$450,000 paid in three annual increments per year.

Letter of Intent Due: August 2010 (Approx)
Full Application Due: October 2010 (Approx)

The Advanced Clinical Research Award (ACRA) is designed to fund mid-career investigators who are committed to clinical cancer research and who wish to conduct original research not currently funded. The Advanced Clinical Research Award in Sarcoma is intended to support proposals with a patient-oriented focus, including a clinical research study and/or translational research involving human subjects.

• Be a physician (MD, DO, or international equivalent) who is in the fourth to ninth year of a full-time, primary faculty appointment in a clinical department at an academic medical institution at the time of grant submission.
• Have completed productive post doctoral/post fellowship research and demonstrated the ability to undertake independent investigator-initiated clinical research.
• Be an active member of ASCO or have submitted a membership application with the grant application.
• Be able to commit 75% of full-time effort in research (applies to total research, not just the proposed project) during the award period.

For further information, please visit the ASCO website.