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Action Cancer is a Northern Ireland cancer charity that relies entirely on voluntary donations. Founded in 1973, it offers awareness and health promotion, free early-detection clinics for men and women concerned about cancer and a support service for cancer patients and their families. Action Cancer also provides funding for research at local universities.
Action Cancer Project Grant
Subjects: Cancer-related projects
Purpose: To help researchers in Northern Ireland carry out significant cancer-related projects by contributing to salaries, the purchase of materials and equipments and to other appropriate costs
Eligibility: Researchers must be working in Northern Ireland
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Project grant
Value: Up to £45,000 per year for up to 3 years
Length of Study: 3 years
Frequency: Every 2 years
Country of Study: United Kingdom
Application Procedure: Awards are advertised in the local press in March. Applicants must submit a form, based on which a decision is taken by the Action Cancer Scientific and Research Committee, which also takes advice from external reviewers
Closing Date: Early May
Funding: Private
Contributor: Voluntary donations
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(2019). Action Cancer. In: The Grants Register 2020. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95943-3_13
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