Defense Health
Program
Department of Defense Breast Cancer
Research Program
Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2012
The Fiscal
Year 2012 (FY12) Defense Appropriations Act provides $120 million (M) to the
Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) to support
innovative, high-impact breast cancer research. The BCRP is
administered by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
through the Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
(CDMRP).
The BCRP is
providing the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time
to plan and develop applications. The FY12 BCRP program
announcement and general application instructions for the following award
mechanism are anticipated to be posted on Grants.gov in
October 2012. This pre-announcement should not be construed as an
obligation by the government.
Award
Mechanism:
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Eligibility:
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Principal Investigator: Doctoral graduates (Ph.D. or M.D.). Clinical investigators are eligible to apply. Must have no more than 2 years experience in the proposed research setting and no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience as of the application deadline.
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Mentor or formal co-mentor must have breast cancer research experience, including current funding and publications.
Key
Mechanism Elements:
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Supports the training of exceptionally talented recent doctoral or medical graduates who have demonstrated that they are the "best and brightest" of their peers.
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Individualized training program and mentorship should prepare the PI for an independent career at the forefront of breast cancer research.
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Proposed research should address a critical problem in breast cancer.
Funding:
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Maximum funding of $300,000 for direct costs ($100,000 per year, plus indirect costs).
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Period of performance not to exceed 3 years.
All applications
must conform to the final program announcement and application instructions that
will be available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website.
The application package containing the required forms will also be found
on Grants.gov. A listing of all USAMRMC funding opportunities can
be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA
Number 12.420.
A pre-application
is required and must be submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website (http://cdmrp.org) prior to the pre-application deadline.
Applications must be submitted through the federal government’s
single-entry portal, Grants.gov. Submission deadlines are not available
until the program announcement is released. Requests for email
notification of the program announcement release may be sent to help@cdmrp.org. For more information about the BCRP or
other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP
website (http://cdmrp.army.mil).
Point of
Contact:
CDMRP Public
Affairs
301-619-9783