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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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NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, PHD STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY TEACHERS, RESEARCHERS AND ARTISTS

Application Deadline: 30 April at 16.00 CET

LOCATION: Slovakia

The Government of the Slovak Republic approved the establishment of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic for the support of mobility of students, PhD students, university teachers, researchers and artists in 2005. The National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic (NSP) is financed by the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic from the state budget of the Slovak Republic.

The National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic supports mobility of international students, PhD students, university teachers, researchers and artists for scholarship stays at higher education institutions and research organisations in Slovakia.

ELIGIBILITY:

Eligible applicants for a scholarship in the framework of the NSP:

students who:

are university students at universities outside Slovakia;

are students of the second level of higher education (master’s students), or are students who at the time of the application deadline have already completed at least 2.5 years of their university studies in the same/similar study programme;

will be on a study stay in Slovakia during their higher education outside Slovakia and who will be accepted by a public, private or state higher education institution in Slovakia for an academic mobility[1] to study in Slovakia.

All 3 conditions must be met. This category does not apply to doctoral (PhD) studies (or their equivalent).

Duration of a scholarship stay (students): 1 – 2 full semesters (i.e. 4 – 5 or 9 – 10 months) or 1 – 3 full trimesters, in case the academic year is divided into trimesters (i.e. 3 – 4 or 6 – 7 or 9 – 10 months).

PhD students whose higher education or scientific training takes place outside Slovakia and who are accepted by a public, private or state higher education institution or a research institution in Slovakia eligible to carry out a doctoral study programme[2] (e.g. the Slovak Academy of Sciences) for an academic mobility[1] to study/conduct research/artistic stay in Slovakia.

Duration of a scholarship stay (PhD students): 1 – 10 months.

international university teachers, researchers and artists who are invited to a teaching/research/artistic stay in Slovakia by an institution with a valid certificate of eligibility to carry out research and development, which is not a business company[3] and it has its seat in Slovakia.

Duration of a scholarship stay (university teachers, researchers or artists): 1 – 10 months. 

BENEFIT:

Category: Monthly
without PhD degree (or its equivalent) and at the same time less than 4 years of work experience as a university teacher, researcher, or artist 620 EUR
PhD student 1025,50 EUR
University teacher/researcher/artist: 
without PhD degree (or its equivalent) and, at the same time, less than 4 years of work experience as a university teacher, researcher, or artist 1025,50 EUR
with PhD degree (or its equivalent) and, at the same time, more than 10 years of work experience as a university teacher, researcher, or artist 1 370 EUR
with PhD degree (or its equivalent) and, at the same time, more than 10 years of work experience as a university teacher, researcher, or artist 1 470 EUR

In addition, students and PhD students [eligible applicants under the category A) and B)] can be awarded a travel allowance (travel grant, which is a separate component of the scholarship), if they apply for it along with their scholarship application. T

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