Vanderbilt may submit two research grant proposals and one supportive care research grant proposal for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation spring grant cycle. Both opportunities are for specific one-year research projects that are hypothesis-driven. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a nonprofit organization raising funds for childhood cancer research.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- adolescents and young adults
- survivorship, outcomes and quality of life
- supportive care
- epidemiology and pediatric cancer predispositions
- precision medicine
- alternative and complementary therapies
Grant types
Research grants: These grants may be either laboratory, clinical or epidemiological in nature. (Please submit a realistic budget for the project.)
Supportive care research grants: These grants focus on areas related to the supportive care of children and adolescents with cancer. Examples include but are not limited to: studies related to symptom clusters, patient-reported outcomes or quality of life, health communication, health promotion, and psychosocial support across the trajectory from diagnosis to survivorship or end-of-life care.
Eligibility requirements
- Applicants should review full eligibility and budget requirements in the grant guidelines document.
- Research grant applicants should hold at least an M.D./D.O. or Ph.D. degree by the date the award becomes effective.
- Supportive care research grant applicants should hold at least a Ph.D., D.N.P. or M.D./D.O. degree, and Ph.D. nurses are encouraged to apply, by the date the award becomes effective.
- During each grant cycle, a researcher can only apply once as the lead principal investigator.
- Baldrick’s funds may not be used for human embryonic stem cell research.
- No institutional overhead or indirect funding is allowed.
Internal selection process
Anyone interested in being considered as one of Vanderbilt’s nominees must submit the following (in a single PDF) to LSO@vanderbilt.edu by 5 p.m. on Jan. 19, 2018. Please reference the grant type in the subject line of the email.
- Lay abstract and scientific abstract (200 words each)
- One-page letter of intent that includes the following: a.) name of the institution(s) involved in the proposal; b.) title of the proposed research project; c.) area of focus of the research project (childhood cancer type or other research focus); d.) relevance of the proposed research project to the mission of St. Baldrick’s, to cure childhood cancers; e.) brief rationale for the proposed research project; f.) brief timeline of the progression of research
- Project budget (realistic for the project: max. $100,000 for research grant; max. $50,000 for supportive care grant)
- Brief statement of support from department chair/center director
- Five-page CV or NIH Biosketch
Following internal selection, Vanderbilt’s nominee(s) will submit a letter of intent to St. Baldrick’s by Jan. 31, 2018.
Please contact us at LSO@vanderbilt.edu if you have any questions.