AACR Research Fellowships provide one-, two-, or three-year grants of $30,000-$35,000 per year to support salary and benefits for postdoctoral and clinical fellows. In addition, recipients will receive registration and support for travel expenses to attend the 2004 AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida and accept the award. Unless noted, awards are open to investigators conducting research anywhere in the world. Employees, subcontractors, or trainees of a national government or private industry are not eligible for these awards.
Candidates for the following three Research Fellowships must, at the start of the award term on July 1, 2004, have been a fellow for at least one year (12 months) but not more than two years (24 months).
- AACR-Anna D. Barker Fellowship in Basic Cancer Research
- AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Fellowship in Basic Cancer Research (U.S. institutions only)
- AACR-Pennsylvania Department of Health Fellowship in Basic Cancer Research (Pennsylvania institutions only)
Candidates for the following five Research Fellowships must, at the start of the award term on July 1, 2004, have been a fellow for at least two years (24 months) but not more than four years (48 months).
- AACR-Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Fellowship in Cancer Prevention Research (two-year grant)
- AACR-AstraZeneca-Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Fellowship in Translational Lung Cancer Research (three-year grant)
- AACR-Amgen, Inc. Fellowship in Clinical/Translational Cancer Research (two fellowships to be awarded)
- AACR-Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Fellowship in Clinical Cancer Research
The application deadline is Wednesday, October 15, 2003.
The AACR acknowledges the generous support of the co-sponsors of the 2004 Research Fellowships: Amgen, Incorporated, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology, Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, Pennsylvania Department of Health Services, and the Irving Weinstein Foundation.
Founded in 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is a professional society of more than 20,000 laboratory and clinical scientists engaged in cancer research in the United States and more than 60 other countries. AACR's mission is to accelerate the prevention and cure of cancer through research, education, communication and advocacy. Its principal activities include the publication of five major peer-reviewed scientific journals (Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; and Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention). AACR's Annual Meeting attracts more than 16,000 participants who share new and significant discoveries in the cancer field, and the AACR's specialty meetings throughout the year focus on all the important areas of basic, translational and clinical cancer research.