Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

Alliance Cancer Care Delivery Research Pilot Project Award

The Alliance offers pilot project funding to support Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) projects that generate preliminary data for future Alliance CCDR studies submitted to the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) network.

Supporting Preliminary Research

The Alliance CCDR Committee is particularly interested in projects focused on:

  • Patient out-of-pocket costs, financial toxicity for patients and caregivers, and financial counseling
  • Integrating patient-reported outcomes into routine care
  • Practice-level changes that improve cancer care delivery, including:
    • Implementing survivorship care plans
    • Developing models for coordination of care
    • Improving surgical cancer care processes

Eligibility and Requirements

Funding is available through the Alliance NCORP Research Base CCDR grant, supported by the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). Projects must be designed for completion within one year. Applicants and their respective institutions must be Alliance members, and applicants must be members of the Alliance CCDR Committee.

For more information about this award, please contact Niveditha Subbiah, LLM, MA, Alliance Senior Program Manager, at Niveditha@AllianceNCTN.org.

Past Recipients