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Apply for a Young Investigator Award

The Young Investigator Award is funded through the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Institutional Research Grant (IRG) sponsored by the American Cancer Society (ACS).

2008 Recompete

Based on the outcome of our prior American Cancer Society (ACS) Young Investigator Award, we are offering an additional opportunity to submit applications for funding consideration for the ACS Institutional Research Grant (IRG). The due date is midnight, September 2, 2008 to Ellen McLaughlin.

Download the application for 2008 or view the full award announcement.

  1. The purpose of the IRG is to provide awards for the initiation of promising new projects by junior faculty members (or their equivalent), so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants. 
  2. The grant will provide $20,000 per year for each of four junior faculty members.  We awarded one award to Rebecca Riggins in July, thus there are three awards available for funding. We hope that one of these awards will be a Special Interest Award in the areas of “psychosocial and behavioral aspects of cancer,”  “access to care of under-served minorities,” “health policy or health services research”, and/or “childhood cancer.” 
  3. Each of the awards will be for one (1) year only and is not renewable.  Priority will be given to projects that have a likelihood of future funding.

Eligibility & Requirements

  • Awards are for junior faculty only (research instructor and above) who are eligible to apply for independent national competitive research grants (e.g., NIH RO1 or an ACS project grant), but who do not currently hold such a grant. The investigator must have an independent research program or expect to have such in the next 1-2 years. The best evidence of this will be a history of submitting prior grants.

  • Applicants should be within six (6) years of their first independent research or faculty appointment.

  • Support of senior investigators, postdoctoral fellows, or junior investigators who have received prior support from an IRG is not permitted.

  • The proposed research project must be cancer-related.

  • Applicants must be, at the time of the application, citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States or its possessions or territories, or must have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence at the time of application.  Permanent residents must submit, with the application, notarized evidence indicating that the candidate is in possession of an Alien Registration Receipt Card or has been approved for the issuance of such card as evidenced by an official passport stamp of the USIM and that the form number of the card is I-551. 

  • Application must include abstract, background, specific aims, methods, including statistical analysis, significance, collaboration, mentor support, career development plan, and how this project will lead to future funding.

Submissions must be sent to Ellen McLaughlin. Questions and requests for additional information should be directed to Brad Morse or Ellen McLaughlin.

Note that all applications must be submitted electronically as a single, low-resolution PDF file. Incomplete and non-electronic applications will be returned without scientific review. The Local Institutional Research Grant Committee will award grants, following peer review.

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