Applications for aging and cancer pilot grants due March 27

Brief

The Seattle Cancer and Aging Program (SCAP) announces the availability of funds for new pilot proposals on the topic of aging and cancer in the following seven thematic areas of research:

1. Patterns of care
2. Treatment efficacy and tolerance
3. Effects of comorbidity
4. Prevention, risk assessment and screening
5. Psychosocial issues and medical effects
6. Palliative care, end-of-life care, pain relief
7. The biology of aging and cancer

Send applications (two to five pages in length) to Kathy Fawthrop at kathyfaw@u.washington.edu by March 27. The applications should describe the work that these funds might support, any preliminary data, the absence of other means to fund this work, the relation of this work to the integration of cancer and aging, and the likelihood that this small investment may lead to preliminary data that could support a future application for more substantial funding. The application should also include the participation of both a cancer and aging investigator or an expert in both areas, and the request should not exceed $40,000. Please attach a detailed budget and biosketches. Successful applications must go through institutional sign-off before funds can be released. For more details and the application form, go to www.fhcrc.org/science/scap/.

Applications are due March 27, 2006.

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