Clinic & Laboratory Integration Program (CLIP) Grant

The Cancer Research Institute's Clinic & Laboratory Integration Program (CLIP) aims to bridge laboratory research with clinical application to enhance cancer immunotherapy. By funding up to $150,000 per year for two years, the program supports pre-clinical and translational research that addresses clinically relevant questions. Additionally, in collaboration with the Chordoma Foundation, CLIP invites proposals focused on developing treatments for chordoma, a rare bone cancer. This initiative fosters innovation to improve patient outcomes.

It funds research aimed at furthering the development of immunological approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer.
The development of new and effective cancer treatment requires the translation of basic laboratory discoveries into novel therapies that can be tested in patients. This area of translational research—where laboratory findings move into clinical testing, and where questions from clinical studies are brought back into the lab—is critical to bringing new and better immunotherapies to patients.
The Cancer Research Institute established CLIP to support investigators who are studying critical topics at the intersection of laboratory and clinical research.
CLIP supports pre-clinical and translational research that can be directly applied to optimizing cancer immunotherapy in the clinic. CRI CLIP Grants are awarded to qualified scientists exploring clinically relevant questions aimed at improving the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY: In partnership with the Chordoma Foundation (CF), CRI also invites LOIs focused on topics related to accelerating the development of effective treatments and ultimately a cure for chordoma, a rare type of cancer that occurs in the bones of the skull base and spine. Please be advised that CF has chordoma models and banked tumor samples (including a new TMA consisting of 95 chordoma specimens) that are available to the research community. Successful applications in this area will be co-funded by CRI and CF.
Financial Information
CRI CLIP Grants provide up to $150,000 per year for two years. The funds may be used for salary, technical assistance, supplies, capital equipment, or scientific travel. CRI does not provide funds for indirect costs. Payments are made quarterly in U.S. currency to the host institution.

Eligibility

Candidates for a CRI CLIP Grant must hold a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor (or higher rank) at the time of award activation.If not, documentation from their institution must accompany the Letter of Intent indicating they will hold the position of assistant professor (or higher rank) by the time of award activation. CRI has no citizenship restrictions, and research supported by the award may be conducted at medical schools and research centers in the United States or abroad.

Ineligibility

Please note that CRI CLIP Grants do not support research at for-profit institutions.