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 [email protected] for more information or assistance.
Funding Opportunities
- PhRMA Grants in Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery, and Translational Medicine: Letter of Intent due May 1, 2024
- Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Award (Winn CDA) for Early-Stage Investigator Physicians: Application due May 13, 2024
- Exploratory Grant Award to Promote Workforce Diversity in Basic Cancer Research (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed): New submissions due June 18, 2024
- NOT-CA-23-030: Adaptive Biomaterials for Cancer Biology (Notice of Special Interest): Application due May 7, 2025
- Victoria’s Secret Global Fund For Women’s Cancers and Career Development Award, in Partnership with Pelotonia & AACR: Application due May 15, 2024
- R16 Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award: Application due May 29
- R01 Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Cancer: Application due June 5, 2024
- R01 Research Projects to Enhance Applicability of Mammalian Models for Translational Research: Application due June 5, 2024
- R21 Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women: Application due June 20, 2024
- R01 Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women: Application due June 20, 2024
- UG3/UH3 Cancer Immunoprevention Network Research Projects: Application due July 3, 2024
- NIH Fogarty International Center Chronic, Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders Research Training, Application due July 15, 2024
- Multi-Sectoral Preventive Interventions Research Network to Address Social Determinants of Health in Populations that Experience Health Disparities: Application due August 15, 2024 UG3/UH3, Clinical Trial Required and U24, Clincal Trial Not Allowed
Data Science careers at NIH
- NIH Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Fellowship
- Robert A Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program
NCI Center for Cancer Research Job Postings
- Postdoctoral Fellow – RAS Signaling, RAF Protein Kinases
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Pericytes, metastatic microenvironment
- Postbaccalaureate Fellow – Developmental biology, regeneration
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Neuroscience, immunology, cell biology
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Immunology, immunotherapyStaff Scientist – Bioinformatics
- Postbaccalaureate Fellow – Developmental Biology, Regeneration
- Postdoctoral Fellow – HIV Assembly, Release and Maturation
- Postbaccalaureate Fellow – cancer biology, biochemistry
- Clinical Research Physician – Clinical trials, ovarian and breast cancer
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Synthetic organic chemistry, multi-step synthesisPostbaccalaureate Fellow – endocrine, cancer research
Conferences
- ASCO Annual meeting: Abstracts due February 6, 2024
- Attendance (discounted) registration due April 24, 2024
- NCI Synthetic Biology for Molecular Imaging in Cancer Workshop: April 22 – 23, 2024
- ICGCS 2024 International Conference on Gastrointestinal Cancer Syndromes: April 22 – 23, 2024
- ICBCP 2024 International Conference on Breast Cancer in Pregnancy: April 22 – 23, 2024
- ICCNPQCC 2024 International Conference on Cancer Nursing Practice and Quality Cancer Care: April 23 – 24, 2024
- ICRP Annual Meeting: May 14 – 16, 2024
- AACI/AACR Hill Day: May 16, 2024
- I am Abel Foundation 7th Chicago Annual Health, Medical and Law Citywide Student Conference: May 16 – 18, 2024
- 2024 University of Illinois Cancer Center Summer CME Series: June 12 – Lung, Head, Neck, and Colorectal Cancers + June 19– Breast and GU Cancers
AACR Educational Workshops
- Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology, July 21 – 27, San Diego, California
- Integrative Molecular Epidemiology Workshop: Bridging Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine: July 21 – 26, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- AACR/ASCO Methods in Clinical Cancer Research: July 28 – August 3, La Jolla, California Translational Cancer Research for Basic Scientists Workshop: Fall 2024
Seminars, Webinars and Workshops
- NIH Sex & Gender Differences in Cancer Virtual Workshop Series: March – June, 2024
- PAVES presentation: Benefits and Pathways to Serving on Editorial Boards: April 23, 2024, 2:00 – 3:00 PM
- University of Illinois Cancer Center Cancer Survivorship Lecture Series: April 25, 2024
- NCI Cancer Moonshot Seminar Series: April 25, 2024, 11:00 – 12:00 noon & May 23, 2024, 11:00 – 12:00 noon
- NCI Intersecting Multilevel Determinants of Cancer Outcomes and Disparities among Hispanic/Latine Populations: April 29, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
- NCI AI in IO: SITC-NCI Computational Immuno-oncology Webinar Series: May 2, 2024, 11:00 – 12:00 noon
- NCI Stromal Mutations Cause and Consequence in Cancer Biology: May 2, 2024 10:30 – 4:30 PM & May 3, 2024, 9:00 – 3:00 PM
- NCI Virtual Innovation Lab: Application due May 3, 2024. July 15 – 19, 2024 & July 26, 2024
- NCI Rare Cancers Prevention and Interception Virtual Workshop: May 7 – 8, 2024
- NCI Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Workshop: May 13 – 14, 2024
- MD Anderson Cancer Center F32 grant workshop: May 14, 2024
- NCI Innumo-Oncology Translational Network Capstone meeting: May 14 – 15, 2024
- Duke University School of Medicine, Microbiome Immunology Cancer (Free) Online Short Course: May 13 – May 24, 2024
- Reagan-Udall Foundation Natural History Studies and Registries in the Development of Rare Disease Treatments public workshop: May 13, 2024, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- CURE Distinguished Scholars Seminar: Molecular Disparities in Familial and Sporadic Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Model for a Physician-Scientist Career: May 16, 2024, 12:30 – 2:30 PM
- UIC Introduction to Bioinformatics Summer 2024 Workshops: June 24 – 28, 2024NCI Translational Advances in Cancer Prevention Agent Development (TACPAD): Poster Abstract submission due August 15, 2024
Training Programs and Internships
- Friends of Cancer Research Science Policy Fellowship: Application due May 31
- UIC Cancer Health Equity and Career Development Program for Pre/Post-Docs: Applications accepted year round.
More Trainee Resources
Email the Cancer Center’s Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) team at [email protected].