Call for Proposals - Deadline 3-29-2019

We are pleased to announce the launch of the NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research 2019 competition. Click on the link below to view more information. Please Share with your faculty!

• Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, March 29, 2019

• Award Cycle: Available

• Discipline/Subject Area: Integrative Cancer Research

• Description:

NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research

Proposal mechanism to obtain student support

Deadline 11:59PM on Friday March 29th 2019

NCI Investigators and UMD Faculty are invited to submit collaborative projects for graduate student support.

It is anticipated that several graduate students will be supported through NCI CRTA (Cancer Research Training Award) fellowships starting in the Fall 2019 semester and that tuition will be covered by the University of Maryland. Seed awards will be initially for one year, with a possibility for competitive renewal for second and third year funding. It is expected that NCI investigators and UMD faculty will apply for other sources of project funding to continue the collaboration past this initial project support.

For consideration, proposals need to be submitted to the Seed Grant Portal of the University of Maryland:

Application Materials:

The following information has to be included in a single pdf file:

A. Cover Page (1 page)

• Title of project

• Contact info for one UMD faculty member (authorized to be primary advisor for a graduate student) and one NCI researcher (authorized to host CTRA fellows),

• Name and Graduate Program affiliation of student

• Laymen’s abstract/picture: Four sentences describing the project in laymen’s terms plus a picture/figure

B. Proposed Research (max 2 pages, excluding figures and references) Short research description focused on the project to be carried out by the joint student which should address, and will be judged on the following criteria:

• Relevance to cancer
• Feasibility
• Innovation
• Research design
• Potential for first author publication by the student
• Student qualification for the project

C. Additional required information (not included in the 2 page limit for the Proposed Research)

• Logistics and Impact Statement:
  • How will the collaborative effort be coordinated (meetings, data sharing, etc)?
  • How will the project impact the research direction of the NCI and UMD laboratories?
  • Identify potential future funding sources.
• Biosketch of NCI PI (NIH format max 4 pages or NSF format)
• Biosketch of UMD PI (NIH format max 4 pages, or NSF format)
• Biosketch and transcript of student (max 3 pages)

Awardees and their mentors are expected to participate in activities of the Partnership. Annual workshops and a monthly seminar series alternating between NCI and UMD are planned.

Review Process and Criteria: The aim of this partnership is to bring the expertise and resources in the mathematical sciences, physical sciences, and engineering at the University of Maryland College Park, and basic, clinical, and translational research expertise of the NCI/CCR to bear on the most pressing problems in cancer research.

Seed awards will be judged based on student qualifications as well as potential impact, relevance to cancer, innovation and synergism between physics, math, bioengineering & biocomputation and cancer biology.

All applications will be reviewed by an ad-hoc committee of NCI and UMD Faculty, Staff and Investigators.

For more information or please visit www.cancertechnology.umd.edu

Program contacts:

Dan Larson (NCI) dan.larson@nih.gov

Doron Levy (UMD) dlevy@umd.edu

Grégoire Altan-Bonnet (NCI) gregoire.altan-bonnet@nih.gov

Wolfgang Losert (UMD) wlosert@umd.edu

Submit here.

UMD Applicants can login with their UMD credentials. Other applicants can register new accounts (see button near the bottom of the login page). If they have difficulties, they can reach out to Hana Kabashi at hkabashi@umd.edu with any issues.