CFCCC Bulletin - Events, Announcements, Funding Opportunities and More

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Upcoming Events

Sept.

6

SOM Office of Research Informational Webinar: UCI Foundation Relations - Support for Researchers Seeking Funding

12:00 - 12:30 PM

Zoom

Sept.

13

Cancer Control Meeting: Research Innovations in Survivorship Models of Care featuring Dr. Raymond Chan (Flinders University)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Palmer Family Research & Conference Room, Room 2608, Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences or Zoom

Sept.

13

Early Age-Onset Colorectal Cancer - Insights and Innovations in Diagnostics and Treatments

Host: UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Virtual Webinar

Learn More or Join via Zoom

Sept.

16

UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge Rally

8:00 - 11:00 AM

UCI Research Park | 5141 California Avenue, Irvine, CA 92617

Sept.

22

Cancer Center Scientific Retreat

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach

Sept.

29

CHOC SC-PACS Education Day

4:30 - 7:30 PM

The Assembly | 1715 Flight Way, Tustin, CA 92782

Learn More (registration forthcoming)

Oct.

7

UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge

UCI Aldrich Park

Announcements

Join the CFCCC Leadership Team

The CFCCC is seeking faculty to join the CFCCC Leadership Team. This unique opportunity allows incumbents to work directly with current leaders and gain valuable insights into the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively lead and manage cancer center research, clinical trials, and programmatic activities. The CFCCC seeks:

A Deputy Associate Director for each of the six key component areas
An Assistant Program Leader for each of the three research programs

Learn More & Submit Nomination by Sept. 1

Congratulations to COE Staff Members whose abstracts were approved for presentation at the Cancer Center Community Impact Forum this Year in Miami!

Melenaite Fifita | Maximizing the impact of partnerships between community-based organizations and academic institutions to increase the Pacific Islander population on campuses across California

Vy Le | Assessing Cancer Health Disparities through a Community Outreach and Engagement (COE Lab)

Cevadne Lee | Using geospatial approaches to connect Cancer Control and COE efforts

Good news, the CFCCC recently executed a contract with Tempus, a genomic testing company, to gain access into their Tempus+ program.

Tempus+ is designed to help advance precision medicine goals and research interests by providing interested researchers with independent access to their LENS database, which currently holds >6 million+ clinically and molecularly paired de-identified patient records.

Benefits of Tempus+ include:

Accelerate research interests by leveraging the Tempus+ data library to test research hypotheses.
Leverage insights from the Tempus+ data library to impact patient care (e.g. use Tempus tools in molecular tumor boards)
Participate in cross collaborative working groups.
Early access to new Tempus technology products and solutions aimed at decision support and workflow optimization.

We would love to share this program with you. If you are interested please contact Christine Hui (cnhui@hs.uci.edu) to begin the process of provisioning access to the Tempus database.

Save the Date: The Science of Mind-Body Interactions in Cancer Survivorship

Nov. 8 | 12 - 2 PM | Sue Gross Auditorium

Join UCI Public Health and the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center for an informative, interdisciplinary conversation on the Science of Mind-Body Interactions in Cancer Survivorship with featured speaker Julienne Bower, PhD. This event will be moderated by Michael Hoyt, PhD.

Learn More and Register

Biostatistics Shared Resource - In-person Walk-in or Zoom Consultations Available

Informal statistical in-person walk-in or via Zoom consultations are available to discuss your study design and statistical needs. After you have booked the meeting, the Zoom information will be sent to you if you would like to meet via Zoom.

Every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday from 2 - 4 PM
Location: 200 S Manchester Ave, Orange, CA 92868, Suite 400, Room 433

Questions? Contact Wen-pin Chen, Senior Statistician and BSR Manager.

Book Your Consultation

Funding Opportunities

For a curated list of federal and foundation funding opportunities, please refer to CFCCC's Funding Opportunities webpage. Highlighted funding opportunities are listed below.

FOUNDATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

These opportunities do not require nomination or selection by the Cancer Center. For foundation funding opportunities, visit the Foundation Funding Opportunities page.

Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance (MOCA)

2023 National Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer Research Awards

$150K/1 year

Focus: early detection of ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer

Proposal: September 1, 2023

Learn More and Apply >>

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Equity in Access Research Program

(1) Building Evidence for Effective Strategies to Increase Therapeutic Cancer Clinical Trial Accrual: Promoting Access for Patients from Underrepresented Groups ($2.5 million/5 years)

(2) Understanding How Health Insurance Affects Equity in Access to Care for Patients with and Survivors of Blood Cancer ($750K/3 years)

Letter of Intent: September 15, 2023

Learn More and Apply >>

Career Development Program

Focus: Early career blood cancer researchers

Basic Translational: Fellow, Special Fellow, Scholar

Clinical: Scholar in Clinical Research

$210K - $625K

Eligibility Phase Deadline: October 27, 2023

Learn More and Apply >>

Melanoma Research Alliance

Team Science Award – LOI: September 20, 2023

Academic-Industry Partnership Award (for Team Science) – LOI: September 20, 2023

Young Investigator Award – Eligibility Checklist: October 20, 2023

Dermatology Career Development Award – Eligibility Checklist: October 20, 2023

Pilot Award – Proposals: November 3, 2023

Learn More and Apply >>

Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research

Focus: cutting-edge prostate cancer research (proof-of-concept)

$50K

Application: October 2, 2023

Learn More and Apply >>

FEDERAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

For more federal funding opportunities, visit the Federal Funding Opportunities page.

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs

Funding mechanisms may cover awards for early-stage investigators, postdocs, exploratory/innovation research, translational research, clinical research/trials, and team projects.

FY23 Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) - next deadline September 12, 2023

FY23 Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) - next deadline September 15, 2023

FY23 Melanoma Research Program (MRP) - next deadline August 31, 2023

FY23 Pancreatic Cancer Research Program (PCARP) - next deadline September 14, 2023

Newsroom

UC Irvine-led study links low-dose radiation to higher cancer risk

“We wanted to strengthen the scientific basis for radiation protection by directly studying settings where low-dose exposures occur,” said corresponding author David Richardson, Ph.D., professor of environmental and occupational health with UCI’s Program in Public Health. “Understanding those associations is essential to inform decisions about medical and commercial uses of ionizing radiation, exposure limits for the public, and workers.”