Vanderbilt-wide LSO: 2018 V Foundation V Scholar Awards - all cancer research

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the V Foundation V Scholar Award program, which is open to research in all cancer types.

The V Foundation aims to “achieve victory over cancer” in part by funding cancer research grants. The V Scholar Award supports young tenure-track faculty early in their cancer research careers by funding projects that are either laboratory-based fundamental research or translational research. The total amount of the grant is $200,000 awarded in two annual installments of $100,000 each. Only direct costs of the research are supported by this award.

Note that this general call is distinct from the call for Pediatric V Scholars and Pediatric Translational awards. Contact LSO@vanderbilt.edu for more information.

Applicant eligibility:

By the May 1 due date, applicants must have all of the following:

Applications from minority groups underrepresented in science are encouraged, but not required. For this application: African American or of African descent, Hispanic American (non-European) or Native American and/or an Alaskan Native would be included in minority groups
Hold a tenure-track faculty position as an assistant professor. Nonpromotable, adjunct, affiliated, temporary, part-time or acting faculty positions are not eligible for this grant competition.
Have been appointed to their first full-time assistant professor position within the last five years, and not yet been promoted to associate professor.
Clinical scientists are eligible if their department can demonstrate that it will fully support the research applicant (e.g., dedicated lab space, startup funds, dedicated research time).
Applicant must have at least two years of postdoctoral (M.D. or Ph.D.) fellowship training. For M.D.s, a minimum of one year is acceptable if only one year is required for the specialty.
Applicants must be either U.S. citizens or be a permanent legal resident in the United States.
Applicant cannot already have been awarded an RO1 or RO1-equivalent grant. As of the due date of the application, applicants who have been awarded RO1-equivalent grants (project leader on an NIH multi-investigator grant, ACS) as principal investigators or as co-leader at the time of application submission are not eligible for consideration as a V Scholar. In addition, applicants cannot be a co-leader on a SPORE project or (co)PI of the following NIH grant mechanisms: U01, DP1, DP2, R37, R23. In addition, principal investigators for research project grants (RPGs), analogous to NIH/NCI R01 awards, would also be ineligible.

Internal selection process:

Anyone interested in being considered as Vanderbilt’s nominee must submit the following (in PDF format) to LSO@vanderbilt.edu by 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 14.