Limited Submission Internal Deadline: St. Baldrick’s Foundation Career Development Award

Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals  

St. Baldrick’s Foundation Career Development Award  

Internal Deadline: 11:59PM on Monday, November 16, 2020 

 

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*

Key Dates

UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday, November 16, 2020 

St. Baldrick’s LOI Deadline: December 4, 2020 

St. Baldrick’s Full Application Deadline: February 19, 2021 

Important Information

Spring Grant Cycle: Spring cycle grants are funded based on scientific review. The following programs/categories are available in the Spring Cycle:

• St. Baldrick’s Scholars
• St. Baldrick’s International Scholars 

 

St. Baldrick’s funds may not be used for human embryonic stem cell research. 

To Apply

Submit the following as ONE PDF to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM on Monday, November 16, 2020:

1. A LOI (which cannot exceed one page) containing the following: 
   • References cited only may be included on a second page.
   • Times New Roman font (minimum 11 pt), 0.5 inch minimum margin
   • Name and contact information (complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address) of the applicant
   • Name of the institution(s) involved in the proposal
   • Title of the proposed research project
   • Area of focus of the research project (childhood cancer type or other research focus)
   • Relevance of the proposed research project to the mission of St. Baldrick’s, to cure childhood cancers
   • Brief rationale for the proposed research project.
   • Brief timeline of the progression of research
   • Please indicate which program/category you are applying for
2. A biosketch in NIH/NSF format 
3. Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and potential as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review. 
   • Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest  
   • Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the nomination packet to ORD

Award Information

Funding and Award Period: Funding for years 1–2 will be up to $110,000 per year to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary and fringe at the applicant institution. Up to $110,000/year, two-year minimum. Other personnel and/or non-personnel costs are NOT allowed on Scholar awards. Scholar awards are to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary and fringe at the applicant institution. The Scholar must devote no less than 40% effort to the funded project. No institutional overhead or indirect funding is provided under the terms of the grant.

 

This award is granted for two years with an opportunity to apply for an additional three years of funding based upon the demonstration of significant accomplishment. (Years 3– 5, if funded, will be up to $115,000/year).

 

For additional information please visit: https://www.stbaldricks.org/for-researchers/

 

To review the Grant Guidelines brochure, visit https://www.stbaldricks.org/file/Research/2021-SBF-Scholar-Guidelines.pdf

Program Overview

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. It started with a friendly dare: would you shave your head to raise money for kids’ cancer research? What happened next would change the world. This bold act of baldness has gained major momentum, since its start in 2000. Today, we have more than 1,000 head-shaving events taking place around the world at pubs, restaurants, schools, churches, parks, firehouses, military bases – you name it. It is our constituents’ way of changing the world, in a meaningful way. Since the Foundation’s first grants as an independent charity in 2005, St. Baldrick’s has invested more than $300 million in childhood cancer research grants worldwide. It’s about collaboration. It’s about powerful ideas, big and small. It’s about never giving up until we have cures for all kids with cancers. For more information, please visit StBaldricks.org. You can also search current and past grants at StBaldricks.org/grants.

 

Current funding priorities are divided into four categories:

1. New discovery research
2. Translational research and early phase clinical trials
3. Phase III clinical trials & infrastructure support of participating institutions (primarily the fall grant cycle)
4. 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

Eligibility

• Applicants should hold a Ph.D., M.D., or D.O. degree in a field of research specialty by the date the award becomes effective.
• Applicants must 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. Situations may occur where the institutions definition of “faculty” may differ from the Foundation’s definition, this should be fully explained in the Scholar Applicant Checklist (required at LOI stage).
• 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).
• St. Baldrick’s funds may not be used for human embryonic stem cell research.

Number of Applications per Institution

Each program/institution may submit one additional LOI/application in the Spring funding cycle in one program/funding category of their choice. This is one additional LOI/application overall for the cycle, not one additional LOI/application per program/category.

 

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
• Burkitt lymphoma
• Complementary and alternative therapies
• Hepatoblastoma
• Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
• Rhabdoid tumors

 

Additional Information

Full Solicitation: https://www.stbaldricks.org/file/Research/2021-SBF-Scholar-Guidelines.pdf

 

Please do not contact the Foundation directly. If you have any questions regarding this internal call, eligibility, or the program in general, please contact the Limited Submissions team at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

 

 

 

Limited Submissions Team

Office of Research Development

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

308 Bynum Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

(919) 962-7503