Deadline: 12 September 2016
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research initiative seeks applications from eligible applicants to promote and support creative, paradigm-shifting cancer research that may not be funded through conventional channels. It is expected that these grants will catalyze significant scientific discoveries and help talented young investigators gain scientific independence.
This program represents the AACR’s flagship funding initiative to stimulate highly innovative research from young investigators.
Award Information
The grants provide $450,000 over three years for expenses related to the research project, which may include salary and benefits of the grant recipient, postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, graduate students (including tuition costs), and research assistants, research/laboratory supplies, equipment, travel applicable to the research project, publication charges for manuscripts that pertain directly to the funded project, other research expenses, and indirect costs.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants
- Applicants must have a doctoral degree (including PhD, MD, DO, DC, ND, DDS, DVM, ScD, DNS, PharmD, or equivalent) in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral degree.
- At the start of the grant term on July 1, 2017, applicants must hold a tenure-eligible appointment (or equivalent, if institution does not follow a tenure system) at the rank of assistant professor (Appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible; Applicants that have progressed to associate professor appointments are also not eligible.); Have held a tenure-eligible assistant professor appointment for no more than three years (i.e., cannot have held a tenure-eligible appointment prior to July 2, 2014); and work at an academic, medical, or research institution anywhere in the world.
- If eligibility is based on a future position, the position must be confirmed at the time of submission, and cannot be contingent upon receiving this grant.
Project
- The proposed research must represent a highly innovative approach to a major contemporary challenge in cancer research.
- The funded projects must have the potential to lead to groundbreaking discoveries in the field, and transform our understanding of the tumorigenesis process and/or our ability to treat, detect, or prevent cancer.
- The research can be in any area of basic, translational, or clinical science.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit Letter of Intents online via given website.
For more information, please visit AACR NextGen Grants.