Sponsor

US Department of Defense (DoD)

Description

Rare Cancers Press Release [1]

Applications for the Concept Award submitted to the FY20 RCRP must address one or more of the following Focus Areas: 

• Biology and Etiology: Identify disease-defining molecular pathways, cell context, and microenvironment.
• Research Model: Develop and validate rare tumor-specific models that can support clinical trial readiness.
• Platform Development: Development of platforms (such as, tumor tissue repository with clinical annotation; centralized databanks; patient registry with common data structure; research model and Omics database; longitudinal studies of natural history and treatment response), for multiple rare cancers, to allow sharing data, bio-specimens and resources.
• Therapy: Identify novel therapeutic strategies, including drug repurposing. 

Applications for the Idea Development Award submitted to the FY20 RCRP must address one or more of the following Focus Areas: 

• Biology and Etiology: Identify disease-defining molecular pathways, cell context, and microenvironment.
• Research Model: Develop and validate rare tumor-specific models that can support clinical trial readiness.
• Therapy: Identify novel therapeutic strategies, including drug repurposing. 

Applications for the Resource and Community Development Award submitted to the FY20 RCRP must address the Focus Areas below: 

• Platform Development: Development of platforms (such as, tumor tissue repository with clinical annotation; centralized databanks; patient registry with common data structure; research model and Omics database; longitudinal studies of natural history and treatment response), for multiple rare cancers, to allow sharing data, bio-specimens and resources.

Funding Availability

Concept Award

• Maximum funding of $100,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs).
• Maximum period of performance is one year.

Idea Development Award

• Maximum funding of $350,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs).
• Maximum period of performance is three years.

Resource and Community Development Award

• Maximum funding of $600,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs). 
• Maximum period of performance is three years.

Special Notes

Please note that research activities carried out in the context of COVID-19 need to adhere to the University of Guelph COVID-19 research principles, policies, guidelines and processes as they may be updated from time to time and communicated on the Office of Research web-page [2].

How to Apply

If you are interested in applying to this program or any DoD programs, please contact Angela Vuk (avuk@uoguelph.ca [3]) as soon as possible so we can work with you on your application and confirm access to Grants.gov [4] for submitting applications.

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal [5] (eBRAP) prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the final Funding Opportunities/Program Announcements and General Application Instructions which can be found on Grants.gov [4].