Aims:

• foster collaborative efforts between U.K. and U.S. cancer researchers focused on accelerating progress in translational research toward patient benefit

• address critical problems in cancers with the potential to deliver benefit to patients

• translate these scientific discoveries into new, life-saving strategies to prevent, diagnose, or treat cancer

Stand Up To Cancer Funding Opportunities

 

 

The fellowship will be open to U.S.- and U.K.-based individuals who hold a Ph.D. and/or a medical degree. Individuals who hold a Ph.D. and/or a U.S. medical degree (M.D., D.O.) may apply. Individuals who hold both a U.K. medical degree and a Ph.D. may apply. By the start of the grant term, applicants must have completed their Ph.D. and/or medical degree and have less than a total of two years of postdoctoral or clinical research experience. Applicants must identify one qualified U.S. host laboratory and mentor and one qualified U.K. host laboratory and mentor. The work must be performed in two phases, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom. Mentors should be established leaders in cancer research with a track record of success in mentoring postdoctoral or clinical research fellows.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), on behalf of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and Cancer Research UK, is accepting applications for SU2C-Cancer Research UK Translational Research Fellowships that will offer up to $315,000 each in research funding. The grants provides four years of research fellowship support to the most talented and promising early-career investigators in the United States and the United Kingdom who have completed their Ph.D. or clinical training and demonstrate clear potential to become leaders in their fields. Research projects must be translational in nature and address critical problems in cancers with the potential to deliver patient benefit. Fellows funded through this initiative will gain translational research training in top U.S. and U.K. research institutions, allowing them to develop their own ideas and preparing them to establish and lead their own research groups, towards becoming outstanding leaders in their own fields. Proposals must include plans to promote new significant transatlantic collaborations and active exchange of knowledge and expertise between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Applications must be submitted online using the proposal CENTRAL website.

Program guidelines and application instructions: http://www.aacr.org/Uploads/DocumentRepository/SU2C/CRUK_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf