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Opportunity Summary:

The DOD Breast Cancer Innovator Award (Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-12-BCRP-INNOV) is a fiscal year 2012 funding opportunity from the Department of the Army, administered through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under CFDA 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development). It is offered as a discretionary science and technology research and development award using either a grant or cooperative agreement structure, and it is designed to back a small number of exceptionally creative leaders whose work could meaningfully accelerate progress toward ending breast cancer.

The core purpose of this award is to invest in people rather than in narrowly defined projects. The program is explicitly looking for visionary Principal Investigators (PIs) who have already shown unusual creativity, originality, and leadership in their careers, whether that track record is inside breast cancer research or in another field entirely. What matters most is the PI's capacity to bring a genuinely novel perspective to breast cancer, to propose bold ideas that challenge existing assumptions, and to demonstrate an ability to see beyond standard approaches and conventional thinking. The award is framed as support for high-risk, high-reward concepts, with an emphasis on giving the selected innovator both the resources and the freedom to pursue their most unconventional, potentially transformative directions.

Because the mechanism is centered on the investigator, applications are expected to make the case that the PI has a clear history of innovation and a strong likelihood of continued breakthroughs. Reviewers are essentially being asked to judge the applicant's inventive contribution and leadership potential as the central feature of the submission. The announcement also signals that successful applicants should have demonstrated they can build and lead productive partnerships and collaborations, reflecting the program's expectation that major advances often come from interdisciplinary teams and well-managed scientific relationships.

A notable feature of the opportunity is that prior breast cancer experience is not required. The program is intentionally open to innovators from any discipline, so long as the proposed work is focused on breast cancer. At the same time, the award demands a substantial commitment: the PI must devote at least 50 percent of their full-time professional effort during the award period specifically to breast cancer research. This requirement reinforces that the program is not meant to fund a side project; it is meant to enable a major, sustained pivot or expansion of an innovator's work toward breast cancer.

In terms of scale and competitiveness, the opportunity anticipated approximately three awards with an estimated total funding level of $22,500,000, indicating a highly selective program with relatively large, individual awards intended to support ambitious research directions. Cost sharing or matching was not required, and eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning it was broadly open to different types of entities as permitted by the full announcement. The notice was posted on February 23, 2012, with an original and final closing date of August 2, 2012, and it was archived on September 1, 2012.

For applicant support and access issues related to the full announcement, the listing points to the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Help Desk (301-682-5507; help@cdmrp.org), which is the standard point of contact for CDMRP-related funding announcements and submission troubleshooting.

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