Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
Funds early proof-of-concept work testing whether a new cancer research tool, assay, platform or instrument is technically feasible at all.
A brand-new way to measure, image or analyse cancer usually starts as an idea nobody has proven works yet. Before it can go anywhere — before a lab adopts it, before a bigger validation study gets funded — someone has to test whether it is technically feasible at all.
That is what this funds: early-stage, proof-of-concept and pilot studies testing the feasibility of a new method, tool, assay, pla…
Early-stage, proof-of-concept and pilot studies testing the technical feasibility of a new method, tool, assay, platform or instrument for cancer research or clinical care — including molecular and cellular analysis platforms, multi-omic and spatial profiling, imaging and sensing technologies, immuno-engineering, and biospecimen processing — judged on technical innovation rather than disease focus.
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