Additional information is available at the website along with a listing of the peer committee. Over $350 million has been raised by the foundation. In addition to the Young Investigators awards the Challenge Awards were also recently in the news and announced.
Online donations and subscriptions to news letters can be found here, along with a multitude of resources and general information about prostate cancer, causes, treatment plans, research an so on. Private donations are still the driving force today for research and development without some of the restrictions and complicated processes required for government grants and allow researchers additional freedoms and areas of exposure that otherwise may not be possible. BD
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced 19 Young Investigators Awards for 2008. Designed to encourage the most innovative research thinkers to continue their careers in prostate cancer research, the awards provide recipients with $75,000 annually for three years to support specified research programs. These awards, totaling $225,000 each, are matched by the recipients’ institutions. This round of Young Investigator Awards represents a new $4.3 million commitment by the PCF to the global cancer research community. 
“The response to the first year’s call for applicants was global, resulting in 76 applications from eight countries in North America, Europe and Asia,” commented Dr. Howard Soule, executive vice president and chief science officer for the PCF. “The research proposals focused on 16 different prostate cancer research areas. The applicants represented seven medical and scientific disciplines including medical oncology, radiation oncology, urology, pathology, imaging science and many areas of molecular science. Supporting a focus on prostate cancer by talented, young investigators is critical to realizing the PCF’s goal of accelerating breakthrough discoveries that can potentially end death and suffering from prostate cancer.”
Prostate Cancer Foundation Commits $4.3 Million to Young Investigators
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