Mary Kay Foundation
Cancer Research Grant Program
**Internal selection process required**
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Program guidelines and links to previous recipients:
Sponsor website
# applicants: 1 per institution (please see internal submission requirements below)
Timeline/Deadlines:
Internal deadline: Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, 4 p.m. --see internal submission guidelines below.
Jan. 7, 2010--date final applicant selected by the Cancer Center internal review committee will be notified to proceed with the full application
Feb. 4, 2010--date the final applicant must submit his/her full application to his/her Research Process
Manager
Feb. 12, 2010--date final application due at the Mary Kay Foundation
Amount of funding:
Up to $100,000 total over two years (combined direct and indirect costs).
The program will offer at least eight grants.
Eligibility:
Stanford faculty: assistant, associate, and full professors with Medical Center Line (MCL) or university-tenure line (UTL) faculty appointments are permitted.
Research focus: innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer.
Purpose:
Since 1997, the Mary Kay Foundation has supported top medical scientists nationwide who are searching for a cure for the cancers that affect women, including breast, cervical, uterine and ovarian. This program is looking for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer.
Internal Submission Guidelines
By Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, 4 p.m., please send via email attachment one PDF file containing the following in the order listed below (title page, scanned copy of the original, signed nomination letter, research proposal, budget, biosketch, other support) to Denise Baughman, Project Manager at the Cancer Center at: deniseb@stanford.edu.
1) Title Page (printed on your department letterhead)
Title of this RFA: Mary Kay Foundation Cancer Research Grant Program
Title of your proposal:
PI contact information: (name, title, department, address, email, phone, fax)
(note: the title page should be in the above format only. Please do not create an introductory letter as part of the title page).
2) Nomination letter printed on your department letterhead and addressed to the Cancer Center Internal Review Committee, signed by your division chief and/or your department chair.
3) 4 page research proposal (12 inch font, single-spaced) (references and illustrations are not included in the page limit) (include specific aims, preliminary results and research design)
4) Budget (one page)
Total budget for the entire project should not exceed $100,000 (combined indirect and direct). Equipment and travel costs should be justified. Indirect costs, if requested, should not exceed 15% of requested direct costs.
Format of your simple budget:
CATEGORY AMOUNT
Personnel
Supplies
Equipment*
Travel*
Other (specify)
Indirect costs (not to exceed 15%)
TOTAL
*Equipment and travel costs must be justified.
5) NIH format biosketch
6) Other support (current and pending) (list sponsor, term, and amount of funding).
Contact/Questions:
Denise Baughman
Project Manager
Administration Office
Stanford Cancer Center
800 Welch Road, 2nd Floor,
Room 260, MC 5796
Stanford, CA 94305-5796
650.724.9547 (office)
deniseb@stanford.edu
