The total value of the Irish Cancer Society-IACR Translational & Clinical Scholarship 2024 is €180,000. This budget should cover the costs for stipend, fees, running costs, equipment, training, dissemination and travel, mobility placement, and PPI. For more detailspertaining to the budget, please see Appendix 1.
The scholarship will last 3 to 4 years at a full-time capacity or at a part-time capacity, over a maximum of 6 years.
Please note the following budget stipulations that are specific to this Scholarship Call:
- PhD stipend is funded at a minimum rate of €22,000 per year.
- A minimum provision of €1,500 must be allocated to support Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) in the proposed research project.
- Funding of €5,000 is ring-fenced for a mobility element (Section 1.6).
- A Translational Lab-Based Consumables Ringfenced Budget of €40,000 is available for this call only, to be used for budgeting of wet-lab materials and consumables.
- Costs for attendance at the IACR Annual Conference must be included for each year of this Scholarship in the Travel and Dissemination budget. Costs for presentation of research from this scholarship must be included for at least 1 year (e.g., poster printing).
Detailed budget guidelines are available in Appendix 1 and the Application Guidelines for this award, available to download below.