Sponsor Deadline
Posted: 12/17/2024

Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Biospecimen Science Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on further development and validation of emerging technologies that improve the quality and handling of samples used for cancer research or clinical care. Through this NOFO, NCI will support the development of tools, devices, assays, and associated methods for the collection, handling, processing, preservation, or storage of cancer-relevant biospecimens and their derivatives. This includes tools with new capabilities to preserve or protect sample integrity, or establish verification criteria for quality assessment/quality control and address issues related to pre-analytical degradation of targeted analytes. Through this NOFO, NCI solicits R33 applications where major feasibility gaps for the technology or methodology have been overcome, as demonstrated with supportive preliminary data, but still require further development and rigorous validation to encourage adoption by the research community. These technologies are expected to accelerate and/or enhance research in cancer biology, early detection and screening, clinical diagnosis, treatment, or epidemiology, or address issues associated with cancer health disparities. Projects proposing to use existing technologies where the novelty resides in the application of the technology or the biological or clinical question being pursued, and not the technical capabilities being developed, are not appropriate for this NOFO and will not be reviewed.

This funding opportunity is part of a broader NCI-sponsored Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program.

Deadlines:

  • Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): 30 days before the application due date
  • Application Due Date(s): April 4, 2025; Oct. 3, 2025

RFA-CA-25-004 Expiration Date: October 4, 2025

Amount Description

Application budgets are limited to $300,000 per year (in direct costs).

The total project period request may not exceed 3 years.