Call for projects 2025 “High Risk – High Gain” research projects in pediatric oncology – Calls for projects

The aim of this call for projects is to support highly innovative research projects enabling the opening of new original avenues and producing concrete advances in pediatric oncology. This involves funding original and daring research projects, conceptually new and risky, considered “High Risk-High Gain”, which could not be financed within the framework of traditionally existing calls for projects.

Furthermore, given that “High Risk – High Gain” research projects have very different characteristics from projects submitted in traditional calls for projects, no project previously submitted in another call for projects from the Institute will be eligible for this call for projects.

This call for projects is open to all disciplines of fundamental and translational researchwithout exception. All research teams, including teams not usually working on childhood cancers, can apply. No preliminary data is necessary to submit a project.

The philosophy of this call for projects is reflected, in part, through the following questions: if risk-taking pays off, will the results be significant and to what extent will these results be Are they likely to be a “game changer” in pediatric oncology? Thus, by way of example (non-exhaustive list), projects may:

• Provide the determining elements or results of a scientific demonstration of a paradigm shift; such as, for example, the questioning of a scientific dogma in pediatric oncology;
• Propose and explore a completely innovative idea, by defining new research questions;
• Develop a new solution for a known scientific difficulty in childhood cancer research;
• Use methodological approaches radically different from the approaches traditionally used to respond to a given problem;
• Be characterized by transfers from one discipline or research theme to another in order to resolve a problem that is currently, apparently, insoluble.

In all cases, projects must justify innovative character and risky of the question studied, of the novel or radical nature of the solutions and approaches proposed, of the determining nature of the expected results.

Each project can be carried out by a single or several teams, if collaboration is necessary.

Calendar

• Access to the submission site from January 15, 2025
• Submission deadline: February 20, 2025 – 4:00 p.m.

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