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Opportunity Summary:

The DoD Prostate Cancer Postdoctoral Training Award is a fiscal year 2014 funding opportunity under the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP), administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA). Its core purpose is to support high-quality postdoctoral research training for recent doctoral graduates who want to build a career focused on prostate cancer. The mechanism has a long history in the PCRP (dating back to FY99 under earlier names), and it is designed less as a traditional project grant and more as a career-development style award that emphasizes mentored training, professional growth, and a clear pathway to independence.

A defining feature of this opportunity is that the postdoctoral trainee is treated as the Principal Investigator (PI) on the application. In practice, that means the application is expected to be written by the trainee, with guidance from one or more mentors. The award primarily provides salary support for the PI, reflecting that the main investment is in the researcher rather than in a large stand-alone research program. Importantly, the PI does not need to already have a track record in prostate cancer specifically, but they must demonstrate strong potential and a clear commitment to becoming an investigator working at the forefront of prostate cancer research.

Mentorship is a required and central element. Applications must include at least one mentor who is appropriate to the proposed research and training plan and who has demonstrated experience in prostate cancer research and training. The announcement highlights concrete indicators of mentor strength, such as active research funding, recent publications, and a history of successful mentorship. Reviewers are also looking for evidence that the mentor(s) are genuinely committed to the trainee's development and are well positioned to help the trainee move toward research independence as a prostate cancer investigator.

Each application must present an individualized training plan that is explicitly prostate cancer focused. The program expects the trainee to map out the activities that will build the skills needed for independence, which can include coursework, learning new laboratory or analytical techniques, attending conferences and seminars, participating in journal clubs, taking on teaching or clinical responsibilities where relevant, developing grant-writing ability, and other structured professional development activities. The proposal must also clearly describe the training and research environment, showing that the institution and setting are appropriate for the work and for the trainee's growth. If the postdoc will occur in the same environment where the applicant completed their predoctoral training, the application must explain how the postdoctoral experience will be meaningfully different from, and additive to, the prior training rather than simply a continuation of the same work in the same setting.

The PCRP encourages applications across a wide range of disciplines, reflecting how prostate cancer research spans many approaches and fields. The opportunity explicitly welcomes proposals from basic science, engineering, bioinformatics, population science, translational research, and clinical research, among others, and it encourages multidisciplinary projects and cross-training when that strengthens the trainee's development. Programmatically, applicants are expected to align their work with at least one PCRP focus area and are strongly encouraged to address one of the PCRP overarching challenges. If a project does not address an overarching challenge, the applicant is expected to justify why the work still targets a critical need in prostate cancer research and/or patient care.

The announcement also points applicants toward leveraging existing PCRP-supported resources when relevant, especially for studies involving retrospectively collected human specimens or associated data. In particular, it encourages consideration of the Prostate Cancer Biorepository Network (PCBN) and the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP) as potential sources of biospecimens and correlated datasets, which can strengthen feasibility and accelerate progress when human materials are needed.

From an administrative and funding perspective, this is a discretionary opportunity offered as a grant/cooperative agreement under CFDA 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development). The opportunity listed an expected 25 awards, with an estimated total funding amount of $3.1 million, and it stated there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility was described as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), subject to clarifications in the full text. Key dates for this FY14 announcement included a posted date of May 30, 2014 and an application closing date of September 10, 2014, with archival on October 10, 2014. For access issues or assistance, the notice directs applicants to the CDMRP Help Desk at 301-682-5507.

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