This administrative supplement funding opportunity announcement is part of the Cancer Moonshot initiative to accelerate cancer research, and was developed in response to a recommendation from the Blue Ribbon Panel of experts charged with advising the National Cancer Advisory Board on the exceptional
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scientific opportunities that could be accelerated through this initiative.
As part of the Cancer Moonshot initiative, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) created the Patient-Derived Xenograft (PDX) Development and Trial Centers Research Network (PDXNet), a collaborative network of centers of excellence focused on using patient-derived xenografts and other patient-derived models to accelerate the development of NCI investigational new drug (IND) agents (i.e., those that the NCI is developing in collaboration with pharmaceutical partners) in NCI-sponsored early phase clinical trials.
This FOA supports supplemental funds to current NCI-funded research projects for new interdisciplinary collaborations between non-PDXNet investigators and PDXNet investigators to perform research within the scientific scope(s) of the parent grant and/or cooperative agreement award(s) that will lead to improved pre-clinical evaluations of novel therapeutic concepts using the large-scale PDX model collections of PDXNet, and that could ultimately be tested in NCI-sponsored clinical trials.