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W81XWH-21-PCRP-DSA: DoD Prostate Cancer, Data Science Award

Closed Closed July 29, 2021 Opportunity W81XWH-21-PCRP-DSA ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: DoW Breast Cancer, Clinical Research Extension Award (HT942526BCRPCREA2). Status: Closes November 18, 2026 (11 days left). It is in our archive of Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA notices from 2021.

• Total funding$4.8 million
• Expected awards3
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

• Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Most of the program's money (59% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The FY21 PCRP Data Science Award mechanism supports research where quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and/or systems are developed and/or used to obtain knowledge and insight from large and/or complex sets of prostate cancer data. If successful, the studies will enable progress towards addressing one or more of the FY21 PCRP Overarching Challenges. It is expected that any tools or data sets generated by this award will be made available for public use. This mechanism is intended to fund research built upon the logic, concepts, and methods of one or more of the following research areas as they pertain to prostate cancer: • Computational biology • Bioinformatics • Artificial intelligence and machine learning • Epidemiology • Analysis of –omics data • Medical Imaging • Digital Pathology • Analysis of other clinically annotated datasets Applications may combine diverse data types for integrative analysis to increase knowledge about prostate cancer with respect to the FY21 PCRP Overarching Challenges. Applications that propose to develop resources or tools that allow research, clinical care, and patient community access to standardized and harmonized datasets for real-time clinical care applications are of particular interest, however this award must not be used to support the development of new datasets. Studies utilizing data derived from large patient studies that include long-term health records or repositories with well-annotated and high-quality biospecimens are encouraged. The data set used in the study must be of sufficient size to provide appropriate analytical and statistical power. KEY FEATURES • Research Approach: Applications may propose development of a new data-science-driven tool or apply an existing tool or method to gather and analyze information from large data sets with the intent of advancing prostate cancer research and patient care relative to the FY21 PCRP Overarching Challenges. Applicants are encouraged to consider including plans for rigorous validation, benchmarking, comparisons, and/or evaluations to assess the quality or utility of the tools and/or approaches that will be used or developed under this award. Any data sets used in the study design must be from established, retrospective databases and be sufficient in size to provide appropriate analytical and statistical power. Prospective recruitment of human subjects and/or clinical trials are not allowed under this funding opportunity.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HT942526BCRPCREA2, which is open now.

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