Month: December 2024

NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) program

Background: In 1991, Congress, at the urging of cancer patients advocates, requested that the NCI to establish the SPORE program—a team-science, multidisciplinary program of cancer translational research—with $20 million to bridge the gap between research in basic cancer biology and clinical studies in the four most prevalent organ-site malignancies in the United States: breast, prostate,…Continue Reading NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) program

NIH Funding Opportunity: PAR-25-330, “Role of Defective Proviruses in HIV Persistence”

The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support research to define the impact of defective HIV proviruses on mechanisms of HIV persistence and pathogenesis during antiretroviral treatment and their potential deleterious effects on HIV cure strategies and interference with HIV-specific molecular assays….Continue Reading NIH Funding Opportunity: PAR-25-330, “Role of Defective Proviruses in HIV Persistence”