National Cancer Institute

at the National Institutes of Health

Funding Opportunities in Symptom Management and Palliative Care Research

Updated: 03/25/2011

On this page:

Biobehavioral Research
Career Development
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Decision Making
Health Services Research
Pain
Physical Activity and Obesity
Quality of Life
Additional Resources at NCI
Additional Government Resources

Biobehavioral Research

PA-12-024 Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Primary Care (R01) ¹
PAR-12-035 Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03) ²
PA-11-180 Research on Ethical Issues in Biomedical, Social and Behavioral Research (R01) ³
PA-11-181 Research on Ethical Issues in Biomedical, Social, and Behaviora Research (R03) ⁴
PA-11-182 Research on Ethical Issues in Biomedical, Social, and Behavioral Research (R21) ⁵
PA-09-125 Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research (R01) ⁶
PA-09-126 Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research (R21) ⁷
PA-09-130 Exploratory Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R21) ⁸
PA-09-216 Mechanisms Underlying the Links between Psychosocial Stress, Aging, the Brain and the Body (R01) ⁹

Career Development

To find funding to support cancer research training and career development awards visit NCI's Center for Cancer Training ¹⁰

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

To find funding opportunities offered in alternative medicine visit NCI's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine Web Site ¹¹

Decision Making

Health Services Research

Pain

Physical Activity and Obesity

Quality of Life

Additional Resources at NCI

Additional Government Resources

EPEC™-O | Palliative Care Educational Materials ⁴⁷
EPEC™-O (Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Oncology) and EPEC™-O with American Indian and Alaska Native Cultural Considerations are free comprehensive multimedia curricula for health professionals caring for persons with cancer. The curricula is available as an online Self-Study Section of 3 plenary sessions and 15 content modules and as a CD-ROM you can order.
NCI Palliative Care Working Group ⁴⁸
Contacts for NCI palliative care funding opportunities and initiatives.
NIH Listserv: NCI-Sponsored Supportive Care Researchers ⁴⁹
Sign up to receive e-mail about new supportive care and symptom management funding opportunities.

Table of Links
¹	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-024.html
²	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-035.html
³	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-180.html
⁴	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-181.html
⁵	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-182.html
⁶	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-125.html
⁷	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-126.html
⁸	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-130.html
⁹	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-216.html
¹⁰	http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/cancertraining
¹¹	http://www.cancer.gov/cam/research_fundingopportunities.html
¹²	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-122.html
¹³	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-121.html
¹⁴	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-038.html
¹⁵	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-039.html
¹⁶	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-040.html
¹⁷	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-006.html
¹⁸	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-007.html
¹⁹	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-008.html
²⁰	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-082.html
²¹	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-083.html
²²	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-224.html
²³	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-225.html
²⁴	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-297.html
²⁵	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-298.html
²⁶	http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/nci_cancer_bulletin_090908
²⁷	http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/032012/page4
²⁸	http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/brp
²⁹	http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/ocs
³⁰	http://crchd.cancer.gov
³¹	http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/epeco
³²	http://healthservices.cancer.gov
³³	http://www.cancer.gov/cam
³⁴	http://outcomes.cancer.gov
³⁵	http://prevention.cancer.gov/programs-resources/groups/copt/programs/active
³⁶	http://www.ahrq.gov
³⁷	http://nccam.nih.gov
³⁸	http://www.nimhd.nih.gov
³⁹	http://www.nia.nih.gov
⁴⁰	http://painconsortium.nih.gov
⁴¹	http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml
⁴²	http://www.ninds.nih.gov
⁴³	http://www.ninr.nih.gov
⁴⁴	http://obssr.od.nih.gov/index.aspx
⁴⁵	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/index.htm
⁴⁶	http://painconsortium.nih.gov/symptomresearch
⁴⁷	http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/cancerlibrary/epeco
⁴⁸	http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/funding/announcements/symptommanagemen t/pcwg
⁴⁹	https://list.nih.gov/archives/nci_symptoms_researchers.html