Defense Health Program Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2013
The Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12) Defense Appropriations Act provides $120 million (M) to the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) to support innovative, high-impact breast cancer research. The BCRP is administered by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) through the Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
Please inform researchers interested in breast cancer funding opportunities that the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) has released the following Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) funding mechanism for Fiscal Year 2012. Please consider sending this News Release on to your bio-medical, life science investigators focused on breast cancer research
http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/pa/12bcrppostdoc2_pa.pdf
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award – Pre-application deadline is December 4, 2012
Eligibility - Principal Investigator: Doctoral graduates (Ph.D. or M.D.).
Clinical investigators are eligible to apply. Must have no more than 2 years experience in the proposed research setting and no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience as of the application deadline
Mentor or formal co-mentor must have breast cancer research experience, including current funding and publications.
Key Mechanism Elements:
• Supports the training of exceptionally talented recent doctoral or medical graduates who have demonstrated that they are the “best and brightest” of their peers.
• Individualized training program and mentorship should prepare the PI for an independent career at the forefront of breast cancer research.
• Proposed research should address a critical problem in breast cancer
Maximum funding of $300,000 for direct costs ($100,000 per year, plus indirect costs).
Period of performance not to exceed 3 years.
All applications must conform to the final program announcement and application instructions that are available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website. The application package containing the required forms will also be found on Grants.gov. A listing of all USAMRMC funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.
A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website (http://cdmrp.org) prior to the pre-application deadline of December 4, 2012. Applications must be submitted through the federal government’s single-entry portal, Grants.gov. Requests for email notification of the program announcement release may be sent to help@cdmrp.org. For more information about the BCRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil).
Point of Contact:
CDMRP Helpdesk
301-682-5507
help@cdmrp.org
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