Research Fellowship Award

Funding Source: Funded by the ONS Foundation through an unrestricted grant from Genentech BioOncology.

Award: The one-year award is for $20,000. The fellow receives up to $18,000 to cover research-related expenses. The mentor or the mentor's institution will receive a $2,000 award in the form of an unrestricted honorarium to cover the mentor's consultative or research-related expenses and/or other institutional costs.

Purpose: To support short-term oncology research training and mentorship. Specific activities that are supported by this funding are listed in the application.

Eligibility: Fellowships are available for both beginning and established researchers. A beginning researcher is within eight years of completing a terminal degree, or within five years of initiating independent research within a field of inquiry and has not received independent extramural funding in the area of interest. An established researcher has an established track record of independent (extramural) research funding and publications.

Registered nurses with a doctoral degree and an interest in oncology are eligible to be funded to work with a senior investigator who has an existing research program relevant to oncology nursing.

Online Application Deadline: July 11, 2011

The application for this award is under development and will be available soon.

If you have further questions, please contact the ONS Research Team at research@ons.org.