HERA Foundation Ovarian Cancer OSB1 Seed Grant

The HERA Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent ovarian cancer and improve prognosis through innovative scientific research and education. The HERA Foundation funds basic, translational and clinical research projects that address challenging problems posed by ovarian cancer. Projects include, but are not limited to, those that study disease etiology and pathogenesis, and those that explore novel approaches to early ovarian cancer detection and targeted therapy. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. and/or an M.D. degree, and be either a post-doctoral research fellow or clinical fellow. The application deadline is January 15, 2006. For complete information, eligibility criteria, and application instructions, click here: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.
org/research/ora/funding/hera.html

Fund for Medical Discovery

Deadline: January 15th, 2006
Amount: varies
Eligibility: Full time faculty
Additional Information for the January 15th deadline: For this cycle only, the FMD is being used as a mechanism to distribute a generous donation to the University for ovarian cancer projects. Therefore, in addition to FMD proposals, the FMD committee will be accepting applications for projects that focus on the early detection of ovarian cancer. The format of these applications should follow the standard FMD application format. For additional information, please visit: http://www.hopkinsmedicine. org/ Research/ora/Funding/FMD.html

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award Program 2006
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award Program's deadline for pre-proposals and letters of intent is January 31, 2006. For eligibility criteria and application instructions, click here: http://www.ddcf.org/doris_duke_files/
download_files/2006CSDA_RFPfinal.pdf

Please note: An internal review of applications by the Provost's Office is not required for this program. Applications should first be submitted as proposals for funding through the applicant's divisional research administration office before formal application to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. A copy of the finalized application should be sent to Ms. Margaret Hindman, Office of Foundations Relations, 607-S Wyman Park Building,
Homewood Campus.


The American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (IRG) Program 2006

RESPONSE NEEDED BY March 1, 2006. The American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (IRG) program provides "seed money" for the initiation of promising new projects by independent junior investigators so they may obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants. Grants are for one year and cannot exceed $20,000 (direct costs only); the grants are primarily for research supplies and technical services.

Each year there are more good applications than there are grant funds to support them. Consequently, preference must be given to applicants who have the greatest need for the funding. Senior investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and junior investigators who have competitive national research grants or who have received prior support from the IRG are not eligible. Applications will be accepted only from full-time, tenure-track JHU faculty members at the ranks of Instructor and Assistant Professor or equivalent who are within eight years of their first independent research or faculty appointment.

Relevance to the cancer problem is important and must be well documented. Within this research scope, a wide breadth of research approaches will be considered; these include basic laboratory studies and clinical research. Guidelines, details for proposal preparation & submission, and the required ACS IRG application form are attached. This information is also available at our website: http://jhuresearch.jhu.edu/funding.
htm#jhu-coordinated.

Applications must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 1, 2006. Submit an original and 11 copies, to:

Grace Bigelow
Research Projects Administration
(Homewood Campus)
Suite W400
3100 Wyman Park Drive

Awards will be announced in April with a July 1, 2006 start date. Please bring this opportunity to the attention of your eligible faculty.

Alex's Lemonade Stand Invites Applications for Childhood Cancer Research

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (http://www.alexslemonade.org/) invites grant applications for its 2006-07 grant cycle in the field of pediatric cancer research. Three categories of applications will be reviewed by the foundation's Medical Advisory Board:

1. Pediatric Oncology Translational Research Awards
2. Innovation Awards
3. Young Investigator Awards

The application deadline is February 1, 2006. For complete information on these opportunities, click here: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/5002323/alexslemonade

Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program

The Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) is offering Concept Awards to spark new ideas and foster the development of new, innovative, high-risk but potentially high-gain avenues of investigation. The deadline for submission will be February 7, 2006. All details for application are available in the Program Announcement located on the CDMRP electronic submission website: https://cdmrp.org/Program_Announcements
_ and_Forms/. The Electronic Submission Site is: https://cdmrp.org/. You can select the header tab "Program Announcements and Forms" and download the Program Announcement without signing in.

Applications Invited for Glenn/American Federation for Aging Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology Awards

Sponsored by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (http://www.glennfoundation.
org/), in collaboration with the American Federation for Aging Research (http://www.afar.
org/), the Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology Awards program is designed to provide timely support to a small number of pilot research programs that may be of relatively high risk but which offer significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging. Up to four grants of up to $125,000 each will be awarded. The application deadline is May 1, 2006. For more information, click here: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/5002311/afar/GlennBIG.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Call for Proposals for Research on Childhood Obesity

Healthy Eating Research is a new national program which will support research to identify, analyze and evaluate environmental and policy strategies that can promote healthy eating among children and prevent childhood obesity. Special emphasis will be given to research projects that will benefit children in the low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. This first round of funding focuses on school food policies and environments. The application deadline is March 7, 2006. Full details are at http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp-healthyEatingRsch.pdf

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