Rare Cancers, Resource and Community Development Award (DOD)

• Date: 03 September 2020
• Published date: 03 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31281

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Grants alert (cont.)

enhancement and/or establishment of wetland and

associated upland habitats to benet migratory birds.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# F21AS00157

Rare Cancers, Concept Award (DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Rare Cancers, Concept Award announcement to support

highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking

novel concepts in rare cancers.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Nov. 12, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 30, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $1.76 million for approximately 11

Concept Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said this award mechanism supports

high-risk studies that have the potential to reveal entirely

new avenues for investigation. Applicants must address

at least one of the four focus areas: (1) biology and

etiology: identify disease-dening molecular pathways,

cell context and microenvironment; (2) research model:

develop and validate rare tumor-specic models

that can support clinical trial readiness; (3) platform

development: development of platforms (such as tumor

tissue repository with clinical annotation, centralized

databanks, patient registry with common data structure,

research model and Omics database, and longitudinal

studies of natural history and treatment response) for

multiple rare cancers to allow sharing of data, bio-

specimens and resources; and (4) therapy: identify novel

therapeutic strategies, including drug repurposing.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-RCRP-CA

Rare Cancers, Resource and Community

Development Award (DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Rare Cancers, Resource and Community Development

Award (RCDA) announcement to support the

development of resources to advance the eld of rare

cancers research and ultimately improve outcomes for

individuals with rare cancers.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Nov. 12, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 30, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $1.92 million for approximately

two RCDA applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said the intent of this announcement

is to develop platforms that can share resources

and knowledge pertaining to available models,

molecular pathways and therapeutic approaches to

facilitate collaboration and information sharing among

stakeholders such as researchers, patients, caregivers,

clinicians and other members of the rare cancers

community. Examples of platforms include but are

not limited to the following: building and sharing rare

tumor biospecimen repository with clinical annotation;

databases/banks for centralizing and sharing data for

patient registries that can be accessed globally; and

centralizing and sharing research models and molecular

data related to genomics, transcriptomics, immune

proling, proteomics, metabolomics, methylomics and

bioinformatics; among many others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-RCRP-RCDA

Rare Cancers, Idea Development Award (DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Rare Cancers, Idea Development Award announcement

to promote new ideas that are still in the early stages of

development and have the potential to yield impactful

data and new avenues of investigation.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Nov. 12, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 30, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $2.8 million for approximately ve

Idea Development Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said key elements of the Idea Development

Award are: innovation: research deemed innovative may

introduce a new paradigm, challenge current paradigms,

look at existing problems from new perspectives or

exhibit other uniquely creative qualities; and impact:

research that has high potential impact may lead to

major advancements and greatly improve outcomes for

people with rare cancers.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-RCRP-IDA

Kidney Cancer, Clinical Research Nurse

Development Award (DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Kidney Cancer, Clinical Research Nurse (CRN)

Development Award announcement to support research

that allows the preparation of nurses for the kidney

cancer CRN specialization through a mentored research

training approach.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Oct. 13, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 3, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $960,000 for approximately two

Clinical Research Nurse Development Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said funding supports research that

is supported by mentoring partnerships between

a clinician (i.e., physician, physician scientist or

equivalent) and a CRN coordinator (or equivalent) to

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