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Guidance and Advice
R25E
Cancer Education Grant Program
National Cancer Institute
Table of Contents (You may go to any of the sections by "clicking"
on the link below): The Guidance and Advice provided below are derived from the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) Program Announcement in the NIH Guide. Complete
information about this announcement can be accessed directly at the
following two website addresses: II. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND:
The Cancer Education Grant (R25E) Program (CEGP) of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) is a flexible, curriculum-driven program aimed
at developing and sustaining innovative educational approaches that
ultimately will have an impact on reducing cancer incidence, mortality,
and morbidity, as well as on improving the quality of life of cancer
patients. The CEGP will accept investigator-initiated grant applications
that pursue a wide spectrum of objectives ranging from short courses;
to the development of new curriculum in academic institutions; to national
forums and seminar series; to hands-on workshop experiences for the
continuing education of health care professionals, biomedical researchers,
and the lay community; to structured short-term research experiences
designed to motivate high school, college, medical, dental, and other
health professional students to pursue careers in cancer research. Education
grants can focus on education activities before, during, and after the
completion of a doctoral level degree (e.g. Ph.D., M.D., D.P.H., D.D.S.,
D.N.S.) as long as they address a need that is not fulfilled adequately
by any other grant mechanism available at the National Institutes of
Health and are dedicated to areas of particular concern to the National
Cancer Program. The CEGP encourages innovative uses of the R25E
grant to explore new educational approaches that will help promote progress
in preventing and curing cancer.
General Content of the Program:
The CEGP accomplishes its objectives by providing institutions a wide
range of opportunities to develop and sustain distinctive curriculum-driven
programs that focus on various educational activities. The target audiences
for these programs can range from: biomedical researchers; health professionals;
medical, dental, nursing, and other health professional students; college
and high school students; to members of the lay community. Some examples
of CEGP type projects include the following:
The above examples suggest the flexibility of the R25E education
grant to accomplish both short-term and long-term objectives. In some
cases, these awards have short-term objectives to help develop, through
scholarly efforts, new education approaches which the institution will
standardize and assume responsibility for in the future (e.g., education
programs in pain management and palliative care, development of nutrition
curriculum in academic institutions). In other cases, these grants stabilized
and strengthen activities that are more suitable for long-term support
(e.g., Short-term research experiences to motivate medical, nursing,
public health and other health professionals to pursue cancer research
careers)
Any not-for-profit or for-profit organization engaged in health-related
education, research, or training and located in the United States, its
possessions, or territories may apply for a CEGP. If any foreign institution
wishes to apply, it must first receive a formal waiver of the above
requirement in writing from the National Cancer Institute.
Education grants use the R25E grant mechanism, which is a not
considered to be typical research instrument, but it does involve experiments
in education that require a plan for evaluating the degree of success
or failure. All applicants may request up to five years of support in
a single grant period in order to develop or maintain a specific education
program. Short-term studies limited to five years or less with no plans
for renewal are encouraged. Long-term programs, however, may receive
continued support in additional increments of five years or less. In
every case, the renewable nature of the grant and its maximum duration
will be determined by peer reviewers.
Applications may not exceed $300,000 in direct costs for any single
year unless there is explicit written permission of the NCI. In general,
allowable costs must be consistent with PHS policy and recommended by
peer reviewers. These costs include but are not limited to the following:
supplies, personnel costs, student compensation (when appropriate),
consultant costs, equipment, travel, sub-contractual costs, other expenses
and other student costs (when appropriate). Faculty members participating
in the design and implementation of education programs can request with
proper justification the percent of their time devoted to curriculum
design and specialized organizational, coordinating, and implementation
activities which are essential to achieving the goals of their proposed
education program.
Indirect costs are payable at the rate of 8 percent of total modified
direct costs. The 8 percent indirect cost rate will apply to all
sub-contracts on any R25E award. R25Es are not training grants.
This means that traditional mentor-student type activities are not
allowable costs.
For appropriate advice and specific instruction regarding the above
and other budgetary and administrative policies that you must follow
in managing this award, please refer to section XI. INQUIRIES.
VI. SPECIAL PROVISIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
This mechanism is entirely flexible within the general boundaries of
different education concepts. There are no special provisions of the
NCI but there is one requirement:
The NCI requires a special section titled "Evaluation Plan"
that clearly denotes how the proposed education program will be evaluated
for success or failure based on its purpose and objectives.
SUBMISSION, REVIEW, AND AWARD OF COMPETING APPLICATIONS A. Application Receipt, Review and Award Dates: The receipt dates for all NEW R25E education grant applications
are February 1, June 1 and October 1 and for all COMPETING RENEWAL,
SUPPLEMENTAL AND AMENDED R25E applications are March 1, July 1, and
November 1. Initial review is usually completed in June, October and
February, respectively. Review by the National Cancer Advisory Board
is usually completed in October, January and May, respectively. The
earliest possible award dates are in December, April and July.
B. Where to Send the Application:
The original and three copies of the application must
be submitted to the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), NIH to the following
address:
Center for Scientific Review To expedite the review process, which will be conducted by the NCI,
two additional copies should be sent to:
Referral Officer Rockville, MD 20852 (express/courier service)
C. Format for Submitting the Application:
Applications should be submitted using the instructions provided in
the Form PHS 398 application kit. These application kits are available
on the following NIH website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html.
Forms are also available at most institutional offices of sponsored
research or from the Division of Extramural Outreach and Information
Resources, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, MSC
7910, Phone (301) 435-0174, Fax: (301) 480-0525, e-mail: GrantsInfo@nih.gov.
R25E Cancer Education grant applications should reasonably
accommodate the Form PHS 398 instructions provided either for research
grants, the special instructions for NRSA Awards (pages V1-V8, pages
NN, OO and PP)or some form of hybrid of these instructions, depending
upon the nature of proposal, as follows:
Because of the wide spectrum of possible ways to use the R25 grant,
all applicants are invited to contact NCI staff before preparing an
application (see section XI. INQUIRIES (R25E)).
ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS/APPLICATION FOR CONTINUATION
Progress Reports should reasonably accommodate the Form PHS 2590, which
is available at the following NIH website address: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/2590/2590.htm.
This form is also available at the other sources noted above for the
Form PHS 398. This accommodation should also parallel the organization
of your competing application to enable easy monitoring of progress
by NCI staff.
The National Institutes of Health should mail you the face page for
this application together with return mail labels four months
prior to the anniversary of the date of the grant. Look for this notification;
if you do not receive it, call the NIH Data Management Branch at (301)
435-0896. You must submit the application two months prior to
the anniversary date of the grant. If for some reason time becomes an
issue, contact the National Cancer Institute (see XI. INQUIRIES).
VIII. REVIEW PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA:
A. Review Procedure:
Upon receipt, applications will be reviewed both by the Center for
Scientific Review (CSR) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for
completeness and for conformance to all eligibility requirements and
special requirements (See section III. ELIGIBILITY and section
VI. SPECIAL PROVISIONS AND REQUIRMENTS above). Incomplete applications
will be returned to the applicant without further consideration.
B. Review Criteria:
In general, the following criteria will be used in evaluating R25 education
grants:
Awards are made based on the availability of funds each fiscal year,
the degree of merit as determined by peer reviewers, and the program
priorities of the National Cancer Institute.
X. COMMON QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
Because the R25E is so versatile and flexible, it is difficult to define
commonly asked questions and answers that would be generally helpful
to the average applicant. We recommend that you make inquiries as instructed
in section XI. INQUIRIES (R25E) below.
We have tried to provide you with the most complete information possible
about the R25E. If you need information and explanation concerning
the R25E, please make your inquiries as follows:
A. Programmatic or scientific issues: B. Fiscal Issues: |
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