Cancer Research Education Grants Program (R25)

The Cancer Research Education Grants Program (CREGP) (R25) provides support for educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. Applications should propose innovative, state-of-the-art programs that address the cause, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, or the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients.

There are three CREGP Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs):

1. CREGP–Curriculum or Methods Development (PAR-18-476): supports curriculum or methods development activities that have a high potential to improve biomedical, behavioral or clinical cancer research education, or that involve the development of novel instructional approaches or computer-based tools for cancer research education.  The curriculum or methods developed should be readily adaptable by the cancer research education community. 

   Note that this FOA provides support to develop, test, and prepare the curriculum or methods developed for dissemination to the cancer research education community. It does not provide support for the actual offering of the developed curriculum or methods to identifiable participants at the applicant institution or elsewhere, which may be able to be supported through the companion FOA (below), CREGP – Courses for Skills Development.

2. CREGP–Courses for Skills Development (PAR-18-477): proposed courses should provide innovative, state-of-the-art, evidence-based cancer education that is derived from biomedical, behavioral and clinical cancer research findings, using a traditional in-person approach, online activities, or a hybrid of both approaches.  All instructional activities must be completed within a 12-month period, with the total course duration not to exceed 15 weeks.
   
   The course must be offered during each year that R25 support is requested. If the time required to develop the course would preclude this during the first year of support, applicants should consider applying for the companion FOA (above), CREGP – Curriculum or Methods Development.
    
3. CREGP–Research Experiences (PAR-18-478): proposed research experiences should involve an innovative approach to provide hands-on exposure to cancer research in a laboratory or a field setting for a full-time (40 hours per week) period of 10 to 15 weeks to stimulate the interest and advance the knowledge base of participants to consider further education and training for future careers as cancer researchers.  The proposed programs should provide research experiences and related training that are not available through formal NIH training mechanisms.

   R25 programs that propose at least 10 weeks, but fewer than 15 weeks, of full-time research experiences may request continued part-time support for the participants to work on their research projects, up to the equivalent of 15 weeks of full-time participation, as long as the entire research experience is completed within a 12-month period. 

   All potential applicants are strongly encouraged to read the FOAs cited above to obtain more complete information about the types of projects that each FOA supports and also to contact the program staff to discuss possible applications and resolve any questions about the FOAs.