Melanoma Research Alliance | Research Funding
Event details
| Date | 20.09.2023 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals (RFP) for preclinical, translational, and early clinical research with the potential to produce unusually high impact, near-term advancements in melanoma prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment.
Proposals will be accepted for Team Science Awards (& Academic-Industry Partnership Awards), Young Investigator Awards, Pilot Awards, and Dermatology Career Development Awards, which are all summarized below.
Full details can be found in the RFP.
Team Science Award: Designed to foster a collaborative research process and promote transformational melanoma research advances with the potential for rapid clinical translation. Evidence of prior collaboration among team members is encouraged, but not required. Team must be multidisciplinary and consist of two or more established Principal Investigators from the same or different institutions.
Funding up to $300,000 per year for three years. LOI due 20 September 2023.
Team Science Academic-Industry Partnership Award: Similar requirements as Team Science Award above, but Industry partner must provide funds and/or in-kind support (e.g., reagents, clinical grade drugs, equipment, and contract services) that matches or exceeds MRA funds for the award period.
Funding up to $300,000 per year for three years. LOI due 20 September 2023.
Young Investigator Program: Aimed at early career faculty researchers working on innovative and original, preclinical, translational, and/or early clinical research projects. Applicants must be within the first five years of their first independent academic faculty appointment.
Funding up to $85,000 per year for three years. Eligibility check due 20 October 2023.
Pilot Award: Senior investigators who propose potentially transformative ideas that do not have extensive preliminary data but articulate a clear hypothesis and translational goals. Applicants must be senior investigators, past the first five years of their first academic faculty appointment.
Funding up to $50,000 per year for two years. Full proposal due 3 November 2023.
Dermatology Career Development Award: Will support research projects (including epidemiological data gaps and population health and education programs), practice changing demonstration projects, and/or immersive studies aimed at improving melanoma prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and/or staging.
Funding up to $75,000 per year for two years. Eligibility check due 20 October 2023.
How to Apply: All letters of intent and full proposals should be submitted via ProposalCentral. During the submission, 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 stage, the signature of the institution’s signing official is required; please contact the Research Office for this task.
Further information:
Proposals will be accepted for Team Science Awards (& Academic-Industry Partnership Awards), Young Investigator Awards, Pilot Awards, and Dermatology Career Development Awards, which are all summarized below.
Full details can be found in the RFP.
Team Science Award: Designed to foster a collaborative research process and promote transformational melanoma research advances with the potential for rapid clinical translation. Evidence of prior collaboration among team members is encouraged, but not required. Team must be multidisciplinary and consist of two or more established Principal Investigators from the same or different institutions.
Funding up to $300,000 per year for three years. LOI due 20 September 2023.
Team Science Academic-Industry Partnership Award: Similar requirements as Team Science Award above, but Industry partner must provide funds and/or in-kind support (e.g., reagents, clinical grade drugs, equipment, and contract services) that matches or exceeds MRA funds for the award period.
Funding up to $300,000 per year for three years. LOI due 20 September 2023.
Young Investigator Program: Aimed at early career faculty researchers working on innovative and original, preclinical, translational, and/or early clinical research projects. Applicants must be within the first five years of their first independent academic faculty appointment.
Funding up to $85,000 per year for three years. Eligibility check due 20 October 2023.
Pilot Award: Senior investigators who propose potentially transformative ideas that do not have extensive preliminary data but articulate a clear hypothesis and translational goals. Applicants must be senior investigators, past the first five years of their first academic faculty appointment.
Funding up to $50,000 per year for two years. Full proposal due 3 November 2023.
Dermatology Career Development Award: Will support research projects (including epidemiological data gaps and population health and education programs), practice changing demonstration projects, and/or immersive studies aimed at improving melanoma prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and/or staging.
Funding up to $75,000 per year for two years. Eligibility check due 20 October 2023.
How to Apply: All letters of intent and full proposals should be submitted via ProposalCentral. During the submission, 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 stage, the signature of the institution’s signing official is required; please contact the Research Office for this task.
Further information:
- More information about the program is available here
- The application portal ProposalCentral can be found here
- The full Request for Proposal is available here
- For any other questions, or for completing the signature page, please contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free