Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research
2018 Medical Research Awards
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Limited $225,000 funding opportunity for Stanford assistant professor with PI eligibility (UTL, MCL, and NTLR appointments) whose cutting-edge, creative scientific proposals have the greatest potential of broadening our understanding of, and treatment for, blood cancers. Applicant must have held his/her current position no longer than five years.
# applicants: 2:
1 applicant who is conducting mainstream or conventional research
1 applicant who is conducting complementary or integrative research*
*see the integrative section below
Timeline
Stanford Cancer Institute internal deadline June 8, 2018, 5 p.m. (see internal submission guidelines below)
Cancer Institute will notify the applicants selected: June 29, 2018
Institutional representative (RPM/RMG) deadline: August 10, 2018
Full proposal deadline: August 17, 2018
Guidelines
Download a PDF files of the application form/RFP 
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Amount of funding: the total award shall not exceed $225,000 ($75,000 per year over 3 years (contingent on the submission of acceptable annual progress reports). Overhead costs cannot exceed 10% (or $22,500) of the total grant award ($7,500 per year).
- Applicants must hold a junior faculty position at a 501(c)(3) teaching research institution and have an MD, PhD, or MD/PhD degree(s) from an accredited institution.
- Applicants must hold the designation of Assistant Professor* (Associate Professors are ineligible) and must have institutional support either as an independent junior faculty member or tenure track.
- *Stanford eligibility clarification: assistant professors with PI eligibility (UTL, MCL, NTLR faculty appts)
- Applicant must have held his/her current position no longer than five years
- Applicants must clearly state that he/she has independent research projects as well as independent resources and must have preliminary results and/or publications from their independent laboratory.
- Not eligible: Instructors, Clinical Instructors, and Academic staff-research are not eligible because Stanford does not consider those positions to be faculty-level or independent positions.
Purpose:
For over two decades, Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation has provided significant financial support to some incredibly promising physician scientists, who are applying novel and state-of-the-art techniques to address fundamental problems in the genesis and treatment of blood related cancers. Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation funds cutting-edge research in the fields of leukemia, lymphoma, and related cancers of the blood.
We support research that focuses on cancer prevention, detection, and treatments that are most likely to be translated into clinical trials within a 3 – 5 year period. The Foundation not only funds mainstream scientific research but also projects that combine integrative (complementary) therapies or botanical agents.
Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation remains committed to funding innovative, translational proposals and to supporting promising independent early-career investigators, rather than well-established, senior scientists.
- The Foundation seeks to support Integrative research projects that explore evidence-based complementary interventions, optimize the manner in which mainstream care is delivered and improve the lives of those living with cancer, specifically the hematologic malignancies.
- Such Integrative (complementary) therapies may include:
- Acupuncture; Integrative Mind-body interventions; Manipulative and body-based therapies; Meditation; Music therapy; Nutrition; Physical fitness; Use of biologically-based agents (but not in “conventional” ways); Yoga
- The Foundation seeks to support clinical trials and/or pre-clinical research which address reducing patients’ physical and emotional distress during or after cancer therapy. Examples include:
- Neurophysiologic, neuroendocrine, and biochemical pathways triggered by massage
therapy, including animal studies or instrument-based approaches such as imaging
techniques
- Mechanistic studies of herbs, nutritional supplements, or natural products to
enhance cognitive function or treat depression or anxiety
- Herb-drug interactions
- Basic biological mechanisms and processes that underlie acupuncture, meditation
or yoga including studies in man or animal models or those employing imaging - Research must be compelling with firmly grounded scientific rationale and high-quality relevant methodology.
- Proposals must reflect a solid grasp of the field and employ pragmatic research methodology anddesign.
- Proposals will be evaluated for creativity, originality and scientific rigor.
- Proposals based on promising preliminary data will be favored.
- Applicant’s prior experience and competencies will be assessed.
INTERNAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
By June 8, 2018, 5 p.m. please submit one PDF file [File name: Last name_Gabrielle_Angel_Fdn.pdf] of the following via email attachment to:
Denise Baughman
Project Manager
Stanford Cancer Institute
deniseb@stanford.edu.
Institutional representative (RPM/RMG or OSR): not applicable. You can submit your internal proposal directly to Denise.
1) Title Page:
Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research
2018 Medical Research Awards
Project title:
Category (select one): mainstream or conventional research or integrative research
PI name, academic title (type of appointment UTL, MCL, NTLR), Department, address, phone number, email address
2) One Page Proposal
(Format: single-spaced, Arial font size 11 or larger, 1 inch margins)
3) NIH Biosketch
Contact/Questions:
Denise Baughman
Project Manager
Administration Office
Stanford Cancer Institute
Lorry Lokey Stem Cell Building/SIM 1
265 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5456
t 650-724-9547
f 650-736-0607
deniseb@stanford.edu
Selection process
Your proposals will be reviewed by a Stanford Cancer Institute review committee.
