EVP Academic & Research Affairs

Limited Nominations and Other Grant Opportunities

Limited Nominations

Internal Deadline

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Funding Entity

V Foundation for Cancer Research 

Program Name

Grants in Translational Clinical Research

Purpose

We recently received an invitation from the V Foundation  for Cancer Research to submit one application to its Grants in Translational Clinical Research program. Awards total $600,000 over a three-year period and provide opportunities to "develop (currently unfunded) novel approaches to the prevention, detection and treatment of human cancer that requires collaboration of investigators from both the lab and clinic."

For more information please see:
http://www.jimmyv.org/research/the-funding-process/

Limitations

UTHealth is limited to one (1) application under the terms of this invitation; the selected project team "must have a minimum of two scientists from the same facility and…must possess basic and clinical research expertise."  

Next Steps

As such, Dr. Stancel is requesting that eligible investigators/teams submit a Letter of Interest directly to research@uthouston.edu no later than Wednesday, April 4, 2012. If more than one investigator/team wishes to apply, he will initiate a limited nomination process.  

Along with the letter of interest faculty members should submit a CV and a brief description of their proposed research (one page maximum) and an explicit statement (one page maximum) of how the research meets The V Foundation's criteria for this awar

Key dates are as follows:

  • Internal LOI - Due to research@uthouston.edu by Wednesday, April 4, 2012
  • Next steps - Internal selection process completed and approved applicant notified: Friday, April 13, 2012
  • Application Due – June 1, 2012