2025 LCRF RESEARCH GRANTS ON OVERCOMING RESISTANCE IN LUNG CANCER

Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

LOCATION: USA

In 2025, in partnership with leading patient advocacy organizations, this grant mechanism will focus on furthering the understanding of the development, prevention, and therapy of resistance by supporting projects that seek to identify, characterize, treat or prevent resistance to lung cancer therapies. Work supported through this mechanism will address important mechanistic questions and developmental therapeutics across histological subtypes of lung cancer (including lung adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and small cell lung cancer) and across the care continuum including newly designed targeted therapies and immunotherapies.

ELIGIBILITY:

Investigators must be affiliated with a non-profit academic or research institution and must be post-doctoral researchers, clinical fellows, or early-career and mid-career investigators with less than ten years’ experience since their initial faculty appointment.

Applicants from US-based and international institutions are eligible to apply and may hold any residency/citizenship status.

Applicants are prohibited from applying if they have received funding from the LCRF within the last 4 years.

Applicants are prohibited from applying in more than one of LCRF’s funding tracks in the same cycle.

Senior investigators with more than ten years’ experience since faculty appointment are generally not eligible for funding and are encouraged to mentor a junior team member through the application process. However, exceptions will be made for investigators with more than ten years’ experience in other disease areas or topics.

Ineligible investigators with these or other special circumstances may request review by contacting the LCRF grants office (see Inquiries section below) before submitting an application and at least a week before submission deadline.

Ineligible applications and new requests under special circumstances will not be considered after submission deadline

BENEFIT:

The maximum award amount is $150,000 for a period of two years (disbursed at $75,000 per year). Additional budget requirements and considerations include the following:

Funding from this award may not be used to support institutional indirect / facilities and administrative costs.

The LCRF grant must be the primary source of support for the project. Additional secondary funding (e.g. for core services support) is permitted.

There is no limit on the amount of salary support that may be requested. However, appropriate justification for all budget items is required. Any salary requests in excess of 20% of the total budget must be explicitly justified. Queries related to justification should be sent to LCRF at least a week before submission deadline.

Any equipment costs must be limited and directly applicable to the research project (i.e. large, general equipment costs are not permitted).

Direct patient care costs reimbursable by other sources may not be included.

Travel and publication costs are permitted.

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UNIVERSITY OF SURREY GREAT SCHOLARSHIPS – NIGERIA 2025 ENTRY

Application Deadline: 30 May 2025

LOCATION: United Kingdom

In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the University of Surrey is offering one £10,000 postgraduate scholarship to a student from Nigeria. Visit the Nigeria site for more information about our entry requirements and international contacts.

ELIGIBILITY:

In order to be eligible, applicants must:

Be a citizen and resident of Nigeria.

Hold an unconditional offer for a full-time postgraduate course starting in September 2025

Be active in the field with work experience or with a proven interest in the proposed subject area

Be willing to embody the UK Higher Education experience, by attending lectures and tutorials and engaging with extra-curricular activities, and act as an ambassador for UK Higher Education, by promoting the value of studying at a UK HEI

Represent the high standards of the GREAT brand by becoming an advocate for scholarships

Be willing to attend a networking event of all UK-based GREAT scholars, to discuss experiences and capture perceptions of studying in the UK

Be willing to demonstrate future contribution to capacity-building and socio-economic advancement through the benefits achieved after graduating from UK higher education

Be willing to maintain contact with the British Council and act as an ambassador for the GREAT scholarships, by sharing experiences of studying in the UK with future GREAT candidates and scholars.

Applicants for the GREAT Scholarship must have first made an application and received an offer (conditional or unconditional) for a full-time postgraduate taught programme (starting in September 2025) at the University of Surrey and have an application ID number (URN). Applicants must complete the scholarship application form

BENEFIT:

One £10,000 postgraduate scholarship to a successful applicant from Nigeria.

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