DoW Rare Cancers Concept Award
Funds an untested, high-risk idea in rare cancers, judged with no names attached to keep the review blind.
Rare cancers do not attract the research volume a common cancer does, so the Rare Cancers Research Program keeps a door open for ideas nobody has tried yet. This award is that door: money for a concept, not a finished plan.
What is funded is a highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking idea in rare cancers — the application has to argue the idea is genuinely new, not a variation on p…
Highly innovative, untested concepts in rare cancers, reviewed blind — with no identifying reference to the Principal Investigator, collaborators or their organizations anywhere in the application. Preliminary data are not required.
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