2020 V Scholar Award

Note: FHCRC are coordinating this limited submission and ask that UW applicants submit pre-proposals to research@uw.edu by 2/20/20. The UW review committee will then review, rank, and send on to FHCRC.

LIMITED APPLICANT AWARD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH 2020 V SCHOLAR AWARD

Number of applications Fred Hutch/UW Cancer Consortium may submit: two nominees (to apply for this call if at least one of the two nominee applicants identifies as someone from an underrepresented in science minority ethnic group). While not required, the V Foundation encourages applications from young investigators from a minority ethnic group who is underrepresented in science. For the purposes of this application: African American or of African descent, Hispanic American (non-European) or Native American and/or an Alaskan Native would be included in minority groups.

Synopsis:

This grant supports young tenure-track faculty to begin their cancer research career in projects that are either laboratory-based fundamental and translational research.

Eligibility: 

• Be approved by and nominated by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Director in the formal application.
• Have at least 2 years post-doctoral (MD or PhD) fellowship training.
• For MDs, a minimum of 1 year is acceptable if only o1 year is required for the specialty.
• Be either US citizens, or be a permanent legal resident in the US.
• By the Due Date of the Application, applicants meet the following criteria:
•  Hold a tenure-track faculty position as an assistant professor at their cancer research institution. Non-promotable, adjunct, affiliated, temporary, part-time or acting faculty positions are not eligible for this grant competition.
•  Have been appointed to their first full-time assistant professor position within the last 5 years, and have not yet been promoted to Associate Professor.
• Clinical scientists may be eligible if the research institution can demonstrate that it will fully support the research applicant (e.g., dedicated lab space, start-up funds, dedicated research time).

• Applicant can NOT already hold an RO1 or RO1-equivalent grants. As of the Due Date of the Application, applicants who have been awarded RO1s or RO1 equivalent grants (Project leader on an NIH multi-investigator grant, ACS) as principal investigators or as co-leader at the time of application submission are not eligible for consideration as a V Scholar. In addition, applicants cannot be a co-leader on a SPORE project or (co)PI of the following NIH grant mechanisms: U01, DP1, DP2, R37, R23. In addition, principal investigators for research project grants (RPGs), analogous to NIH/NCI R01 awards, would be ineligible. The V Scholar award is meant to support research to leverage these larger awards so the nominee may not already have received these awards.

Funding:

• $200,000 total paid in two annual installments of $100,000/year.
• This grant has a zero indirect cost policy; however is listed on Exhibilt A. 

Additional Information:

• The V Foundation for Cancer Research webpage.
• Questions from interested individuals may be directed to fundinginfo@fredhutch.org.

Application Instructions

Eligible investigators must submit the following pre-proposal materials as a single PDF with the following naming convention: Candidate’s Last  Name_2020_VFoundation_ScholarGrant.pdf:

• 1-2 pages of proposed research
• Current curriculum vitae or biosketch
• Optional cover letter with valuable information for the panel

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday February 27, 2020.