Sponsor
V Foundation
Sponsor deadline:
Internal deadline:
Deadline projected/TBC
Award Details
UBC is invited to nominate up to two applicants to apply to the V Foundation for Cancer Research V Scholar Grant. This early-career grant opportunity is intended to support adult cancer research in either laboratory-based fundamental research or translational research. Emphasis for this grant mechanism is on supporting exceptional early career investigators to be better positioned to leverage large, sustaining grants
Award Highlights:
The V Scholar grant provides researchers with $600,000 over 3 years (no indirect costs allowed) to support either laboratory-based fundamental research or translational research.
Please note that epidemiology, behavioral science, and health services research projects are not eligible for this grant.
Applicant Eligibility:
The eligibility criteria for this competition are detailed. Please review these guidelines. Faculty must have dedicated research space as well as dedicated research time, and be eligible for Principle Investigator status on major research grants (e.g. R01 Grants from NIH). Though the sponsor indicates that tenure-track is a requirement, clinical faculty who can meet the above criteria are eligible from UBC. Further, the candidate must be within their first 5 years of appointment and not have held R01 or equivalent grants, a single grant worth over 750k, or total aggregate funding of over $1m.
Nomination Process:
As an invited institution, UBC is required to hold an internal adjudication of potential nominees and select one or two candidates to move forward for nomination to the V Foundation. UBC is only eligible to submit two candidates if at least one candidate identifies with an underrepresented racial or ethnic group defined by the sponsor (black, indigenous, or latinx).
UBC internal selection deadline: May 16 (5pm), 2025
Sponsor deadline: June 2, 2025 (to be confirmed)
Interested candidates should submit the following items by the internal selection deadline of May 16 to kevin.mccartney@ubc.ca:
1) Summary of research proposal (1 page max)
2) Up to date UBC CV
3) Draft recommendation letter (3 pages max), with confirmation that this has been reviewed and approved by your Department Head, or any Head able to allocate resources.
4) A completed V Foundation Financial Worksheet (Link)
5) A completed V Scholar Nomination Form
The 3-page letter should address:
- Why you should be selected
- The institutional resources available to you
- An overview of the mentoring plan that will be available to you
- How science communication to a diverse audience is (or will be) part of your work / mentoring plan (as appropriate)
- How patient advocacy / communication is (or will be) part of your work / mentoring plan (as appropriate)
The 1-page research proposal should provide an appropriate and sufficiently detailed plan for how this grant will better position the researcher to launch their research program with sustaining funds in the future.
Please send all relevant materials to Kevin McCartney, Award Nomination Development Officer (Health) by May 16. A panel of UBC reviewers will select up to two candidates for nomination to the V Foundation, and a full application will be due in early July if selected.