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2025 LCRF RESEARCH GRANT ON PREVENTION AND EARLY DETECTION IN LUNG CANCER

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Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

LOCATION: USA

Given the significance and need for early detection of lung cancer and advancements in molecular screening, LCRF continues to offer a funding mechanism to support research projects that facilitate or advance the understanding and characterization of approaches for early detection of lung cancer. Work supported through this mechanism addresses important questions in non-small cell and small cell lung cancer.

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:

These awards provide a maximum of $150,000 in funding over a period of two years. 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.

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UICC’S TECHNICAL FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM

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Application Deadline: 12 August 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

UICC’s Technical Fellowships provide cancer professionals the chance to gain new knowledge, skills and techniques in cancer control through short learning visits of two weeks to two months’ duration. This specific fellowship opportunity was originally launched in 1976, and was called the International Cancer Research Technology Transfer awards (ICRETT), and has facilitated knowledge exchange for the last four decades.

ELIGIBILITY:

Public health professionals including epidemiologists, health educators, social workers, nutritionists, administrators and other specialised professionals working in the field of cancer control; cancer researchers performing translational, clinical and/or implementation research; clinicians, nurses and pathologists.

Applicants must hold a minimum of a Master’s degree, while qualified medical doctors may be considered in the absence of a higher degree (i.e an MD) if they hold or are within a year of holding a board certification (or equivalent) in a cancer-related specialty, and registered nurses who have an RN qualification are also eligible to apply.

An equivalent one-year’s training qualification in a specialty related to cancer post university degree can be accepted as an equivalent to a Master’s degree, for example training as a cancer registrar.

All candidates should have worked in the field of cancer for at least five years prior to applying.

Medical and PhD Students are not eligible to apply.

Please read the application guidelines to view the full list of eligibility criteria. (Available in June)

Candidates who are not working at UICC member organisations who are unable to identify a host institution are encouraged to contact the following UICC members that have expressed an interest in hosting UICC Fellows. Candidates can also identify potential host institutions by looking UICC Fellows awarded in previous years listed below.

National Cancer Centre Korea (NCCK) South Korea

King Hussein Cancer Center , Jordan

Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Canada

Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Brazil 

Icon Group Australia

HCG Hospitals India

A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, Brazil

University of Colorado Cancer Center, United States

BENEFIT:

Duration and Amount:

Two weeks – 2,200 USD*

Three weeks – 2,800 USD*

Four weeks – 3,400 USD*

Five weeks – 4,000 USD*

Six weeks – 4,600 USD*

Seven weeks – 5,200 USD*

Eight weeks – 5,800 USD*

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