Research Scholar Grants: These grants will be awarded for up to $200,000 a year, direct costs, for 4 years.

Mentored Research Scholar Grants: Awards are for up to five years and for up to $135,000 per year direct costs.

Postdoctoral Fellowships: Awards are for three years with progressive stipends of $44,000, $46,000, and $48,000 per year, plus a $4,000 per year fellowship allowance.

Annual submission deadlines: April 1 and October 15.

The American Cancer Society announces this Request for Applications for the American Cancer Society MEN2 Thyroid Cancer Consortium. The Consortium will be led by a single renowned senior scientist who will be awarded the American Cancer Society MEN2 Thyroid Cancer Professorship and act as leader for the overall program. Appropriate areas of investigation include, but are not limited to: understanding consequences of RET mutations, molecular events underlying the development of MEN2-related tumors, improved animal models of MEN2, new screening and monitoring tools, new imaging approaches, and new pharmacologic and other strategies to blunt the effects of mutations in RET and other genes associated with medullary thyroid cancer.

Research Scholar Grants:  must have an independent research or faculty position and can be at any stage of their career.

Mentored Research Scholar Grants: junior faculty members with a doctoral degree in a clinical or cancer control research discipline (e.g., M.D., and/or Ph.D.) that are within the first four years of a full time faculty appointment or equivalent, and have no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience immediately prior to their faculty appointment.

Postdoctoral Fellowships: must have obtained their doctoral degree prior to activation of the fellowship. Individuals who have held a PhD or MD and have been doing research for more than 4 years and at the time of application are not eligible.

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