DoD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Level 3 (DOD)

• Published date: 16 January 2020
• Date: 16 January 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30871

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Grants alert (cont.)

Areas: DOI said program participation experiences may

include but are not limited to those in national wildlife

refuges, fish hatcheries and ecological services offices,

and under this program, with individuals and/or groups

of youth, young adults and veterans.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# F20AS00026

Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1

and 2 (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

DOD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and

2 announcement to support promising research that has

high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast

cancer.

Deadline: Pre-applications are due March 12, 2020;

proposals, March 26, 2020.

Funds: $42.5 million total for up to 29 awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said all FY2020 awards Levels 1 and 2

applications must address at least one of the following

overarching challenges unless adequate justification for

exception is provided: prevent breast cancer (primary

prevention); identify determinants of breast cancer

initiation, risk, or susceptibility; distinguish deadly from

non-deadly breast cancers; conquer the problems of

overdiagnosis and overtreatment; identify what drives

breast cancer growth; determine how to stop it; and

identify why some breast cancers become metastatic,

among other activities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-BCRP-BTA12

DoD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Level 3

(DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the DOD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Level 3

announcement to support promising research that has

high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast

cancer.

Deadline: Pre-applications are due March 13, 2020;

proposals, June 24, 2020.

Funds: $22.4 million total for up to four awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said all FY2020 awards Level 3 applications

must address at least one of the following overarching

challenges unless adequate justification for exception

is provided: prevent breast cancer (primary prevention);

identify determinants of breast cancer initiation, risk, or

susceptibility; distinguish deadly from non-deadly breast

cancers; conquer the problems of overdiagnosis and

overtreatment; identify what drives breast cancer growth;

determine how to stop it; and identify why some breast

cancers become metastatic, among other activities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-BCRP-BTA3

Era of Hope Scholar Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Era of Hope Scholar Award announcement to support

individuals early in their careers who have demonstrated

significant potential to effect meaningful change in

breast cancer.

Deadline: Pre-applications are due March 12, 2020;

proposals, March 26, 2020.

Funds: $9.6 million total for approximately two Era of

Hope Scholar Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said all FY2020 awards Levels 1 and 2

applications must address at least one of the following

overarching challenges unless adequate justification for

exception is provided: prevent breast cancer (primary

prevention); identify determinants of breast cancer

initiation, risk, or susceptibility; distinguish deadly from

non-deadly breast cancers; conquer the problems of

overdiagnosis and overtreatment; identify what drives

breast cancer growth; determine how to stop it; and

identify why some breast cancers become metastatic,

among other activities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-BCRP-EOHS

STOP School Violence Grant Program (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the FY2020 BJA’s

STOP School Violence Grant Program to improve school

security by providing students and teachers with the

tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and

help prevent acts of violence.

Deadline: March 3, 2020.

Funds: $30 million total for up to 35 awards of up to

$500,000.

Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations; and state, local,

special district and Native American tribal governments,

among others.

Areas: DOD said the program’s objective is to increase

school safety by implementing training and school

threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify

school violence risks among students; technological

solutions such as anonymous reporting technology that

can be implemented as a mobile phone-based app, a

hotline, or a website in the applicant’s geographic area

to enable students, teachers, faculty, and community

members to anonymously identify threats of school

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