Request for Applications: Prostate Cancer Research

Subject: A. David Mazzone Awards Program Funding Opportunities 2012

We are now accepting Applications for the second year of the A. David Mazzone Awards Program. The Program will fund several two-year projects for $100,000 to $1,000,000 per project. These non-Federal funding opportunities are provided by the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) in conjunction with the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF).

 

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The A. David Mazzone Research Awards Program will fund innovative cancer research to promote collaborations between DF/HCC researchers and researchers at other institutions at the national and international level. Research projects will address a range of needs in Prostate Cancer and Lupron-treatable diseases.

 

Funding Opportunities are being offered in the following nine Prostate Cancer research categories:

 

1. DF/HCC RFAs Open Nationally:

High Impact, High Impact Trials, Project Development, Disparities Research, Community Outreach Research, and Lupron-Treatable Disease and Conditions.

 

2. DF/HCC RFAs Intended for DF/HCC Member Institutions:

Career Development, Pre- and Post-Doctoral Training Program Awards

 

Application information for DF/HCC applications only:

One page letter of intent due by March 5, 2012.

Proposal submission deadline: 4:59 p.m. EST, Friday, April 6, 2012.

Program summary and Full RFAs Text: A David Mazzone Awards Program

Letter of Intent and Application submission Web site: https://mazzone.dfci.harvard.edu/

Please direct questions to: jhincapie@partners.org

 

3. Prostate Cancer Foundation RFAs:

A. David Mazzone-PCF Challenge Award

Submit proposal online to: http://www.pcfscience.org

The PCF website will start accepting applications after February 15, 2012.

Please direct questions to applications@pcf.org.

Deadline for applications: 11:59 PM Pacific Time, Friday, MARCH 16, 2012.