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The DoD Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Physician Research Training Award (PRTA) is a mentored training grant designed to help physicians who have clinical duties build the skills, experience, and track record needed for a long-term career in prostate cancer research. The core idea is to create a structured, individualized training experience that supports a physician in developing into an independent investigator, while still recognizing the realities of clinical responsibility. A distinctive feature is that the trainee is treated as the Principal Investigator (PI) for the application, meaning the physician applicant is expected to take primary ownership of the proposal and write it, with guidance from one or more mentors.

This award places equal weight on two things: the scientific merit of the proposed prostate cancer research project and the strength of the training plan that will develop the PI. Applicants must show a clear commitment to staying at the leading edge of prostate cancer research and clinical care, but they are not required to already have a background in prostate cancer research. At the same time, the mechanism is not aimed at applicants who already have extensive cancer research training or experience, since the intent is to support physicians who still need mentored development to become established prostate cancer investigators.

A major requirement is having at least one designated mentor who has an active, credible prostate cancer research program. That credibility is expected to be demonstrated through recent peer-reviewed publications, current research funding, and a track record of successful mentorship. The PI and mentor(s) are expected to jointly design a thorough mentoring and training framework. The announcement specifically anticipates training components such as formal coursework, learning laboratory or analytic techniques, attending and presenting at conferences, participating in seminars or journal clubs, taking on selected teaching responsibilities, balancing defined clinical responsibilities, building grant-writing skills, and other activities that make sense for the physician's research direction. The overall goal is to prepare the physician for a career path in basic research, translational research, population science, or clinical research within prostate cancer.

Program alignment also matters. Applicants are expected to address at least one PCRP focus area and are strongly encouraged to address one of the program's overarching challenges. If a project does not target an overarching challenge, the application must explain why the work still meets a critical need in prostate cancer research and/or patient care, essentially making the case that the project fills an important gap even if it is not framed within the program's highlighted challenges.

From a time-protection and budgeting standpoint, the award is intended to provide aggressive protection for research time, requiring at least 40 percent of the PI's effort to be dedicated to prostate cancer research. The mechanism also allows salary support for up to a combined 50 percent level of effort for no more than two key support personnel, which can help ensure the trainee has practical assistance to keep the research moving while maintaining clinical obligations. Research supply funding is limited: up to $15,000 per year can be used for supplies, but those funds cannot be used for costs tied to laboratory animals, human biological substances, human subjects, or clinical trials. In other words, the award can support certain research-related expenses, but it is not meant to directly pay for regulated human/animal work or trial execution. The PI can participate in clinical trials as part of the training experience, but trial costs must be covered by other funding sources.

Administratively, this opportunity was issued by the Department of the Army through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-15-PCRP-PRTA. The instrument type is listed as a cooperative agreement/grant within the science and technology and research and development category (CFDA 12.420, Military Medical Research and Development). The solicitation anticipated about five awards with an estimated total funding of $4,160,000, did not require cost sharing, and listed eligibility as unrestricted (open to any entity type, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications in the full text). The opportunity was posted May 20, 2015, with an original and current closing date of August 13, 2015, and an archive date of September 12, 2015. For access issues with the full announcement, the listed point of contact was the CDMRP Help Desk at 301-682-5507.

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