HDRP Newsletter, November 2018

Message from the HDRP Associate Director

We are very pleased to announce that awards for two HDRP-led Cancer Moonshot^SM initiatives were made in late September. As mentioned in previous newsletters, our staff worked on several of the recent RFAs that directly address priorities in accelerating cancer research.

The first, Improving the Management of Symptoms During and Following Cancer Treatment (IMPACT), is intended to accelerate the clinical adoption of integrated systems for monitoring and managing common disease- and treatment-related symptoms. Awards under the IMPACT funding announcement were made to Research Triangle Institute, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern University, and a collaboration among six health care systems led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

The second, Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and follow-up through Implementation Science (ACCSIS), is intended to generate effective implementation strategies that can substantially address disparities in colorectal screening and follow-up. Awards under the ACCSIS funding announcement were made to Research Triangle Institute, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina, and a collaboration between University of Kentucky and the Ohio State University.

Fiscal year 2019 brings continued opportunities to engage in Moonshot activities with the reissuance of the ACCSIS notice of funding opportunity as well as the Approaches to Identify and Care for Individuals with Inherited Cancer Syndromes notice of funding opportunity. Both of these announcements can be found below in the funding section.

We are excited to see these Moonshot initiatives come to fruition and look forward to sharing news of their progress with you in future newsletters.

Paul Jacobsen, PhD

Funding

• Approaches to Identify and Care for Individuals with Inherited Cancer Syndromes (U01 Clinical Trial Required), RFA-CA-19-017

  Contact: Erica Breslau
  Application Due Date: January 9, 2019
  Archived webinar available here.

• *NEW* Increasing Uptake of Evidence-Based Screening in Diverse Adult Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), PA-18-932

  Contact: Erica Breslau
  Next Submission Date: February 5, 2019
  Expiration Date: January 8, 2022

• *NEW* Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and follow-up through Implementation Science (ACCSIS)(UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required), RFA-CA-19-018

  Contact: Sarah Kobrin
  Application Due Date: February 11, 2019
  Webinar announcement coming soon.

• Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), PAR-18-869

  Contact: Scott Rogers
  Next Submission Date: March 6, 2019
  Expiration Date: March 9, 2021
  Archived webinar available here, with Deputy Associate Director Ann Geiger discussing HDRP interests.

For more information about funding, please visit our website.

Grants Announcements

New NIH Peer Review Videos for Applicants

Includes videos about 'What Happens to your Grant Application' and 'Top 10 Peer Review Q&As'.

CSR Insider's Guide to Peer Review for Applicants

The NCI Center for Scientific Review shares insights on developing grant applications that are highly competitive in the peer review process.

Upcoming Events and Presentations

• 11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health

  December 3-5, 2018
  Washington, DC

Data and Resources

• Updated SEER-Medicare Linkage

  The SEER-Medicare linkage update has been completed. For the first time, the linkage includes assessments from nursing homes (Minimum Data Set- MDS) and home health care (Home Health Outcome and Assessment Information Set- OASIS). Requests are now being accepted to use the new data, which include more than 2.3 million cancer cases diagnosed through 2015 and one million non-cancer controls who have been linked to their Medicare claims through 2016.

Career and Training Opportunities

*COMING SOON* NCI/AcademyHealth Healthcare Delivery Research Visiting Scholars Program

Next application cycle opens January 21, 2019