BCRFA Innovation Awards

Award Type: Seed grant for new investigators

Geographic Scope: Alabama research entities

Focus Areas: Breast cancer research including:

• Personalized medicine
• Prevention
• Early detection
• Drug discovery
• Immunology/immunotherapy
• Genomics
• New breast cancer treatments

Eligibility:

• New investigators
• Early-stage researchers exploring innovative ideas
• Faculty at Alabama research institutions

Seed grants designed to support new investigators to explore innovative ideas in breast cancer research. Helps fund initial research to generate preliminary data supporting applications for extramural, peer-reviewed funding from national sources.

Research Institutions Supported:

• O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB
• HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
• USA Mitchell Cancer Institute
• Southern Research
• University of Alabama
• CerFlux

Contact Information:

• Phone: 205-996-5463
• Email: [email protected]
• Address: P.O. Box 531225, Birmingham, AL 35253
• Office: 4 Office Park Circle, Suite 109, Birmingham, AL 35223

Application Process

1. Request Submission Guidelines: Visit bcrfa.org/breakthroughs.php or email [email protected] to request a copy of submission guidelines and application materials
2. Proposal Submission: Submit research proposals by announced deadline (historically October)
3. Content Requirements: Include description of innovative approach and preliminary feasibility data
4. Review Process: Proposals reviewed by BCRFA selection committee
5. Award Announcement: Recipients announced at BCRFA Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Research Retreat

Key Features

• One-year or multi-year funding available
• Designed for novel, high-risk/high-reward research ideas
• Two awards available per funding cycle
• Intended to support exploratory research phase