NCI Will Participate in RFA-AT-11-001 “Mechanistic Research on CAM Natural Products (R01)”

Notice Number:  NOT-CA-10-037

Release Date:  September 23, 2010  

RFA-AT-11-001

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

PURPOSE

This Notice is to inform potential applicants that, effective immediately, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), (http://www.nci.nih.gov) is joining the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), (http://www.nccam.nih.gov) and Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS/NIH), (http://ods.od.nih.gov) in participating on the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) RFA-AT-11-001 “Mechanistic Research on CAM Natural Products (R01). The NCI does not assign any specific set-aside funds to this FOA. Although the financial plans of the NCI provide support for this program, awards pursuant to NCI joining RFA-AT-11-001 are contingent upon the availability of funds and the receipt of a sufficient number of meritorious applications proposing projects relevant to the programmatic priorities of the NCI.

Areas of particular research interest pertinent to NCI participation in RFA-AT-11-001 include but are not limited to:

• Uncovering novel mechanisms of action of natural products that are relevant to cancer prevention and/or treatment (these studies may focus on dietary components as well as other natural products);
• Exploring the mechanistic bases for combining natural products/food components with conventional approaches to cancer prevention and/or treatment; and
• Identifying potential, mechanism-based biomarkers predicting beneficial or harmful effects (in terms of cancer prevention, treatment efficacy or cancer risk modulation) by dietary constituents or other natural products of interest to complementary and alternative medicine.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number(s)
93.393, 93.394, 93.395, 93.396

The NCI scientific contact for RFA-AT-11-001 will be:

Young S. Kim, Ph.D.
Nutritional Science Research Group
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
6130 Executive Boulevard
Room 3156
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-496-0126
Fax: 301-480-3925
Email: yk47s@nih.gov

All other areas of this FOA remain unchanged.

Please direct all inquiries to:

Young S. Kim, Ph.D.
Nutritional Science Research Group
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
6130 Executive Boulevard
Room 3156
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-496-0126
Fax: 301-480-3925
Email: yk47s@nih.gov