Limited Submission Opportunity:
St. Baldrick's Pediatric Cancer Awards.
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Internal Pre-Applications Due
Tuesday, October 31 at 5:00 p.m.
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The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. Since the Foundation's first grants as an independent charity in 2005, St. Baldrick's has invested more than $338 million in childhood cancer research grants worldwide.
St. Baldrick’s Foundation funds biomedical research to better understand the causes of pediatric cancers and to advance its prevention, treatment, and cure. Projects should be clearly aligned with the research goals of the St. Baldrick's Foundation. Current funding priorities are: new discovery, translational research and early-phase clinical trials, Phase III Trials/infrastructure (not included in this cycle), and education of new pediatric oncology researchers. In addition to research to understand the biology of childhood cancers and discover leads to more effective treatments, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Adolescents & young adults; survivorship, outcomes, and quality of life; supportive care; epidemiology and pediatric cancer predispositions; precision medicine; and alternative & complementary therapies.
PIs may apply in three funding categories:
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Scholar (Career Development) Award. This is an early-career award intended to develop the independent pediatric cancer research careers of highly qualified investigators. Applicants should hold a PhD, MD, or DO degree and be within the first 7 years of their initial full-time faculty appointment at the time the award begins (at UC San Diego, an appointment in the professor series). No other comparable career development award may be held prior to or at the time the award begins. Applicants holding or awarded R01s or holding a K-award at the time of the LOI are not eligible (institutional K12 funding is allowable). Applicants must have an appropriate Sponsor who provides supervision, facilities, and research support. Scholars must devote 40% effort to the project, and awards are to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary and fringe. Other personnel and/or non personnel costs are not allowed. View complete eligibility requirements and program guidelines.
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Research Grant. These grants are for specific two-year research projects which are hypothesis driven and may be either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological in nature. Grants will be $100K/y or less. Co-Investigators are allowed; however, the application must be submitted under one lead investigator. View complete eligibility requirements and program guidelines.
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International Scholar. This three-year award, with an option for two additional years based on progress, is to train researchers from low-and middle-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) to prepare them to fill specific stated needs in an area of childhood cancer research upon returning to their country of origin. The research proposal must include 2–3 years of training at UC San Diego, as well as the implementation of a carefully constructed research project at the institution of origin. Applications must be submitted by the sponsoring institution, with a letter of concurrence and support from the institution of origin. Applicants must commit to return to their country of origin upon completion of the training period at the sponsoring institution. Applicants must have completed a pediatric oncology fellowship or two years of equivalent training. Applicants must be early-career and possibly hold a junior faculty-level position and must have held such a position for no longer than five years at the time of the application deadline. Applicants must have a Sponsor (Faculty Mentor) from a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program at UC San Diego. View complete eligibility requirements and program guidelines.
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All research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to pediatric cancer. They may be in any discipline of basic, clinical, translational, or epidemiological research. Due to high interest from donors and low numbers of past applications, submissions focused on the following topics are of particular interest and may qualify for an exception to submission limits: Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and glioblastoma (GBM); Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic; Complementary and alternative therapies; Ewing sarcoma; Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis; Rhabdoid tumors. Note: St. Baldrick’s funds may not be used for human embryonic stem cell research.
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Prospective applicants should review detailed guidelines for specific award types (linked above). Examples of recent awards can be viewed on the sponsor's website.
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- Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 5:00 pm
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Funding Organization's Deadline: Friday, December 8, 2023
- Limited Submission: UC San Diego may submit one LOI in each category. Proposals focused on certain areas of scientific interest may qualify for an exception to stated limits.
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Amount note: Scholar and international scholar awards are up to $330K/3y, with potential for an additional 1-2 years of funding. Research awards are up to $200K/2y. No institutional overhead or indirect funding is provided under the terms of the grant.
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Funding organization: St. Baldrick's Foundation
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Please submit the following materials through ucsd.infoready4.com by the internal deadline. Please upload required files in PDF format.
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Identifying information (see ucsd.infoready4.com for details)
- Application type (Scholar, International Scholar, or Research)
- Name of required Sponsor (Faculty Mentor)
- Project summary
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Times New Roman, 11-point font, .5 inch minimum margins all around, 1 page max. References cited only may be included on a second page.
- Scholar and Research applicants:
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Briefly address the relevance of the proposed research project to the mission of St. Baldrick’s, to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives; the rationale for the proposed research project; and the timeline of the progression of research (gantt charts preferred).
- International Scholar applicants:
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Briefly address the relevance of the proposed research project to the mission of St. Baldrick’s (see above); the rationale for the proposed research project, including the pediatric oncology research need of the institution in the applicant’s home country, and how the training received at the sponsoring institution will be integrated into this need; and a brief timeline of the training plan, progression of research, and applicable travel (gantt charts preferred).
- NIH-style biosketch (5 pages) with Other Support
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Resubmissions / prior reviews (if applicable)
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If a proposal for the same or similar project was submitted previously to this program, please include a copy of the complete written review from the sponsor. In addition, briefly describe plans to address what were considered to be the most significant of the weaknesses noted in the reviews. This discussion should be no longer than one page in length.
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Please note the 5:00 pm deadline. Applicants are encouraged to submit pre-application materials in advance of the deadline so that any errors or technical difficulties can be addressed prior to the close of the competition. Pre-applications that do not conform to the posted guidelines will be returned without review.
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Should more than one pre-application be received in a category by the internal deadline, an independent faculty committee will review all pre-application materials and recommend to the Vice Chancellor for Research the most competitive proposal(s) to represent UC San Diego, using the review criteria in the program solicitation. If selected, PIs should be prepared to complete a full application pursuant to the sponsor’s guidelines.
Questions? Contact Lynsey Fitzpatrick (email)
View competition
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