ODS, NCI research grants
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Applications for R01, R21 grants to conduct "innovative preclinical and clinical research to determine how diet and dietary factors impact DNA methylation and other epigenetic processes involved with cancer prevention" requested by ODS, National Cancer Institute in recent RFA. Collaboration between nutrition and epigenetic/ DNA methylation experts "to study bioactive food components with cancer preventative properties" is encouraged. NCI will fund seven to 10 grants in FY 2004 with a total of $2.5 mil; ODS will offer $800,000 for three or four grants that year. Letters of intent are due by Feb. 18, applications one month later. Under a separate but related RFA, researchers "can extend the goals of active grants to include studies related to the impact of diet and nutrition on epigenetic events"...