Planning Grant

Cancer Research Collaboration of Excellence Planning Grants

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to establish and fund the Cancer Research Collaboration of Excellence (CRCE) program. CRCEs are intended to support integrated, multi-project research programs with a well-defined, central research focus on cancer. Our vision of a CRCE is a program consisting of interrelated cancer research projects, each capable of standing on its own scientific merit but complementing the other projects in the CRCE. The overall goal of the program is for each CRCE to develop into a PO1-type extramural grant with a focus on basic cancer research with suggested areas of fundamental biology of specific cancer types, cancer diagnosis, pre-clinical therapy development and a vision for application of these results.

JCRC faculty members are invited to submit applications for six-month planning grants. These one-time, six-month awards will support the development of consortia that can collaborate and synergize on a cancer research focus area.