CDMRP – Prostate Cancer Research Program: Physician Research Training Award, Investigator-Initiated Award

- Physician Research Training Award: - encourages submissions in the below focus areas from and established physician with clinical duties who at application deadline is either in the last year of an accredited graduate medical education program or within 3 years of having initiated an appointment as an Instructor, Asst Professor, or equivalent. Funds $520,000 for a four-year project). http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276725 

- Postdoctoral Training Award: encourages submissions in the below focus areas from a PI who has successfully defended a doctoral thesis or possesses a MD degree by 31.3.16, be involved in an accredited training/residency program, and have 3 years or less of postdoctoral research experience by 31.3.16. Funds $125,000 for 2-year project). http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276741 

Focus areas in:

• Biomarker Development: Validation and qualification of biomarkers for early detection of clinically relevant disease or for prognosis or prediction and assessment of response to therapies.
• Genetics: Understanding host or tumor genetics and epigenetics responsible for susceptibility, disease progression, and treatment outcomes for clinically relevant prostate cancer.
• Imaging: Development of new anatomic, functional, and molecular imaging approaches for the detection and management of clinically relevant prostate cancer.
• Mechanisms of Resistance and Response: Understanding primary and acquired resistance as well as exceptional response to therapy.
• Survivorship and Palliative Care: Improving the quality of life and well-being of prostate cancer patients and their families.
• Therapy: Identification of targets and pathways, and optimization (including sequencing and combination therapies) of therapeutic modalities, including metastatic prostate cancer.
• Tumor and Microenvironment Biology: Understanding the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms contributing to tumor development and the progression of prostate cancer.

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