Friday, December 30, 2011

Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Cancer Research Program

By Iola Bonggay


The National Institutes of Health, also known as the NIH, is an agency operating within the US Department of Health and Human Services that is basically accountable for pursuing and financially supporting the majority of the nations biomedical and health-related research.

The programs and grants of the NIH are designed to make a contribution to the feat of its major agency mission which is to "seek basic knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that information to enhance health, lengthen life, and scale back the burdens of sickness and disability."

In accordance with this mission, the National Institutes of Health has cooperated with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) so as to build Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Cancer Research Program, whereby both agencies mean to seek grant applications expressing intents to conduct sponsored exploratory research projects that focus on the beginning and development unique, leading edge technical advances that would doubtless be used in the discipline of cancer.

The research studies that are covered under this programme could also put the focus on emerging technology, meaning includes the type of technologies that have just been started or found and have not yet been evaluated or guaged. In this, the NIH and NCI wants the candidates and investigators to explore this technologies, with the purpose of potentially making them better and more efficient.

In that respect, the organizers of the programme requires the applicants to draw their attention to research studies that have a high level of technical invention couple with a rather significant potential to noticeably affect and impact present and future inquiries regarding the molecular and cellular bases of cancer.

If successful, the end objective of these projects will result to the extreme improvement in the study of cancer biology, including the disease's prevention, treatment, diagnosis, control, and epidemiology.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute will administer funds in the amount of $5,000,000 to kick-start the projects and see it through until completion.

The setups and establishments that'll be eligible to submit offers and applications under this program are the following:

a) Higher Education Institutions like Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education and Non-public Establishments of Higher Education

b) Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Universities and Varsities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions

c) Non profit organizations apart from institutions of higher education

d) For-Profit Organizations like Small Enterprises

e) State Governments, County Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognised), and Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Apart from Federally Recognized)

f) Independent College Districts, Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities, Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognised tribal executives), Faith-based or Community-based Associations, and Regional Organisations.




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