The Cancer Education and Career Development Program (R25T) supports the development and implementation of curriculum-dependent programs to train predoctoral and postdoctoral candidates in cancer research settings that are highly inter-disciplinary and collaborative. This program is particularly applicable to cancer prevention and control, epidemiology, nutrition, and the behavioral and population sciences, but should also be considered by other interdisciplinary areas of research such as imaging and molecular diagnosis that will require sustained leadership, interdisciplinary research environments, and more than one mentor per program participant to achieve their education and research career development objectives.

The Principal Investigator must be an established investigator in a field relevant to the objectives and purpose of the Program and able to provide both administrative and scientific leadership. Candidates may be predoctoral or postdoctorals. They usually must be (see exception below) citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States, or must have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551, or other legal verification of such status), but, under exceptional circumstances, the R25T does allow for the training of foreign nationals. These require NCI approval of individuals on a case-by-case basis and would always depend upon the special international, collaborative nature of the research areas that the training and Career Development Program emphasizes.

The R25T grant mechanism provides up to five years of support and is renewable. These grants support salary (up to $20,000 per year for predoctorals and $75,000 per year for postdoctorals), research development support (up to $20,000 for predoctorals and up to $30,000 per year for postdoctorals), advertising and recruitment costs, ancillary personnel costs, and facilities and administrative costs (formerly called indirect costs).

Program Announcement

PAR-06-511 CANCER EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (R25T)

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