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A -- OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM SOL 074&&&-9708-0002 POC CRAIG D. LEBO, Contracting Officer 301-619-2036 (Site Code DAMD17) The United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), through this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), is soliciting proposals for integrated multidisciplinary research efforts to develop novel ovarian cancer prevention strategies at National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCCs). The overall goal of this funding effort is to promote research directed toward preventing ovarian cancer. Within this context, the objectives of the USAMRMC Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) are: (1) to advance primary and secondary prevention through enhanced understanding of ovarian cancer development and progression, (2) to engage experts from multiple disciplines in genuinely collaborative efforts, and (3) to foster the development of a sustained national ovarian cancer research enterprise. The USAMRMC encourages the scientific community to undertake innovative research to prevent ovarian cancer by calling for proposals that will foster new directions, address neglected issues, and build long-term ovarian cancer research capabilities through multi-investigator and multi- institutional networking. The central themes of the Program are innovation and collaboration. Scientific ventures that represent unattempted avenues of investigation or novel applications of existing technologies are strongly encouraged. In addition, the USAMRMC also encourages collaborations with minority institutions and proposals addressing the needs of minority, elderly, low-income, rural, and other under-represented populations. As directed in the Congressional language for this appropriation, the programmatic strategy is being implemented by this call for proposals from CCCs. The awards are intended to fund genuine multidisciplinary collaborations to develop strategies to precent epithelial ovarian cancer. There is a total of $6M available for this program. All proposal will be evaluated in a two-tiered review process consisting of scientific merit review (peer review) in the first tier and programmatic relevance review in the second tier. While scientific merit is an important requirement for award, proposals that receive high scientific merit scores in peer review but are judged to have low programmatic relevance are less likely to be selected for funding. Proposals are due at Fort Detrick, MD no later than 4:00 p.m. ET on 11 November 1997. For more information or to receive a copy of the Broad Agency Announcement: (1) Download the document from the world wide web -- http://mrmc-rad6.army.mil/documents.html or (2) fax a request to 301-682-5521. (0247)

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