Call for Service Provision: Revolutionising Cancer Patient Care

Deadline Date: August 28, 2024

Donor Name: canSERV

Grant Size: $500,000 to $1 million

The canSERV is pleased to announce the launch of its 3rd Challenge-Driven Call on “Revolutionising Cancer Patient Care: Innovative Approaches to Research and Clinical Trials for Improved Treatment Outcomes”.

The primary objective of this call is to improving treatment and patients’ outcome through innovative ways to address clinical trials and research.

Topics

• ​Projects submitted in response to this call should focus on one of the two topics:
  • Tailoring research to address the different age groups, paediatric patients, and elderly patients, to ensure optimal treatment outcomes across diverse populations.
  • Designing and developing improved clinical trials to address diverse populations and expanding the scope to incorporate broader representation of patients from EU, including efforts to match control groups, thus advancing trial efficiency and equity in treatment access.

Funding Information

• The indicative overall budget for this call is EUR 600.000.
• Free of charge access to canSERV service(s) (equipment, expertise, resources) offered by the canSERV consortium.
• Transnational services comprising the following fields: disease models; advanced cutting-edge imaging and structural biology technologies; biomarkers research and development; novel therapeutics developments; complex clinical trial design and support; personalised oncology implementation pipelines, recommendations and regulatory support; open digital research services; access to human samples and data; ethical, legal and socio-economic (ELSI) dimensions and training.

Who can apply?

• Researchers based in European and non-European countries, including junior and senior individual researchers, academic institutes, biotech/pharmaceutical SMEs, groups of scientists, networks and consortia from public and private entities.
• Affiliation
  • Applicants must be affiliated with an organisation in or outside the European Union.
• Transnationality
  • This grant only supports TNA as described below.
• Transnational Access allows researchers (users, applicants) free of charge to specific research services (equipment, expertise, resources) offered by the canSERV consortium members` research infrastructure facilities.
• Transnational access can be:
  • In person (physical access), with users visiting the research infrastructure facility/installation and receiving the service “hands-on”, including the advantage of direct collaboration.
  • Remotely (remote access), with research infrastructure resources and services offered online/remotely. This can span from just sending requested sample materials, to more comprehensive research tasks done by the research infrastructure staff on your behalf.

For more information, visit canSERV.