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.
The Scholar (Career Development) Award is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. Recipients are called St. Baldrick’s Scholars. Grants will be up to $110,000/year, for three years.
Institutions may submit only one Scholar Award application per year.
Deadlines:
- Duke Internal: Nov. 8, 2024
- REQUIRED Letter of intent due by Dec. 9, 2024
- Applications due by Feb. 28, 2025
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for funding without regard to race, color, ethnicity/national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, belief and spirituality, age disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• 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. o Faculty position should not depend upon the awarding of this Scholar grant. o 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).
• This is an early-career award. The Scholar award is intended to develop the independent pediatric cancer research careers of highly qualified investigators, not to support well established or senior investigators.
Funding for years 1–3 will be up to $110,000 per year (up to $115,000 per year for years 4–5), to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary at the applicant institution, including up to 30% of the salary amount for fringe benefits.
Oren Becher - Pediatrics / Pediatrics-Hematology/Oncology - Funded 7/2009 - 6/2012
The DCI Scientific Review Committee will review applications and selected their nominations on or by November 18th.
- 2-page PDF - please include the following:
- Title of the proposed project, please mention which opportunity, Infrastructure or Fellows
- Applicant’s eligibility (see the RFAs for the specifics)
- Brief description of the Research Proposal
- Project/Performance Site, if applicable
- Budget and budget justification
- Applicant’s NIH biosketch
Submit here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/f45206b4c8154e41a89a9b3217dc9e0e