Office of Research

Translational Research Grant and Emerging Investigator Fellowship

Limited Submissions

Translational Research Grant

This type of grant primarily funds new research protocols and therapies that hold promise for improved outcomes and accelerates cures from the laboratory bench to the bedside of children and teens with high-risk cancers. This Grant is given to programs that involve open, multi-institutional cancer clinical trials or consortia, and implement new approaches to therapy. This award may provide up to $100,000 per year for multiple years.

 

Emerging Investigator Fellowship Grant

These grants are designed to support Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Clinical Investigator training for emerging pediatric cancer researchers to pursue exciting research ideas. Applicants must have completed two years of their fellowship, or not more than two years as a junior faculty instructor or assistant professor at the start of the award period. These grants encourage and cultivate the best and brightest researchers of the future. Awards will provide up to a maximum of $50,000 per year and can be renewed annually.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach, and to which grant you are applying
  2. Biosketch or CV of the PI

 

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, February 4, 2021. A required LOI is due to the sponsor 3/1/21.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2021

Deadlines
02/04/2021 UW Internal Deadline Closed
02/18/2021 OSP Deadline
03/01/2021 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

Funding amount

$0 ($200,000 for the Translational Research Grant, $50,000 for the Emerging Investigator Fellowship)

Maximum Number of Applications

2 (1 per opportunity)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.