Limited Submission Opportunity: St. Baldrick’s Foundation St. Baldrick’s Scholars Spring 2025 Cycle
URL: https://www.stbaldricks.org/for-researchers
OBJECTIVES:
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
The Foundation has held several Research Priorities Summits with many of the country’s leading pediatric oncology researchers participating to advise the staff and board of directors on funding priorities. The St. Baldrick’s team and Scientific Advisors meet regularly to be sure St. Baldrick’s funds make the greatest impact on pediatric cancer research.
Current funding priorities are divided into four categories:
- New discovery research
- Translational research and early phase clinical trials
- Phase III clinical trials & infrastructure support of participating institutions (primarily the fall grant cycle)
- Education of new pediatric oncology researchers
In addition to research to understand the biology of childhood cancers and discover leads to more effective treatments, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Adolescents & young adults
- Survivorship, outcomes, and quality of life
- Supportive care
- Epidemiology and pediatric cancer predispositions
- Precision medicine
- Alternative & complementary therapies
FUNDING INFORMATION:
Up to $110,000 per year for 3 years, minimum ($330,000 total), to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary and fringe at the applicant institution (no indirects). For years 4-5, applicants can request up to $115,000 per year ($560,000 maximum total).
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
One applicant will be selected to submit an LOI unless a second applicant meets the exceptions noted below.
All applicants must:
- Hold a Ph.D., M.D., or D.O. degree in a field of research specialty by the date the award becomes effective
- Currently hold (for no longer than 7 years at the time the award begins), or will hold by start of the award, a title that is considered by the institution to be a fulltime, faculty position
- Be early career. The Scholar award is intended to develop the independent pediatric cancer research careers of highly qualified investigators, not to support well established or senior investigators
- Have an appropriate Sponsor who provides supervision, facilities, and research support (when appropriate, applicants can have more than 1 Sponsor)
- Have a project that has direct applicability and relevance to pediatric cancer. They may be in any discipline of basic, clinical, translational, or epidemiological research
Scholars may receive funding from other sources to support their research. However, no other comparable or higher (monetary value) career development award may be held prior to or at the time the award begins. Scientific or budgetary overlap with other funded projects is not allowed.
Applicants holding or awarded R01s at the time of the LOI are not eligible to apply. Applicants cannot hold a NIH K-award at the time that they apply (institutional K12 funding is allowable).
Limited Submissions Exception:
BU may submit one additional LOI/application overall for the cycle (not one additional LOI/application per program/category) if they meet the following requirements.
Due to high interest from donors and low numbers of past applications, the following qualify for the above limited submissions policy exceptions:
- Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and glioblastoma (GBM)
- Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic
- Ewing sarcoma
- Rhabdoid tumors – Extrarenal
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 10/30/2024
- Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application
- Statement (up to 2 pages) describing the proposed project and rationale
- Brief timeline of the progression of the research (in Gantt chart format)
- Up-to-date applicant biosketch
A faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review internal proposals and select the nominee(s). Foundation Relations will work with the nominee(s) to develop and submit the institutional nomination letter and applicant materials by 12/9/2024
DEADLINES:
Internal Materials Due: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 by 11:59 pm
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Monday, December 9, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: LOI: Friday, February 28, 2025