Cancer - TRANSCAN fourth Joint Transnational Call

The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding) and ZonMw invite applications for the fourth Joint Transnational Call of Translational Cancer Research (TRANSCAN). Deadline for submitting pre-proposals is March 16, 2015. KWF Kankerbestrijding and ZonMw are partners of the ERA-NET on TRANSCAN. The topic of the fourth call is: "Translational research on human tumour heterogeneity to understand and overcome recurrence and resistance to therapy".

KWF and ZonMw have commited respectively € 1,000,000 and € 300,000. Eligible candidates for The Netherlands are academic, clinical or public health sector research groups. The TRANSCAN ERA-NET has been established with the ultimate goal of coordinating the research efforts and funding programmes of EU Member States and Associated Countries in translational cancer research.

TRANSCAN JTC 2014 aims at supporting transnational innovative projects in cancer prevention, focusing on Translational research on human tumour heterogeneity to understand and overcome recurrence and resistance to therapy. Projects must be based on novel ideas stemming from consolidated previous results, with a strong translational research orientation. The proposed work should be clearly oriented towards a rapid translation of the existing and newly acquired knowledge into individual- and patient-tailored interventions at highest potential for control of cancer recurrence and resistance to therapies.

The electronic submission system will open February 16, 2015.
Deadline for submitting full proposals is July 7, 2015.