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SUMMARY:[ MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | Research Awards ]
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191118
DTSTAMP:20260928T184350Z
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:Aim:  The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) announces a Reques
 t for Proposals (RFP) soliciting high-impact pre-clinical\, translational\
 , and early clinical research from scientists and clinicians around the wo
 rld. The RFP calls for ideas that have the potential to lead to near-term 
 clinical application in melanoma prevention\, detection\, diagnosis\, stag
 ing\, and treatment. \n \nProposals will be accepted for Team Science\, 
 Young Investigator\, and Pilot Awards. Please find relevant details for ea
 ch program below.\n \nTeam Science\n\n	Designed to foster a collaborative
  research process and promote transformational melanoma research advances\
 n	3 years\, $300’000/year\n	Team must be multidisciplinary with two or m
 ore established PIs and one young PI\n	Letter of Intent due 07-Oct-2019. F
 ull proposal due 10-Jan-2020. *\n\n\nYoung Investigator\n\n\n	Early career
  faculty with original ideas into the field of melanoma\n	3 years\, $75’
 000/year\n	Applicants must be within the first four years of their first i
 ndependent academic faculty appointment\n	Eligibility check due 04-Nov-201
 9. Full proposal due 18-Nov-2019. *\n\n\nPilot Award \n\n\n	Senior investi
 gators who propose potentially transformative ideas that do not have exten
 sive preliminary data but articulate a clear hypothesis and translational 
 goals\n	2 years\, $50’000/year\n	Applicants must be senior investigators
 \, past the first four years of their first academic faculty appointment\n
 	Full proposals due 18-Nov-2019.*\n\n\n* All application deadlines conclud
 e at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time\n \nHow to Apply: All letters of intent and f
 ull proposals should be submitted via proposalCENTRAL.  During the submis
 sion\, you will be prompted to enter details for the Host Institution. If 
 EPFL will serve as you host institution\, please enter the name exactly as
 : Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. At the Full Proposal st
 age\, the signature of the institution’s signing official is required\; 
 please contact the Research Office for this task.\n \n \nFurther informa
 tion\n\n\n	More information about the program is available here\n	The appl
 ication portal proposalCENTERAL can be found here\n	For any other question
 s\, or for completing the signature page\, please contact the Research Off
 ice\n
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