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Cancer Control Research in Underserved Communities and Populations
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES

NCI provides several Web sites that describe available funding opportunities. To see them, visit:

• http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/extra/rfa to see NCI Requests for Applications
• http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/extra/pa to see NCI Program Announcements
• http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/concepts to see research concepts that have been cleared by NCI for future solicitations, with useful contact information
• http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide to see the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts which is updated weekly.

Successful Sociocultural Research Grants

• Hospital emergency rooms are often the only providers of care for low-income and minority women who suffer a disproportionate rate of cervical cancer. A study supported by an NCI grant showed that ER physicians can perform high-quality Pap smears during routine pelvic exams, and that these tests detect a high incidence of biopsy-proven dysplasia.
• Pediatricians have contact with low-income and minority parents who might not otherwise see a medical provider. Another NCI supported study revealed that pediatricians are interested in giving anti-smoking advice, and that parents would welcome it.

ASRB offers many resources to help scientists prepare cancer control research grant applications, including:

• A Web-based grant-writing mentoring program called Mentoring and Grantsmanship Information in Cancer Control (MAGICC). MAGICC is located at http://www.magicc.net/ and provides:
  1. descriptions, definitions, references and examples of grant proposal development
  2. Virtual Technical Assistance Workshop (VTAW) a periodic virtual grant-writing workshop
  3. chat sessions with cancer control scientists
  4. information about current funding opportunities
  5. links to cancer research resources, journals, publications, and biomedical databases
  
  
• Grant-writing workshops are offered yearly at locations near the NIH campus and across the U.S.
• Researchers' Toolbox bi-annual newsletter provides information about grant application review, Internet resources, new programs and publications, contacts in the cancer research community, and news from NCI. For a free subscription, email Veronica Chollette at vc24a@nih.gov or visit http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/TOOLBOX/default.html.

NCI uses standard National Institutes of Health funding mechanisms to fund relevant cancer control research, including:

• Research projects performed by an investigator in an area representing his or her specific interests and competencies (R01 Research Project Grants)
• Preliminary, short-term research projects (R03 Small Research Grants)
• Pre-intervention research testing of a novel or creative concept that may produce advances in the behavioral sciences (R21 Exploratory/Developmental Grants)
• Research projects with a common theme, using shared resources for groups of researchers (P01 Program Project Grants)
• National or international meetings, conferences and workshops (R13 Conference Grants)

Cancer Control Research in Underserved Communities and Populations
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES

Despite the many advances in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States. Certain populations share the burden disproportionately. Minority groups such as Hispanics, African Americans and Pacific Islanders and people of all races with low incomes have higher rates of certain cancers than the general population. Cancers are diagnosed at a later stage and have poorer prognoses in these groups than among the population at large, leading to higher mortality rates. It is this disparity that the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the lead federal agency for cancer research established the Applied Sociocultural Research Branch (ASRB) in 1998.

ASRB lends visibility, leadership, and technical assistance to extramural cancer control research scientists who seek funding to help understand and find ways to prevent, control, treat, and reduce the profound impact of cancer within underserved communities and populations. ASRB offers funding to scientists at cancer centers, educational institutions, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and government agencies.

For more information about cancer control research funding opportunities or if you need help preparing a cancer control research grant, contact:

Program Director
Applied Sociocultural Research Branch
National Cancer Institute
Executive Plaza North, Room 232, MSC 7330
Bethesda, MD 20892-7330
Telephone: (301) 435-1505
FAX: (301) 480-6637

Please visit NCI's Applied Sociocultural Research Branch Web site at http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/asrb .
It provides links to other NIH and cancer research sites and information about the branch's activities.

For information on NCI's programs related to cancer in minorities and other special populations, visit the NCI's Office of Special Populations Research Web site at http://ospr.nci.nih.gov.

NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
NIH Publication No. 00-4816
August 2000