Background

A Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Neuroendocrine Cancer (NE SPORE) is under further development at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). An initial P50 application was submitted in September 2019 and is pending review. There is need to engage additional investigators and projects that have potential to strengthen an anticipated revised application. Therefore, an AMC21 Multi-Investigator Grant was awarded to continue the development efforts for this important grant and has resulted in this pilot program.

Purpose

The pilot and feasibility program is intended to provide seed support for new and innovative research projects directed at basic, biomedical, translational, and clinical research questions that broadly pertain to neuroendocrine cancer. Pilot projects should be designed to generate sufficient data as the basis for further extramural funding in order to substantially pursue and expand the line of investigation.

Requirements

1. Principal investigators must have faculty status at UAB.
2. Junior investigators are encouraged to engage senior investigators on their research team.
3. Projects must represent a new scope of work without prior or existing grant support.
4. Budgets of up to $15,000 direct costs for one year may be requested. PI salary support is not allowed. Indirect costs should not be included. No equipment purchases greater than $5,000 are allowed.
5. Recipients are required to participate in monthly NE SPORE investigator meetings.
6. Quarterly progress presentations will be required at NE SPORE investigator meetings.

Important Dates

Release of RFA: December 15, 2019

Application Deadline: January 22, 2020

Earliest Award Date: March 1, 2020

Final Report Due: March 15, 2021

Application

Please complete and submit this application as one PDF to Kristi Herritz via email at kherritz@uabmc.edu by 5 p.m. CST on January 22, 2020.