AGA-Torrey Coast Foundation Fellowship-to-Faculty Transition Award in Upper GI Cancer
Forecasted
AGA-Torrey Coast Foundation Fellowship-to-Faculty Transition Award in Upper GI Cancer supports fellows’ clinical or translational gastroesophageal cancer research to advance independent research careers.
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Funder: American Gastroenterological Association
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: One award of $130,000 over two years ($65,000 annually)
Summary: Protects fellows’ time for clinical or translational gastroesophageal cancer research and career development toward scientific independence.
Key Information: Applicants must dedicate at least 50% effort to the project and cannot have permanent faculty commitments before the award starts.
Description
The AGA Research Foundation administers this award with support from Torrey Coast Foundation to help clinical and postdoctoral fellows transition toward independent research careers in gastroenterology. It protects research time to generate preliminary data, gain experience and become more competitive for academic research appointments. Projects must address the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment or patient outcomes of gastroesophageal cancer.
Supported work is clinical or translational. Clinical research includes direct contact with human subjects, analysis of clinical data and health care delivery research. Translational research turns laboratory, clinic or community observations into interventions that improve diagnostics and therapeutics. Human biospecimens, human data and preclinical in vivo models may be used when they directly test human disease-relevant biology. Mentoring and a research career development plan are central to the award; exclusively basic research is excluded.
