Quick Overview
This grant opportunity was created based on feedback received during the November 2019 ICI Summit that brought together 32 national leaders in cancer informatics tasked with the singular objective of helping ICI choose its first multi-year, multi-institutional collaborative investment. This effort was led by ICI Advisor, Chris Sander of Dana-Faber and a committee including ICI Advisors: Bob Grossman, Channing Paller, and Niki Schultz, as well as outside advisors: Zak Kohane, Susanne Churchill, Meromit Singer, and Søren Brunak.
These larger grants are focused on fostering collaboration between tool builders and tool users on decision support projects involving two or more institutions to achieve near term clinical impact. The goal is to dramatically accelerate improvements in clinical decision making, care, and outcomes for cancer patients in 36 months or less.
- One or more multi-institutional awards that support investigator-initiated projects for 1 to 3 years@ 200K per institution/per year (contact program office for larger proposals). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- If data standardization, curation, integration, or related tools are needed, these can be included in the proposals.
- Multi-year proposals should include yearly milestones for the purpose of evaluating progress toward overall project goals. These milestones must be achieved in order to qualify for the following year of funding.
- For 3-year projects: by year 2 the project should be in its testing phase, and by year 3 the project should be in implementation.
- Projects should have a high probability of leading to near-term clinical impact in 3 years or less
- Projects should focus on the use of existing data. Data generation should not be the primary focus of the proposal
- Minimum of two institutions and two Principal Investigators at each institution.
- Each team is required to have a clinician member at each institution to manage clinical application and use.
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