The University of Maryland School of Medicine Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (UMGCCC IDEA) Office invites UMGCCC members and cancer researchers at Maryland’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to participate in an informational session about the UMGCCC IDEA Para-PACHE Pilot Grant Program.
About the Grant Program
The IDEA Para-PACHE Pilot Grant Program is designed to foster collaborations between UMGCCC and HBCU researchers to conduct research in any cancer area. Applications must be led by Multiple Principal Investigators (MPI) comprising at least one UMGCCC faculty and one faculty from any of the Maryland HBCUs. Each partnership is expected to conduct cancer and cancer health disparities research, develop, and implement cancer research experiences and research education for scientists and students, and effectively outreach and disseminate cancer advances to underserved communities in the UMGCCC’s catchment area.
The collaborative research project should build on the training, resources, and previous research of each of the MPIs and generate new data or resources for future P20 or U54 PACHE grant applications. Applicants are strongly encouraged to look at the objectives and expectations of the NCI PACHE Program and use these to design their applications.
No more than one award will be made. Successful applicants will be supported with a budget of a minimum of $50,000 for one year and this is renewable for another year on satisfactory attainment of year one deliverables. Funded MPIs are expected to submit at least one jointly authored publication in a peer reviewed journal, show commitment to agreed timeline and demonstrable progress towards submission of a P20 or U54 PACHE grant by the end of year one to qualify for renewal.
The application deadline for the grant program is 5pm, May 26, 2023.
Date and Venue
The session will be held Monday, May 8 at 4-5pm ET and will include an overview of the award, a Q&A session, and an opportunity to meet potential research collaborators.
About the Para-PACHE Program
The objective of the Para-PACHE Program is to sustainably engage with faculty at HBCUs within the USM and UMGCCC catchment area for joint research and training programs. Through the Para-PACHE Program, the IDEA Office seeks to establish a platform for regular meetings and exchange of ideas with HBCUs; identify cancer researchers for IDEA support; motivate and assist with the development of promising ideas by promoting joint authorships, support for conferences, pilot project funding, etc.; enable HBCU investigators to access UMGCCC faculty and resources; support HBCU investigators to become members of UMGCCC and benefit from its resources and privileges; and promote cancer research and identifies other promising investigators from HBCU students, post-docs, and faculty.
UMGCCC members and HBCU cancer researchers will be invited to participate in an inaugural program meeting and networking session in the coming months.
Contact:
Mercedes M. Raphael, MBA, MA, CAE
she/her
Program Manager
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Office
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
John Eager Howard Hall, 660 W. Redwood St., Office 133A
Baltimore, MD 21201
mraphael@som.umaryland.edu │ 410-706-2861
https://www.umms.org/umgccc