. High-impact research will, if successful, significantly advance prostate cancer research and/or patient care. Preliminary Data: Due to this award’s emphasis on innovation, the presentation of preliminary data relevant to prostate cancer and the proposed project is encouraged, but not required. Any unpublished, preliminary data provided should originate from the laboratory of the Principal Investigator (PI) or a member(s) of the research team. Regardless whether preliminary data is included or not, applications should be based on a sound scientific rationale that is established through logical reasoning and/or critical review and analysis of the literature. To maximize the potential for impact, investigators are strongly encouraged to incorporate the following components into their study design where appropriate: authentication of proposed cell lines; statistical rigor of preclinical animal experiments and epidemiological studies; incorporation of experiments to assess clinical relevance and translatability of findings; and validation in patient cohorts. As such, the PCRP-funded Prostate Cancer Biorepository Network (PCBN) (http://www.prostatebiorepository.org) and/or the North Carolina – Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP) (https://pcap.bioinf.unc.edu) are important resources to consider if retrospectively collected human anatomical substances or correlated clinical data are critical to the proposed studies. Studies utilizing data derived from large patient studies that include long-term health records, biospecimen repositories, and pre-existing research and that apply state-of-the-art genomic and/or proteomic analysis, bioinformatics, and/or mathematical models to such data are also encouraged. New Investigator category: The Idea Development Award mechanism encourages research ideas from investigators in the early stages of their careers. The New Investigator category of this award mechanism is designed to allow applications naming PIs early in their faculty appointments, or in the process of developing independent research careers, to compete for funding separately from Established Investigators. All New Investigator applicants must meet specific eligibility criteria as described in Section II.C, Eligibility Information. PIs using the New Investigator category are required to include a collaborator (or collaborators) appropriate to the application who has experience in prostate cancer research as demonstrated by a record of funding and publications in prostate cancer research. It is the responsibility of the PI to describe how the collaboration(s) will augment his or her expertise to best address the research question. Multidisciplinary projects are encouraged, and multi-institutional projects are allowed. Each proposed study must include a clearly stated plan for interactions among all team members and organizations involved. The plan must include communication, coordination of research progress and results, and data transfer.
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