The following funding news and opportunities were collected recently by Cancer Center Pre-Award Services and published in Cancer Center Update, a weekly e-newsletter for members and staff.

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July 31, 2007

Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males
(PA-07-422) — R01
(PA-07-421) — R21
National Cancer Institute (among others)
Application Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement
This initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) solicit applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.

July 24, 2007

U.S.-India Bilateral Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) on the Prevention of HIV/AIDS (R21)
(RFA-AI-07-031)
National Cancer Institute (among others)
Application Submission/Receipt Date: October 18, 2007
Funding: Up to $275K in direct cost over 2 years (no one year to exceed $200K)
The U.S.-India Bilateral CRP Program is designed to develop collaborations between scientists and institutions in the U.S. and India to conduct high quality HIV/AIDS prevention research of mutual interest and benefit to both countries while developing the basis for future institutional and individual scientific collaborations. This FOA will utilize the research capacity of the institutions and scientists in both countries to advance the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and develop preliminary data that may support a research proposal to test an HIV/AIDS prevention program with public health significance.

Mechanisms of Immune Modulation (R01)
(RFA-AT-07-004)—R01
(RFA-AT-07-005)—R21
National Cancer Institute (among others)
Application Receipt Date: November 14, 2007
Funding: $200K-400K/yr (DC) for up to 4 years
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages mechanistic studies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities believed to modulate immune function. It is not intended to support efficacy studies.

Nutrition and Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes (R01)
(PA-07-403)—R01
(PA-07-404)—R03
(PA-07-405)—R21
National Cancer Institute (among others)
Application Receipt Date: Multiple dates, see announcements.
Funding: Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary.
The goal of this program announcement is to stimulate a broad range of research on the role of nutrition in the development, prevention, and treatment of a variety of alcohol-related health outcomes including alcohol dependence and psychiatric co-morbidities, chronic and acute diseases, and organ function and damage. Study designs may include biomedical research, epidemiologic approaches, and intervention studies.

July 17, 2007

Research Professorships
American Cancer Society
Up to $400,000 ($80K/yr. direct costs over 5 years)
Anticipated deadline: April 1, 2008
The American Cancer Society awards Research Professorships to outstanding mid-career investigators who are making groundbreaking contributions to basic cancer research. The grants provide unique research opportunities to foster maximal productivity in cancer research. These grants provide flexible funding for established investigators in mid-career who have made seminal contributions that have changed the direction of cancer research.

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Research Fellowships
1-3 year grants of $30,000-$40,000/yr.
Request for Applications opening in Fall 2007
AACR Research Fellowships foster basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological research by scientists at the beginning of their careers in the cancer field. They are open to Postdoctoral Fellows and Clinical Research Fellows at an academic facility, teaching hospital, or research institution who will be in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year of their postdoctoral training at the start of the fellowship term.

AACR Career Development Awards
2 year grants of $50,000/yr.
Request for Applications opening in Fall 2007
AACR Career Development Awards are open to junior faculty at an academic or medical institution who completed postdoctoral studies or clinical fellowships no more than three years prior to the start of the grant term.

July 10, 2007

Cancer Center Update was not published due to July 4 holiday.

July 3, 2007

Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children
(PA-07-391)—R21
(PA-07-392)—R01
National Cancer Institute (among others)
Application Submission/Receipt Date(s):  Standard dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm

This initiative is designed to stimulate research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. For purposes of this initiative, health disparities apply to children who have limited access to resources and privileges that impact their health. As such, this initiative includes a focus on ethnic and racial minority children and populations of underserved children to include: children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children, children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families, and language minority children. Children are individuals 0-21 years of age. The primary purpose of this initiative, therefore, is to solicit intervention studies targeting one of the aforementioned groups.