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Dear Colleague,
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) seeks your input to help determine the next big cancer research program that the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) can address over the next several years. Send us your ideas by responding to our Request for Information (RFI) by February 19, 2021.
As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), the FNLCR tackles the world’s hardest biomedical research challenges through public-private efforts and by offering shared resources, materials and opportunities to the cancer research community.
In the model of the FNLCR’s highly successful RAS Initiative, launched in 2013 to focus on attacking the RAS oncogene – implicated in more than 30 percent of all human cancers, 95 percent of pancreatic cancers and 45 percent of colorectal cancers — NCI is looking for your ideas on the most important needs and promising opportunities in cancer research that are difficult to address on an individual scale but that can be addressed through the special scientific mission of a national lab.
Your ideas could contribute to the shared progress of cancer research at the FNLCR.
As the only FFRDC solely dedicated to biomedical research, the FNLCR combines private sector business practices with government infrastructure. The FNLCR can achieve long-term cancer research and development needs and can rapidly and flexibly take on high-risk efforts that are not able to be performed as effectively by other government mechanisms.
Please send us your ideas and share this RFI with your colleagues, partners, and network to encourage broad community input and diverse perspectives that will steer the future of cancer research.
How to Submit Your Idea
Please follow the submission instructions as stated in the RFI. Responses will be accepted through February 19, 2021. Your response should include:
- Background
- The cancer research problem to be addressed
- Why a national program is needed
- Implications of success
Email responses to RFI_NewNationalPrograms@nih.gov. Subject line: RFI Response.
Questions about the RFI can be sent to: RFI_NewNationalPrograms@nih.gov.
If you are willing to do so, please include the following optional information in your response:
- Identification of the nature of your involvement and/or interest in cancer research (i.e., whether you are a biomedical researcher or clinician, or other)
- If you are an investigator, please indicate your main area of research interest, including whether your focus is basic, translational, or clinical research
- Your name and email address
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