Check Out Trainee Resources

Don’t miss this list of resources for University of Illinois Cancer Center trainees, everything from funding opportunities and conferences to training, webinars and workshops. Email the Cancer Center’s Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) team at crcee@uic.edu for more information or assistance.

Funding Opportunities

• I-CHER Center Pilot Program Funding: Deadline September 22

• HEAL Initiative Partnerships to Advance Interdisciplinary (PAIN) Training in Clinical Pain Research: The HEAL PAIN Cohort Program (T90/R90): Applications due September 26, 2023

• Empowering Health Care Equity: Harnessing Digital Health Tools for Inclusive Regulatory Decision-Making: Deadline: September 29, 2023

• RFA-HG-23-017, Investigator-Initiated Research in Genomics and Health Equity (R01, Clinical Trial Optional): Deadline: October 8, 2023

• RFA-HG-23-018, Investigator-Initiated Research in Genomics and Health Equity (R21, Clinical Trial Optional)*: Deadline: October 8, 2023

• Mission Boost Grants (MBG) : Deadlines April 1* and October 15*    

• Research Scholar Grants (RSG): Deadlines April 1* and October 15*  

• Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) : Deadlines April 1* and October 15*    

• Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG): Deadlines April 1* and October 15*

• HEAL Initiative: Discovery of Biomarkers and Biomarker Signatures to Facilitate Clinical Trials for Pain Therapeutics (UG3/UH3): Applications due October 24, 2023

• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation- Fellowship Award

• RFA-DE-24-001: Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

• NOT-CA-23-018: Research on the Etiology, Early Detection, Screening and Prevention of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer (Notice of Special Interest)

• NOT-CA-23-030: Adaptive Biomaterials for Cancer Biology (Notice of Special Interest)

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Conferences

• NCI Strategic Scientific Initiatives: Speaker: Ji-Xin Cheng, PhD, Boston University Photonics Center – Bond selective imaging technologies developing in his lab to enable discovery-driven research towards precision diagnosis and treatment of human diseases: Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 2-3 pm ET

• Dr. Tapas Das Gupta Cancer Research Symposium: October 6, 11am-3pm via Zoom

• AACR-NCI- EORTC International Conferences on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Conference: October 11-15, 2023, at Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA

• Annual National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Data Sharing (ODS) Symposium: October 16-17, 2023 at NIH Clinical Center’s Masur Auditorium

• NCI Strategic Scientific Initiatives: Speaker: Kristen Naegle, PhD, University of Virginia – Molecular and computational tools to understand tyrosine phosphorylation in cancer: Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 2-3 pm ET

• AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Translating Cancer Evolution and Data Science: The Next Frontier: December 3-6, 2023 at Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA

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Trainings, Webinars and Workshops

• National Medical Fellowships (NMF) Diversity in Clinical Trials Research Program (NMF Dctr): Application deadline: Wednesday, August 30, 2023, at 11:59 pm ET

• Postdoctoral Position in Breast Cancer Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Fejerman Lab, University of California, Davis (UC Davis)

• Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Fellowship

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 More Trainee Resources

 Email the Cancer Center’s Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) team at crcee@uic.edu.