American Heart Association Program Deadlines

There you will find detailed information on the following programs:

• Predoctoral Fellowship
• Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Beginning Grant-in-Aid
• Grant-in-Aid

In addition to affiliate awards, the Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award, supported in part by the Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, and the Scientist Development Grant are AHA awards available nationally. The application deadline is January 12, 2004.

Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research

This is the largest prize of its kind in the United States. The $500,000 prize is awarded to a physician, biomedical scientist, or group of physicians or scientists who have made extraordinary and sustained leadership contributions to improving healthcare and patient care; or who have successfully pursued innovative biomedical research with demonstrated translational benefits applied to improved patient care. The deadline for nominations for this prize is January 15, 2004. For more details, including application instructions, check the Albany Medical Center website at: http://www.amc.edu/prize_in_medicine.htm

Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program

Two new funding opportunities have been announced: 1) Idea Development Awards, and 2) New Investigator Research Awards. Program Announcements can be downloaded from http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/04ocrp.htm.

The submission deadline for both of these announcements is Tuesday, February 3 2004, 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time.

Electronic submission of proposals must be accomplished via the CDMRP eReceipt Online Proposal Submission site, and can be accessed at https://cdmrp.org/proposals.

Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities

The Fiscal Year 2004 (FY04) Defense Appropriations Act provides $85 million to the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) to support innovative research directed toward eliminating prostate cancer. This program is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

FY04 PCRP Program Announcements for proposals in the following mechanisms are expected to be released late November 2003:

• Idea Development Awards
• New Investigator Awards
• Exploration - Resource Development Awards
• Exploration - Hypothesis Development Awards
• Postdoctoral Traineeship Awards
• Physician Research Training Awards
• Health Disparity Training - Prostate Scholar Awards
• Health Disparity Research - Prostate Scholar Awards
• HBCU Collaborative Partnership Awards

Detailed descriptions of each of these mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements and deadlines will be available in the relevant FY04 PCRP Program Announcement. Each Program Announcement can be downloaded from the CDMRP website http://cdmrp.army.mil upon its release.

Two Additional FY04 PCRP Program Announcements for proposals are currently in development and expected to be released in December 2003:

• Clinical Trial Development Awards
• HBCU Summer Undergraduate Collaborative Training Awards

Please note that the FY04 Program Announcements are being released prior to actual receipt of funding at this Command for these projects. No legal liability on the part of the Government for payment can arise until such funds are made available.

Requests for e-mail notification when Program Announcements are released may be sent to prequest@constellagroup.com. For more information about the PCRP, PCRP awardees, previous PCRP Program Announcements, and other CDMRP-sponsored programs and events, please visit the CDMRP website http://cdmrp.army.mil.

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