Cancer Currents for January 2007
News and Notes in Detail
ACS Institutional Research Grants Available
Norris Cotton Cancer Center is pleased to announce that funds for seed money grants are again available from our American Cancer Society (ACS) Institutional Research Grant [ACS IRG]. Applications will be accepted until January 5, 2007, and will be reviewed for funding priority by the local ACS/IRG Review Committee.
The principal purpose of these grants is to support studies undertaken by investigators who are early in their careers and need pilot data before submitting individual research grant applications. Applicants must not have received prior R01 support from the NIH (or comparable support from NSF, ACS), unless the initial grant was not renewed. They must not hold an academic rank above Assistant Professor. Instructors conducting independent research are eligible. Research associates and postdoctoral fellows are not eligible.
Up to $30,000 may be requested, primarily to pay for necessary supplies, reagents, animals, and the like. Funds may also be used to cover costs for technical assistance such as electron microscopy or cytofluorographic studies, but major salary support for technicians is not allowed. No part of the principal investigator's salary will be provided. The award may not be used to augment programs already funded within a laboratory or group.
New this year is a specific funding category for research in the special interest area of psychosocial and behavioral research, health policy research, or health services research, cancer in the poor and underserved, and childhood cancer.
We encourage applicants to discuss their plans with more senior faculty from the Cancer Center and, when appropriate, to seek biostatistical advice before submitting a proposal.
Please download the application from the website, complete, and submit electronically to Heather.A.Arnold@Dartmouth.EDU by January 5, 2007. If you have any questions, please contact Richard Lucius at 653-3636.
ACS Grant Application [pdf]
New Nursing Director on One West
Lori Profota, MS, RN, NP-C has accepted the Nursing Director position for inpatient oncology nursing and radiation oncology nursing, replacing Marilyn Bedell who will retire in February after 35 years at DHMC. Profota is currently the Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist on One West. Prior to returning to the Cancer Center and DHMC, Ms. Profota worked for the St. Anthony Hospital System in Denver Colorado. She has experience as a nurse practitioner, nursing clinical faculty, a nurse manager in an emergency department, and as a flight nurse. She began her career as a staff nurse on the oncology unit here and has continued to support oncology nursing throughout her career.
New Breast Cancer Surgeon
Kari M. Rosenkranz, MD, who completed her residency training at DHMC, has returned to the department of Surgical Oncology at DHMC and Norris Cotton Cancer Center. She specializes in breast cancer surgery and employs the latest techniques in partial mastectomy, skin-sparing mastectomy, and sentinel node biopsy. Dr. Rosenkranz recently completed a one-year fellowship in Breast Surgery at The University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She will be seeing patients in the Comprehensive Breast Program in Lebanon, and at Norris Cotton Cancer Center • Manchester.
Head and Neck Cancer Clinic in Manchester
Norris Cotton Cancer Center • Manchester now offers a Head and Neck Cancer Clinic at on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Otolaryngologist Joseph A. Paydarfar, MD, provides consultations, outpatient procedures, and follow-up care for adult head and neck cancer and reconstructive surgery patients. The Head and Neck Cancer Clinic in Manchester will be limited to adult patients. Referrals from ENT physicians in the Southern Region, as well as referrals from non-ENT providers who have patients with a new diagnosis of head and neck cancer or who have a suspicious neck mass, hoarseness, or require head and neck reconstructive surgery, can be scheduled to see Dr. Paydarfar in Manchester by calling Bonnie Haubrich at 603-650-8112.
Regional Cancer Program Welcomes Dr. Schell
Frank Schell, MD, has joined the Cancer Center’s Regional Program to provide medical oncology care at Norris Cotton Cancer Center • North in St. Johnsbury, at DHMC in Lebanon, and at our outreach cancer clinic at Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont, NH. Dr. Schell's clinical focus in Lebanon will be prostate cancer. Dr. Schell completed his internship and fellowship training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, and at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He practiced in a large private oncology practice in both Houston and San Antonio, Texas, and was with the General Internal Medicine group, Associates in Medicine, at Valley Regional Hospital prior to joining the Cancer Center.
Radiation Oncology Services in Southern Vermont
Andrew Young, MD, has joined Norris Cotton Cancer Center and its Regional Cancer Program to provide Radiation Oncology services at a new outreach location, Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center in Bennington, VT. Dr. Young received his medical training at MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed his residency in Radiation Oncology at Hahnemann University.
Johnson & Johnson Seed Grant Program
The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) - Dartmouth Seed Grant Program offers support for translational work on research projects that have generated novel innovations and have the potential to become high-impact medical technologies with promising commercial potential. Consideration of proposals began in December, and awards will be granted on a rolling basis until the fund is fully committed. Funding requests must be accompanied by a plan of proposed technical work. Applicants should specify a program term commensurate with the technical or proof-of-principal objectives of the proposal, and in all cases should include a specific timeline of milestones tied to planned expenditure patterns. Applications may request up to approximately $100,000 in direct costs. There will be no institutional overhead, and principal investigator salaries are not allowed. There will be a two-stage application process: a preliminary application and an invited formal application. The preliminary application may be completed on-line at https://www.jnjcosat.com/cosat_page?id=278 or submitted via email to Gregg.Fairbrothers@dartmouth.edu. Upon invitation, applicants may submit a full application. The full application will be submitted electronically through a J&J website, which can be found at https://www.jnjcosat.com/cosat_page?id=278.
Grants.gov Training Reminder
The February 5, 2007 deadline for all NIH R01 electronic proposal submissions is fast approaching. After this date NIH will no longer accept any competing R01 applications submitted on paper. The Office of Sponsored Projects is offering training sessions through the month of January to familiarize people with the new grants.gov application package, SF 424 (R&R). The current training schedule can be found at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~osp/news/bulletins/gdgTraining.html
