American Association for Cancer Research | Ocular Melanoma Foundation Research Fellowship
Event details
| Date | 08.04.2025 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The AACR-Ocular Melanoma Foundation Research Fellowship represents a joint effort to encourage and support a postdoctoral or clinical research fellow to conduct ocular/uveal melanoma research and to establish a successful career path in ophthalmology, ocular oncology, uveal melanoma biology, or a similar field. The research proposed for funding must be translational or clinical in nature and must have direct, primary applicability and relevance to ocular/uveal melanoma.
Research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to ocular/uveal melanoma and must be translational or clinical in nature. If the research project is applicable to cutaneous melanoma as well, it must be focused primarily on uveal melanoma and its specific biology.
Duration: 2 years
Funding: $130,000 USD
Eligibility:
Application Deadline: 08 April 2025, 1PM US Eastern Time.
Further information
Research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to ocular/uveal melanoma and must be translational or clinical in nature. If the research project is applicable to cutaneous melanoma as well, it must be focused primarily on uveal melanoma and its specific biology.
Duration: 2 years
Funding: $130,000 USD
Eligibility:
- Applicants must have a doctoral degree (PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent) in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral degree.
- Applicants must be AACR Active members. Non-members can apply for membership online. Please review the Membership Categories for the category that best fits your qualifications.
- There are no citizenship requirements, and the call is open to research institutions anywhere in the world.
- At the start of the grant term on 01 August 2025, applicants must hold a faculty position with the title of postdoctoral fellow, clinical research fellow, or the equivalent. If eligibility is based on a future position, the position must be confirmed at the time of application and CANNOT be contingent upon receiving this grant.
- Have completed their most recent doctoral degree within the past five years (i.e., degree cannot have been conferred before 01 August 2020; the formal date of receipt of doctoral degree is the date the degree was conferred, as indicated on the diploma and/or transcript)
- Work under the auspices of a mentor at an academic, medical, or research institution anywhere in the world.
Application Deadline: 08 April 2025, 1PM US Eastern Time.
Further information
- More information about the program is available here
- Application portal can be found here and guidelines here
- For any other questions, please contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- research@epfl.ch