Contact:

Sabra F. Woolley, Ph.D.
Health Promotion Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
DCCS, NCI
Telephone: (301) 435-4589
E-mail: sabra_woolley@nih.gov

Objective of Project:

To encourage researchers from many different disciplines within the behavioral and social sciences to begin or to continue research in the cancer control and population sciences arena. The two primary functions of this grant mechanism are to encourage the exploration of new models and new methodologies and to enable investigators to collect pilot data of a quantity and quality that can serve as the basis for a later R01.

Description of Project:

The Exploratory Grants for Behavioral Research will support research applications in areas across the cancer continuum, and may include any of the following: Tobacco Cessation, Basic Biobehavioral, Health Promotion, Health Communication and Informatics, Applied Screening or Cancer Survivorship. Applicants are encouraged to explore behavioral issues involved in the Health Disparities arena, within all of the areas listed above. Applicants do not need pilot data in the research application, but are expected to develop a rigorous research design and methodology. Given the constraints of time and money in this mechanism, it is not expected that applications will contain full intervention models, although pilot interventions may be within the scope of the design. Transdisciplinary collaboration is encouraged.