Title:
Planning Grant for Minority Institution/Cancer Center Collaboration (P20) (New RFA)

Contact:

Sanya A. Springfield, Ph.D.
Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch
Office of Centers, Training, and Resources
ODDES, NCI
Telephone: (301) 496-7344
E-mail: mb53o@nih.gov

Objective of Project:

The objective of this initiative is to help researchers and faculty in Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in collaboration with the researchers and faculty of NCI-designated Cancer Centers (or other institutions with highly organized, integrated research efforts focused on cancer) plan and initiate focused cancer research, cancer research training, and career development or cancer research education and outreach collaborations that will lead to the submission of specific grant applications traditionally supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) or other equivalent funding agencies. Planning grants must be focused on one or two targeted grant mechanisms that would achieve the following goal(s): (1) increases in the numbers of individual minority scientists engaged in cancer research through the submission of research grants that are collaborative efforts between individuals at MSIs and Cancer Centers (e.g., R03s, R01s, projects on P01s, projects on P50s, etc); (2) implementation of collaborative training and career development programs between MSIs and Cancer Centers designed to train minority scientists (e.g., T32s, R25Ts, K12s); and/or (3) implementation of collaborative education programs designed to provide minority students and trainees with research experiences that will serve to motivate them to pursue cancer research careers (e.g., R25E) or collaborative outreach programs designed to address the cancer health disparities in underserved racial and ethnic minorities and the socially-economically disadvantaged.

Description of Project:

Planning Grants for Minority Institution Cancer/Center Collaborations (P20) will support focused collaborative planning activities that are beneficial to the researchers, faculty, students, and communities of the MSI and Cancer Center. Applicants are expected to develop a formal planning process that would clearly lay out an initial planning stage (in which the participants establish appropriate means of communicating and identifying areas of potential collaborations), a priority setting stage (in which a specific area of collaboration and strategies for implementation are established by key individuals), and an initial implementation stage of a pilot project or pilot program with co-leaders, one from the MSI and one from the Cancer Center (in which preliminary data is acquired) for the purpose of enhancing the competitive potential of an NCI grant application.