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Career Development Award

The Career Development Award (CDA) provides research funding to clinical investigators, who have received their initial faculty appointment, as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program. This research must have a patient-oriented focus, including a clinical research study and/or translational research involving human subjects. Proposals with a predominant focus on in vitro or animal studies (even if clinically relevant) are not allowed.
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Key Details

Deadline Invalid Date
Award Amount $200 000
Duration 3
Host Country United States
Years Since PhD NA
Mobility Rule No

Career Levels

MD

Funding Purpose

Fellowship, scholarship or trainingResearch

Subjects / Fields

Medicine and Health Sciences

Additional Information

Comments The Career Development Award (CDA) provides research funding to clinical investigators, who have received their initial faculty appointment, as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program. This research must have a patient-oriented focus, including a clinical research study and/or translational research involving human subjects. Proposals with a predominant focus on in vitro or animal studies (even if clinically relevant) are not allowed. Eligibility: Be an ASCO member; Must be a physician (MD, DO of international equivalent) with a valid medical license; be in the first to third year of a full-time primary faculty appointment in a clinical department at an academic medical institution at the time of grant submission; applicants holding Instructor/Lecturer appointments are eligible to apply with institutional support; Should not have any current career development awards (i.e. K23, K08, or any other type of career development award) and have not been a Principal Investigator on any large project grants (i.e. R01 or international equivalent, or private foundation grants); $200,000 over three years to pay for personnel and/or research expenses, and travel to attend the CCF Grants and Awards Ceremony at the ASCO Annual Meeting.

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Last Updated May 2020
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