Scientific Perspectives Research Collaboration Awards

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Not a breast cancer researcher, but have an idea to move research forward?

The Scientific Perspectives Research Collaboration Award (SPRC) is CBCRP's newest research award. It is designed to stimulate, facilitate and fund research that brings insights, tools and ideas from research disciplines not now integrated into breast cancer research to bear on the intractable problems of breast cancer.

What are the SPRC Awards?

There are two types of SPRC Awards:

SPRC Exploratory Award — an award for up to one year ($100,000 maximum) to solidify organization structure and processes of the collaborative team; develop the project; and collect preliminary data.

SPRC Full Research Award — an award for up to three years no dollar cap, but $2 million will be available) to execute the research plan developed during the exploratory phase.

Who are the Research Partners?

To be eligible for a SPRC, applicants must:

  1. Have collaborative partners from each of the following categories:
    1. one (or more) independent investigators(s) experienced in breast cancer research;
    2. one (or more) investigator(s) experienced in another discipline outside breast cancer research.
  2. Be applying tolls and ideas from this other discipline to a problem in breast cancer research.