Current Funding Opportunities for Junior Faculty - 0 views
-
MiamiOH OARS on 28 Jan 14The Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Award for Research in Tumor Microenvironment was established to recognize the outstanding achievement of a junior faculty-level scientist working in the Tumor microenvironment field, and support his or her research that, if successful, will have potential to advance knowledge on the Tumor microenvironment. The goal of the grant program is to encourage junior faculty who are in the first five years of a faculty appointment (at the start of the grant term) to pursue novel Tumor microenvironment research. Travel support is included to help foster interactions and collaborations among cancer scientists studying various aspects of cancer biology and to disseminate scientific knowledge about Tumor microenvironment research within the field. Proposed projects may be basic, translational, clinical, or epidemiological in nature and must focus on the study of various aspects of the Tumor microenvironment; including, but not limited to, the role of stroma and extracellular matrix in Tumor development, angiogenesis, immunity and inflammation in the Tumor microenvironment, as well as approaches to therapeutically target the Tumor environment. The grant provides $100,000 over two years ($50,000 per year) for expenses related to the research project, which may include salary and benefits of the grant recipient, postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, graduate students, and/or research assistants, research/laboratory supplies, equipment, publication charges for manuscripts that pertain directly to the funded project, other research expenses, and for attendance at an AACR annual meeting, any AACR Tumor microenvironment-related conference, or other AACR meeting for the purpose of participating in scholarly exchange about the funded research.