Researchers & Clinicians

Writing Grants

• Grant Writing Workshops can be found here and here.

• Templates and Forms | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research | University of Illinois Chicago 

Investigator Training

• Human Subjects Training and IRB 

Funding Opportunities

• Funding Opportunities and Deadlines (External Funding, Cancer Center Open RFAs, Cancer Center Ongoing RFAs and Foundation Funding)

• Pivot Feed

Members can contact their program leaders to request support for collaborative publication costs, small grants, development of team science projects, etc.

Large NCI Multi-PI or Program Project Type Grant (P and U Series)

• Proposal Development Support Services Request Form

• Biosketch formatting

• Budget/Budget justification development

• Regulatory Core Support

• Coordinating Letters of Support

• Assistance with references

• Project management including timeline oversight (Tracking all components needed for submission and due dates)

• Meeting coordination of MPIs/co-investigators

• Shared resources help

• Conceptualization/refinement of ideas

• Editing Support (Internal and External review)

• For a resubmission, the Cancer Center can offer funding support up to $25K from the Cancer Center

Sponsors on NCI Peer Review List

• Organizations with Peer Review Funding Systems

Cancer-Focused Grant to Other Sponsors

• Submit through your home department

Limited Pre-Award Support

• Provided depending on level of support at the department level and availability of the Cancer Center Research Development Team

Post-Award Support

• Must be an NCI cancer-focused grant (e.g., R01, R21) submitted through the Cancer Center or a large-scale program project grant managed by the Cancer Center

For more information on submitting cancer-focused grants, please contact Farah Mirza, Director, Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG), at fmirza@uic.edu.

For more information on Pre/Post-Award support, contact Rocio Bueno, Director, Research Operations, at rbueno2@uic.edu.

Available Resources

• Consult a Cancer Center Science Writer

• Collect and Visualize Feasibility/Preliminary Data

  • Data Integration Shared Resource (DISR)

  • Find RFAs

• Population databases

  • University of Illinois Cancer Center Catchment Area

  • Data Hub for Communities

Help Finding Collaborators/Mentors/Tools/Technology

• Cancer Center Membership List

  • Cancer Center Members

• Research Programs & Leaders at the Cancer Center

  • Cancer Research Programs

  • Shared Resources

  • Working Groups and Think Tanks