Statistics on Funds We Awarded in 2003 by
Award Type
CBCRP Award Types:
Collaboration Awards
To encourage thinking outside traditional research modes, the CBCRP offers
four types of awards to bring together new combinations of researchers.
All collaboration awards except the Conference Award offer one-year grants
to explore innovative
ideas and grants for up to three years to pursue promising full projects.
• Scientific Perspectives Research Collaboration (SPRC) Award:
Encourages researchers from other disciplines to team up with breast cancer
researchers and apply tools, insights, and ideas from another field of
study to breast cancer.
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Community Research Collaboration (CRC) Award:
Brings community organizations— such as breast cancer advocacy organizations,
community clinics, or organizations serving minority women—together
with experienced scientists to investigate breast cancer problems that
are important to that community, using culturallyappropriate research methods.
•
Translational Research Collaboration (TRC) Award:
Generates creative research partnerships from several fields of science
to turn discoveries in the laboratory into ways to detect, treat, or prevent
cancer.
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Joining Forces Conference Award:
Brings breast cancer researchers into dialog with creative thinkers working
in other scientific fields to exchange concepts, methods, and discoveries
that could lead to breakthroughs.
Topic-Targeted Awards—RFAs
These awards encourage more creative research in under-researched areas.
The areas for 2003 were our six Primary Priority Issues: Health Policy
and Health Services; Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breast Cancer;
Sociocultural, Behavioral, and Psychological Issues; Etiology; Prevention
and Risk Reduction; and Biology of the Normal Breast.
Training Awards
By investing in training for researchers early in their careers, the CBCRP
increases the pool of scientific talent working to end breast cancer.
•
New Investigator Award:
Encourages scientists who have recently completed their training to set
up their own research programs.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Award:
Advanced training for Ph.D.s under a breast cancer research mentor.
•
Mentored Scholar Award:
Encourages new researchers who are not yet ready to become independent
investigators to work under a breast cancer research mentor.
•
Dissertation Award:
Funds dissertation research by masters or doctoral candidates.
•
Training Program Award:
Funds programs that train undergraduate or graduate students in disciplines
important to breast cancer research.
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Career Enrichment Award:
Funds research in a field important to breast cancer that is new to an
experienced researcher or a clinician.
Innovative Research Awards
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Innovative Developmental and Exploratory Awards (IDEAs):
Funds research with a high potential for scientific payoff, understanding
that trying out new concepts also means a high risk of failure.
•
STEP Awards:
Allows research teams that have done innovative preliminary research into
exceptionally promising topics to develop their research further, as a
step toward getting funding from a major research agency for a full-scale
study.
Diversity Supplement Award
Brings students who face economic or social barriers to entering a career
in breast cancer research into the field, to work under a scientist whose
research project is already funded by the CBCRP.
In addition, the CBCRP provided $10,000 for a Diversity Supplement Award, with funding from donations made by California taxpayers on their state income tax returns.
