Opportunity
Career Development Award
Award Info:
The CDA is a three-year grant totaling $200,000 that supports personnel and/or research expenses, and travel to attend the Conquer Cancer Grants and Awards Ceremony at the ASCO Annual Meeting.
Eligibility: Be an ASCO member; Must be a physician (MD, DO of international equivalent) with a valid medical license; be in the first to third year of a full-time primary faculty appointment in a clinical department at an academic medical institution at the time of grant submission; applicants holding Instructor/Lecturer appointments are eligible to apply with institutional support; Should not have any current career development awards (i.e. K23, K08, or any other type of career development award) and have not been a Principal Investigator on any large project grants (i.e. R01 or international equivalent, or private foundation grants).
Description:
The Career Development Award (CDA) provides research funding to clinical investigators, who have received their initial faculty appointment, as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program. This is a mentored award and the research project is conducted under the guidance of a scientific mentor. The research must have a patient-oriented focus, including a clinical research study and/or translational research involving human subjects. Proposals with a predominant focus on in vitro or animal studies (even if clinically relevant) are not allowed. Applications in all areas of cancer research are accepted from U.S. and international applicants.