BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

CCR Grants provide unique opportunities for scientists in the early stages of their careers to achieve research independence.

IIR Grants seek to stimulate exploration of new ideas and novel approaches in breast cancer research and clinical practice that have the potential to lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and mortality within the next decade.

Promise Grants seek to support integrated programs of collaborative and cross-disciplinary research projects leading to the accelerated translation of scientific discoveries into interventions and strategies having the greatest potential to significantly reduce breast cancer incidence and mortality.

Research projects supported by Promise Grants must provide an integrated approach to solving a critical challenge that will lead to the rapid translation of scientific discoveries into new or enhanced clinical tools and applications with the greatest potential to significantly reduce breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade. Projects must be designed to yield converging evidence that answers an important over-arching problem in breast cancer (e.g., resistance to currently available targeted therapies or novel therapies for triple negative breast cancer). Relevant research applications may include components that focus on breast cancer biology; genetics; epidemiology; prevention; detection; risk assessment; biomarkers of risk, disease burden, and/or treatment response or resistance; novel therapeutics; lifestyle interventions with the potential to affect disease outcomes (e.g., incidence and/or mortality); and novel approaches that enhance understanding of the breast cancer disease process.

CCR Grants seek to provide unique opportunities for scientists in the early stages of their careers to further their research independence by providing support for research exploring important issues and novel approaches that will lead to substantial progress in breast cancer research and reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade.

This RFA provides specific details about the Investigator-Initiated Research (IIR) Grants and what investigators need to know to apply. IIR Grants seek to stimulate exploration of important issues and novel approaches that will lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade.

Prevention Promise Grants seek to support integrated programs of collaborative and cross-disciplinary research projects leading to the aggressive translation of scientific discoveries into interventions and strategies that have the greatest potential to significantly reduce breast cancer incidence, defined here in terms of the prevention of primary breast cancers in previously asymptomatic women or prevention of second primary breast cancers in women with a previous history of cancer. Proposals seeking to prevent breast cancer recurrence would not be within the scope of this RFA. These grants seek to remove current roadblocks to development and clinical translation of effective prevention interventions. Awards will provide up to $5million over 3-5 years.

CCDR grants seek to foster independent careers in research exploring the basis for differences in breast cancer outcomes and the translation of this research into clinical and public health practice interventions, particularly among junior scientists from populations affected by breast cancer disparities. Disparities research of particular interest in this funding year must be in one of these focus areas: the study of biologic determinants of disparities in breast cancer outcomes; models of clinical care that address the causes of disparities in care and outcomes across population groups; and public health interventions that specifically address the provision of health care services in community settings and associated factors contributing to disparities in breast cancer care and outcomes. All proposed research must have significant potential to lead to reductions in disparities in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality.

Career Catalyst Research (CCR) grants seek to provide unique opportunities for scientists in the early stages of their career to further their research independence by providing support for research exploring important issues and novel approaches that will lead to substantial progress in breast cancer research and reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade.

IIR Grants seek to stimulate exploration of important issues and novel approaches that will lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade. All proposed research must have significant potential to lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade. Research of interest in this funding year must be in one of these focus areas: breast cancer biology; genetics; molecular/genetic epidemiology; prevention; detection; risk assessment; biomarkers of risk, disease burden, and/or treatment response or resistance; novel therapeutics; lifestyle interventions with the potential to affect disease outcomes (e.g., incidence and/or mortality); and novel approaches that enhance understanding of the breast cancer disease process.