Apply for a research grant from the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation

• Investigators who have a doctoral-level degree and a full-time faculty position or equivalent at a college, university, medical school, or eligible not-for-profit research organization globally.
• Junior investigators with an interest in a career focus in mesothelioma are strongly encouraged to apply to this RFA. As part of their application, they should identify an established mesothelioma researcher as their mentor and provide a career development and mentorship plan in the context of their application.

Take Note of the Following:

• All applications need to focus on pleural and/or peritoneal mesothelioma and should address at least one of the 2024 Areas of Interest (listed below).
• All projects must be feasible within the timeline and budgetary constraints of the current RFA.
• All other funding, overlapping and/or supplemental funding, for the proposed project must be disclosed as part of the application.

Areas of Interest 2024 (not listed in order of priority):

• Novel therapies for mesothelioma for both pleural and peritoneal (focus on – targeted therapies, combination immunotherapy, cellular therapy, virotherapy)
• Health-related quality of life assessment incorporating the social determinants of health (SDOH) specific to mesothelioma patient care, side effect management, mental health care impact on patient and/or caregiver outcomes, and other related topics.
• Novel strategies for screening and early detection
• Novel strategies for risk assessment and prognosis stratification
• Immune mediated complications of immunotherapy in mesothelioma (monitoring, early detection and management)
• Improving personalization of therapies (gender and racial differences, targeted therapies and predictive biomarkers)
• Mechanisms of treatment resistance/failure
• Mesothelioma biology and etiology (disease-defining molecular pathways, cellular biology, and/or tumor microenvironment)

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