The Texas Regional Excellence in Cancer (TREC) award is a multicomponent award designed to strengthen cancer research at institutions located in regions of Texas that have historically received low levels of peer-reviewed cancer research funding.
Donor Name: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
State: Texas
City: Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,200,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Academic Research Program Priorities
The Texas Legislature has charged the CPRIT Oversight Committee with establishing program priorities on an annual basis. These priorities are intended to provide transparency regarding how the Oversight Committee directs the orientation of the agency’s funding portfolio.
Established Principles:
- Scientific excellence and impact on cancer
- Increasing the life sciences infrastructure
The program priorities for academic research adopted by the Oversight Committee include funding projects that address the following:
- Recruitment of outstanding cancer researchers to Texas
- Investment in core facilities
- A broad range of innovative, investigator-initiated research projects
- Implementation research to accelerate the adoption and deployment of evidence-based prevention and screening interventions
- Computational biology and analytic methods
- Childhood cancers
- Hepatocellular cancer
- Expansion of access to innovative clinical trials
The TREC award is a CPRIT mechanism designed to strengthen the cancer research environment and to increase the number and quality of scientifically meritorious cancer research projects at institutions in geographic regions of Texas that have historically received low levels of peer reviewed cancer research funding. A high priority is the development of cancer research programs addressing the cancer challenges affecting regions of Texas without a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center.
Funding Information
The maximum duration for this award mechanism is 5 years. Applicants may request a maximum of $1,200,000 in total costs annually.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility to apply for a TREC award is open to a Texas institution of higher learning whose campus is located 100 miles or greater from 1 of the 4 Texas NCI-designated cancer centers located in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
- Applicants must complete a preapplication process.
- An institution may submit only 1 application under this RFA during this funding cycle.
- For purposes of this RFA, an institution is defined as that component of a university system that has a President.
- An institution with an active TREC award from CRPIT is not eligible to respond to this RFA.
- A university and a health science center that are components of the same university system and share a contiguous or near-contiguous campus are strongly encouraged to submit a single application that will leverage their combined assets to build a cancer research program to serve their region.
- Academic health science centers with multiple campuses are eligible to participate in a single application under this RFA.
- The Principal Investigator (PI) must be the director of the center and must have a doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent, and must reside in Texas during the time the research that is the subject of the grant is conducted. The PI should hold a full-time faculty position, at the level of associate or full professor or the equivalent. Ideally, an institution will identify an established investigator with a record of peer-reviewed funding to lead the TREC.
- This award must be directed by the PI. Multiple PIs are not permitted.
- TREC PI, research project leaders, and core resource must be located on a TREC-eligible campus located 100 miles or greater from an existing NCI-designated cancer center.
- Collaborations with Texas-based institutions to provide access to technology and counsel are permitted and can be supported with TREC funds through subcontracts. Texas institutions are eligible to hold subcontracts with multiple TREC grantees.
- Collaborators may or may not reside in Texas; however, collaborators who do not reside in Texas are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds. Collaborators should have specific and well-defined roles. Subcontracting and collaborating organizations may include public, not-for-profit, and for-profit entities. Such entities may be located outside of the State of Texas, but non-Texas-based organizations are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds. In no event shall equipment purchased under this award leave the State of Texas.
For more information, visit CPRIT.
