The American Institute of Cancer Research is inviting applications for its Investigator-Initiated Research Grant programme from researchers at not-for-profit universities, hospitals or research centres worldwide.
The program provides renewable, two-year grants of up to $75,000 per year (plus 10% for indirect costs) for innovative projects on dietary means of preventing and treating cancer, or improving the life of the cancer patient. The aim of the program is to contribute to a deeper and more precise understanding of how food choices impact the cancer process. Projects may fall within any of the following three categories: 1) Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer, 2) Food, Nutrition and the Treatment of Cancer, and 3) Nutritionally Based Complimentary and Alternative Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer. Funds will be marked for research that is likely to produce a substantial advance on current knowledge in the areas of nutrition of the mother, fetus, neonate and young child and lifelong cancer risk; energy intake and expenditure, body composition (e.g. growth and height), body weight, physical activity and cancer risk; and projects focusing on nutrition and cancer in the developing world and countries in transition from developing to developed economic status. The Deadline for the submission of application is December 16, 2004. Full information on the grant process as well as the grant application forms may be found at http://www.aicr.org/research/grantapps.lasso Please advise the Office of Research at the Cave Hill Campus or the Office of Sponsored Research at Mona if you intent to pursue this opportunity.