If your query is not answered by these FAQs please get in touch email grants_admin@breastcancernow.org.
If your query is not answered by these FAQs please get in touch email grants_admin@breastcancernow.org.
Please contact us at grants_admin@breastcancernow.org – this is likely to be because you have more than one account.
Great, please contact our tissue bank team at tissue@breastcancernow.org as early as possible to ensure that they have what you need.
Yes - this is the total available for project grants and it must include at least one salary for a research support post to work directly on the research project.
No, this is fine if you can justify the costs. E.g. Animal experiments will typically carry you over that yearly limit. All costs should be fully justified.
Yes, you can apply for one Project and one PhD as lead applicant in the same round, but not two projects or two PhD’s. You can be a co-applicant and/or collaborator on as many applications as you want. If you are submitting two applications they need to be different, as the GC will not consider two applications proposing the same research.
If both applications are funded, you must choose which funding you take – we will not part fund with other funders. Please indicate on your application where it has been submitted and when the outcome will be known.
No - some projects cannot apply for ethics approval before funding is confirmed. If the ethics approval/animal licence is not in place the applicant needs to indicate in the relevant part of the application form when it will be applied for etc. We will need a copy of the approvals before the project starts, if the application is successful.
Please email grants_admin@breastcancernow.org and provide us with an abstract and your questions.
Yes, we welcome applications from those looking to move into Breast Cancer Research – it would help to show you have breast cancer expertise on your application to show that you have a good support network.
Yes – we welcome applications from early career researchers. You should have at least two years of Post-Doc experience before applying.
Yes.
Please contact grants_admin@breastcancernow.org to check on eligibility.
Yes, if their tenure covers the full length of the grant, but they cannot request their salary.
No - principal investigators must be based at a UK/Republic of Ireland university, hospital or research institute. However, we do allow international collaborators and co-applicants on our grants.
The funds will remain with the host institution. For any work taking place abroad, the overseas institution will request funds from the host institution. The host institution will then invoice Breast Cancer Now quarterly as normal.
The conference costs are a supplementary cost that must be included. These cannot be edited but can be used across the duration of the grant as you see fit. These have been included in year one so that they are included in the final total where, in the case of applying for a two-year grant, the third-year cost would be cut off if we spread it over three years.
Yes – these should be separated out from the basic salary and not included within it when inputting the figures for your requested salary.
No, in line with other members of the Association of Medical Research Charities, we will pay only the direct costs of research. Please check our guidelines and email grants_admin@breastcancernow.org if you are unsure about eligibility.
No.
No - projects must include a researcher's salary.
No, PhD studentship applications can only be submitted in our PhD studentship funding rounds.
Outcome announcement dates for ongoing funding rounds can be found on the funding scheme’s webpage.
You should aim to start the research as soon as possible, and no later than 9 months after the awards have been announced.
We welcome applications from a broad range of research fields, including clinical, biomedical, and psychosocial/behavioural studies, using both experimental and theoretical approaches. The key criterion is that the proposed research must demonstrate clear relevance to breast cancer, and a potential benefit to people affected by breast cancer. Please see our strategy with more details on priority areas. Alternatively, please get in contact with us at grants_admin@breastcancernow.org