Call for Applications: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Reach Awards

Call for Applications: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Reach Awards Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) evolved from the front yard lemonade stand of cancer patient Alexandra “Alex” Scott (1996-2004) into a national fundraising movement to raise awareness and find cures for all childhood cancers. Reach Awards are designed to move hypothesis-driven research toward the clinic. A successful application will identify an unmet clinical need relevant to the care of patients with pediatric cancer and describe how the work performed will allow for the translation of hypothesis-driven research to the clinic keeping broader clinical testing and implementation in view. All Reach Award applications must be received by May 30, 2014 - 11:59 PM ET. Maximum of $250,000 in total costs awarded over two years.  All applications must be submitted using ALSF’s online submission process. The purpose of the Reach Award is to advance ALSF’s mission to find cures and better treatments for childhood cancers by providing support to move hypothesis-driven research into the clinic. Significant barriers exist that impede the translation of innovative and important ideas to the clinic. The Reach Award seeks to remove one of these barriers by providing support for important pre-clinical projects that are necessary to move a study from the pre-clinical arena into a clinical trial. Thus, the goal of this award is to support selected “late...
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