SRI Call for Applications
Application Process
There will be two types of applications depending on the initiative:
- Request for Proposals (RFPs) are similar to CBCRP’s core, investigator-initiated program applications, responding to the particular initiative topic;
- Request for Qualifications (RFQs) include specific research questions and plan, requesting the qualifications of applicants to conduct the study.
All applications, whether RFP and RFQ, must be submitted through proposalCentral. Any PI as well as their respective institution officials (i.e. signing officials and fiscal contacts) must be registered on the proposalCENTRAL website: https://proposalcentral.altum.com
NOTE: Dates have changed as of 7/30/08
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Research Opportunities
The following research opportunities will be available through open application in 2008:
- California Chemicals Policy and Breast Cancer
A single award to identify the best currently available chemical tests and develop timely recommendations for considering the unique causal pathways though which chemicals may contribute to breast cancer to inform California’s Green Chemistry Initiative, through research and by convening an expert working group. Estimated $150,000 - Demographic Questions for California Breast Cancer Research
A single award to lead an expert group in developing recommendations for standard measurements to collect information on population characteristics are both necessary and useful to conceptualize and understand population group differences in health status, access to health care and survival/mortality. Estimated $300,000 - Toward a New Paradigm of Breast Cancer Causation and Prevention
A single award to lead an interdisciplinary expert group in developing a complexity-theory based model of breast cancer causation that takes into account many events, over time and on many levels to help researchers consider a web of relationships among many variables that contribute to causing or preventing breast cancer over the life course. Estimated $230,000 - Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-Specific Breast Cancer Survival
Up to seven awards for investigators with data from existing California studies to collaborate on a feasibility study to determine whether the data can be combined to better understand why people from different racial and ethnic groups have different survival outcomes. If it proves feasible to combine the studies and answer meaningful research questions, the CBCRP will provide $3.9 million for a survival study. Estimated $200,000 - An Integrated Approach to Understanding Behavioral, Social, and Physical Environment Factors and Breast Cancer among Immigrants
Approximately three transdisciplinary pilot studies will be funded to analyze multi-level data to describe the changes in behavior, social and physical environment associated with a California immigrant population that may influence breast cancer risk. Estimated $1,200,000 - Make Chemicals Testing Relevant to Breast Cancer
Up to nine awards to either (a) identify and evaluate a comprehensive, cost-effective battery of tests for screening chemicals that the spectrum of mechanisms by which chemicals are known or suspected to contribute to breast cancer; or (b) develop new methods and model systems for testing chemicals for their potential to contribute to breast cancer. Estimated $3,600,000 - New Statistical Models to Address Disease Complexity
Approximately five awards to develop new statistical analysis strategies, using existing methods, to better address how multiple environmental and social exposures across the life course may interact to affect breast cancer risk and to test these models on breast cancer data. Estimated $840,000
More Information
More information about the research and details about applying for research funds will be coming soon. If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to automatically receive SRI funding announcements, please email SRI@CABreastCancer.org.
