DOD FY12 Peer Reviewed Cancer Visionary Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The DOD FY12 Peer Reviewed Cancer Visionary Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-12-PRCRP-VPFA) is a Department of the Army/USAMRAA funding opportunity under the FY12 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) that aims to grow the next generation of cancer researchers. The program is built around the idea that early-career talent can drive major advances in cancer prevention, detection, and treatment when given the resources and mentorship to pursue ambitious work. In practical terms, this specific award is designed to fund a postdoctoral fellowship experience that helps a promising recent doctoral graduate develop into an independent cancer researcher while tackling research questions that matter to military beneficiaries.

A defining feature of this fellowship is its required collaboration structure: a candidate postdoctoral fellow is expected to work with an early-career independent investigator who is not yet tenured and will serve as the mentor. The mentor must be working in at least one of the FY12 PRCRP Topic Areas listed in the full program announcement, and the proposed work must align with those topic areas. The intent behind pairing a postdoctoral fellow with a newer, independent mentor is to strengthen both sides of the pipeline: the fellow receives direct guidance and an innovative environment, while the mentor builds a research program and leadership experience that can accelerate their trajectory as an investigator.

The fellowship emphasizes "visionary" science, meaning the research is expected to be cutting edge, innovative, and willing to take on higher-risk ideas that could produce high-impact outcomes. The opportunity supports both basic science and translational research, with a clear expectation that the work should have potential clinical impact, whether in the near term (short-term relevance to clinical needs) or over a longer development horizon (foundational discoveries that can later be translated into clinical benefit). This focus signals that applicants are encouraged to propose work that pushes beyond incremental progress, as long as it is scientifically sound and connected to meaningful cancer outcomes.

Administratively, the opportunity was offered as a discretionary award using cooperative agreements and grants, under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category. The listing includes an expected 20 awards with an estimated total funding amount of $7,680,000, and it falls under CFDA 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development). There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which generally makes the award more accessible to applicants and institutions by not requiring them to contribute additional funds to meet a match. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to applicant entity types, though applicants would still need to comply with any details or limitations described in the full announcement (especially those relating to the fellow and mentor roles, topic area alignment, and relevance to military beneficiaries).

Key dates included a posted and creation date of April 27, 2012, with an original and current closing date of September 12, 2012, and an archive date of October 12, 2012. For support accessing the full announcement or resolving submission issues, the contact points listed are the CDMRP Help Desk (PA HELP and eReceipt HELP) at 301-682-5507 and help@cdmrp.org.

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