Research Project Bank of Colorectal Research
The Young Researchers Committee of the Research Foundation of ASCRS wishes to promote research in our field. We have gathered a list of currently ongoing research projects that might be of interest to physicians in training. The present list of research projects is by no means complete. The projects described herein cover a wide variety of research interests. In this current climate of decreased external funding, many institutions will have research opportunities available for residents in training or fellows who are able to provide their salary from other sources. Some institutions have available funding for salaries. We hope that this brief guide is of help to those seeking research opportunities in the field of colon and rectal surgery and wish you well in your future endeavors.
The Young Researchers Committee
Research Foundation of ASCRS
| Grant Name: |
Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award |
| Amount/Year: |
$75,000 |
| Duration: |
1 year |
| Deadline: |
2/10 |
| Eligibility: |
Applicants must be non-tenured assistant professors in a science field. |
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| Grant Name: |
Fight Colorectal Cancer — Michael’s Mission — Fellowship in Young Onset, Late-Stage Colorectal Cancer Research |
| Amount per Year: |
$100,000 |
| Duration: |
2 years |
| Deadline |
1/27 |
| Eligibility: |
Applicants must be in the first five years of a postdoctoral or clinical research fellowship. |
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| Grant Name: |
Debbie's Dream Foundation — AACR Gastric Cancer Research Fellowships |
| Amount per Year: |
$50,000 |
| Deadline: |
2/10 |
| Eligibility: |
Applicants must be in the first five years of a postdoctoral or clinical research fellowship. |
Research Grants for Independent Investigators:
Grant Name: Basic, Preclinical, Clinical and Epidemiology Research
Amount per Year: Up to $200,000 plus 20% allowable indirect costs
Duration: up to 4 years
Deadline: 4/1 & 10/15
Eligibility: Supports investigator-initiated research projects. Investigators must be within six years of a faculty appointment.
Grant Name: Institutional Research Grant
Amount per Year: Average $90,000
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: 4/1
Eligibility: Supports junior investigators for cancer research.
Grant Name: Professorships in Research and Clinical Oncology
Number of Awards: Limited number
Amount per Year: up to $80,000 for direct costs only
Deadline: 5-renewable once
Eligibility: Supports mid-career researchers with seminal contribution to cancer research.
Mentored Training and Career Development Awards:
Grant Name: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Amount per Year: 1st year - $48,000, 2nd year - $50,000, 3rd year - $52,000
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: 4/1 & 10/15
Eligibility: Supports the training of researchers who have just received their doctorate to enable them to qualify for an independent career in cancer research.
Grant Name: Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research
Amount per Year: $135,000
Duration: 5 yearrs
Deadline: 4/1 & 10/15
Eligibility: Supports junior full-time faculty within the first four years of their appointment.
Grant Name: Research Scholar Grants
Amount per Year: $165,000 per year plus 20% indirect costs
Duration: 4 years
Deadline: 4/1 and 10/15
Eligibility: Supports investigators in their first six years of an independent research career or faculty appointment.
Grant Name: Junior Faculty Development Award
Amount per Year: $100,000
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: 12/5
Eligibility: Supports ACG member who is a university junior faculty member.
Grant Name: Clinical Research Award
Amount per Year: $35,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: 12/5
Eligibility: Supports ACG member for full-time research in AAS member lab.
Grant Name: Resident Research Scholarships
Amount per Year: $30,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: 9/1
Eligibility: Supports research for residents in surgery or surgical subspecialty.
Grant Name: Faculty Research Fellowships
Number of Awards: 2
Amount per Year: $40,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: 11/1
Eligibility: Supports surgeons entering their academic career and helps establish independent research.
Grant Name: George H. A. Clowes, Jr., MD, FACS, Memorial Research Career Development Award
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $45,000
Duration: 5 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports full-time academic faculty within seven years of finishing training. Previous Career Development Award recipients are not eligible.
Grant Name: Jacobson Promising Investigator Award
Number of Awards: 1 every other year
Amount per Year: $30,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: 3/27
Eligibility: Award is intended to recognize outstanding surgeons engaged in research to advance the art and science of surgery.
American Federation for Medical Research
Grant Name: Henry Christian Awards
Number of Awards: 10
Amount per Year: $1,250
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports post-MD trainees including residents, clinical fellows and physicians pursuing graduate degrees.
Grant Name: Outstanding Investigator Awards
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $5,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports researchers age 45 or younger. Applicants must be nominated by two individuals using the OIA nomination form, and must be available to present their work.
Grant Name: Junior Physician Investigator Awards
Number of Awards: 2
Amount per Year: $2,500
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Applicant must be full-time medical school faculty forfive years or less and must submit a letter of support from their mentor.
Grant Name: Research Grants
Number of Awards: 10
Amount per Year: up to $100,000
Duration: 1-2 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports investigation in geriatrics for candidates at the assistant professor level.
Grant Name: Paul Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research Program
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Sustains and supports the research careers of clinically trained individuals who are pursuing research careers in aging.
Grant Name: AGA — Boston Scientific Career Development Technology and Innovation Award
Amount per Year: $75,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: 6/5
Eligibility: Supports young investigators working toward independent careers in gastroenterology, hepatology, or related areas focused on technology and innovation.
Research Development Awards:
Grant Name: Elsevier Gut Microbiome Pilot Research Award
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $25,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: 1/15
Eligibility: Support for new and established investigators.
Grant Name: Research Scholar Awards
Number of Awards: 20
Amount per Year: $90,000
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: 10/16
Eligibility: Support for young investigators, instructors, research associates or equivalents working toward independent careers in gastroenterology, hepatology or related areas.
Grant Name: Travel Grants
Number of Awards: Several, see website
Grant Name: Investigator Initiated Research Grants
Amount per Year: up to $75,000 per year plus 10% indirect cost allowed
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports research on dietary factors of onset, development and treatment of cancer.
Grant Name: Matching Grants
Amount per Year: up to $75,000 per year plus 10% indirect cost allowed
Duration: 2 years, renewable
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports research on dietary factors of onset, development and treatment of cancer, matches private corporate funding.
Grant Name: Clinical Research Career Development Awards
Amount per Year: $200,000 total
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Provides funding for clinical investigators in their second to fourth year of a faculty appointment to establish an independent clinical cancer research program.
Grant Name: Young Investigator Award
Amount per Year: $50,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Provides funding to final-year fellows or first-year junior faculty to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology.
Grant Name: Advanced Clinical Research Award
Amount per Year: $150,000
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Supports clinical oncology researchers involved in work for 5-10 years and is intended to support original research not currently funded.
Grant Name: Don Wilson Award
Number of Awards: 3
Amount per Year: $7,500 plus 20% to host institution
Deadline: 9/7
Eligibility: An international exchange program for ASGE members to assist in underwriting reasonable and customary travel and living expenses for a period of one to three months. Applicants must be a junior faculty member or Advanced Fellow.
Grant Name: ASAF Fellowship Research Award
Amount per Year: $75,000
Duration: 1 year (renewable for an additional year)
Deadline: 6/16
Eligibility: Supports and encourages gifted young surgeons who choose a career in investigation and academic surgery. Awardee should have a primary role in research and teaching. It is expected that the Fellow will have a faculty position at the Department of Surgery.
Grant Name: Roslyn Faculty Research Award
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $35,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Awards those within five years of first academic appointment who have not received a previous career development award.
Grant Name: Research Fellowship Award
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $20,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Open to residents and fellows with two years of post-graduate training.
Number of Awards: Variable
Amount per Year: No set amount
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: No deadline; letter of intent required
Eligibility: Grants will be awarded to not-for-profit institutions worldwide, such as universities, hospitals and research institutes. Proposals must be clinically relevant and benefit patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis in the next several years. Preference will be given to proposals with strong potential of clinical applicability and benefit to IBD patients in the foreseeable future.
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
Grant Name: Senior Research Award
Amount per Year: up to $115,830 plus 10% indirect costs
Duration: 1-3 years
Deadline: Letter of Intent due 11/1 & 5/1; Applications due 1/14 & 7/1
Eligibility: Supports research relevant to inflammatory bowel disease by an established independent investigator with an MD, PhD or equivalent degree.
Grant Name: Career Development Award
Amount per Year: up to $90,000
Duration: 1-3 years
Deadline: Letter of Intent due 11/1 & 5/1; Applications due 1/14 & 7/1
Eligibility: Supports research pertinent to surgery for a CSA member or a researcher sponsored by member.
Grant Name: Research Fellowship Awards
Amount per Year: up to $58,250
Duration: 1-3 years
Deadline: Letter of Intent due 11/1 & 5/1; Applications due 1/14 & 7/1
Eligibility: Supports research relevant to inflammatory bowel disease by a non-established investigator, MD, PhD or equivalent degree.
Grant Name: Student Research Awards
Number of Awards: up to 16
Amount per Year: $2,500
Duration: minimum of 10 weeks
Deadline: 3/15
Eligibility: Available for undergraduate, medical or graduate students to conduct full-time research in IBD with a mentor.
Grant Name: Health Grants
Number of Awards: Not specified
Amount per Year: No set amount
Eligibility: Usually awarded to institutions
Grant Name: International Cancer Technology Transfer Fellowships
Number of Awards: up to 150/year
Amount per Year: $3,400
Duration: up to 3 months
Deadline: Open
Eligibility: Facilitates rapid international transfer of cancer research techniques and technology and clinical management skills.
Grant Name: ACS UICC International Fellowships for Beginning Investigators
Number of Awards: up to 8
Amount per Year: $50,000 each
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: Open
Eligibility: Supports the advancement of academic careers of beginning investigators at the assistant professor level.
Grant Name: International Cancer Study Grants
Number of Awards: 14-16/year
Amount per Year: $10,000
Duration: 3 months
Deadline: 1/15 & 7/15
Eligibility: Supports the establishment of bilateral cancer research with collaborating investigators abroad.
Grant Name: R21/R33, K08 (Manpower Grant), R01, K12, R21, Requests for Applications (RFA's), Program Announcements (PA's)
Further Details: See website for eligibility, deadline, duration and additional information on all grants.
Eligibility: Digestive diseases including transport and absorption, GI motility, mucosa and immunology, nutrition, epidemiology and data systems, neuroendocrinology
Further Details: See website for eligibility, deadlines, duration and additional information on all grants.
National Institutes of Health
See website for full listing of grants, eligibility, deadlines, duration and additional information.
Number of Awards: 2
Amount per Year: $40,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: This Foundation prefers to award to young investigators with a specific interest in chemoprevention. No investigator who receives direct funding from the tobacco industry will receive funding from us.
Grant Name: Career Development Award
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $50,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: 1/16
Eligibility: This award for young faculty is to assist in the establishment of investigators, basic or clinical, in digestive diseases. Applicatns must be within five years of an initial faculty appointment. Dedicated research time must be significant.
Grant Name: Karen and Josef E. Fischer Traveling Fellowship for Surgeons in Academic Practice
Number of Awards: 1
Amount per Year: $5,000
Duration: 2-3 weeks
Deadline: 2/6
Eligibility: Promotes interaction and learning among SSAT members in academic practices with GI surgeons in academic practices in other countries. Preference will be given to those within 10 years of initial academic appointment.
Grant Name: Research Awards
Number of Awards: Includes: Flexible GI Endoscopy, Diagnostic and/or therapeutic laparoscopy, The Basic Science of Laparoscopy, The Use of Biomaterials in Endoscopy Surgical Education, etc.
Amount per Year: $15,000
Duration: 1 year
Deadline: See website
Eligibility: Encourages young investigators to facilitate extramural funding-bench or clinical research in topics of endoscopy, laparoscopy, robotics, endoluminal surgery and bariatric surgery.
Grant Name: Clinical Investigator Award
Number of Awards: Open
Amount per Year: Open
Duration: Open
Deadline: 1/12
Eligibility: Applicants must be Surgical Oncologists within 10 years of completion of their training.
Grant Name: SUS Foundation Junior Faculty Grant Award
Amount per Year: $30,000
Duration: 1-2 years
Deadline: 8/1
Eligibility: Supports the research of a junior surgeon within three years of a faculty appointment whose work involves the basic science that underlies a surgical disease.
Grant Name: Career Development Program
Number of Awards: Not specified
Amount per Year: Option of salary support and up to $50,000 of research funding
Duration: 3-5 years for mid-level CDA
Deadline: 6/1 & 12/1
Eligibility: Designed to attract, develop and retain talented VA researchers in areas of particular importance to VA by providing a well-constructed, mentored research development experience.
Useful websites for research and funding opportunities:
NIH Regional Seminars on Grant Writing
A schedule of regional seminars and annual meetings to provide tips on grant writing:
Introduction to government agency funding
Introduction to Fellowship Awards