The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center has announced the availability of seed grant funds from its American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant.
The ACS IRG is a block grant that allows the Buffett Cancer Center to award funding to early-career independent investigators in all areas of cancer research.
One-year seed grants of up to $50,000 are available. This seed grant program is intended to support junior faculty in initiating cancer research projects, so they can generate preliminary results that will allow them to compete successfully for national funding. Eligible investigators include those within six years of their first independent faculty appointment who do not currently hold research grant support from national funding agencies.
"I strongly encourage junior faculty with a focus in cancer research to submit a proposal for this seed grant funding," said Kenneth Cowan, MD, PhD, director and physician-in-chief of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. "The Buffett Cancer Center is fortunate to partner with the American Cancer Society on this initiative, which provides junior faculty the opportunity to bring their unique ideas to the laboratory."
Proposals must be prepared using an application template provided and emailed as a single, complete PDF to buffettcancercenter@unmc.edu. The deadline to submit applications is 11:59 pm CT on Monday, Sept. 27. See complete proposal eligibility requirements, the application template and guidelines.