Membership Benefits & Responsibilities

Learn about membership types and categories.

Leadership

• Eligibility for appointment as HCI Program Leader (Type 1)
• Eligibility for appointment as HCI Translational Scholar (Type 1)
• Eligibility for inclusion in HCI strategic planning (Type 1, 2)
• Opportunity to provide input on Program and Shared Resource development (Type 1, 2)

Institutional Funding Opportunities

• Program Funding
  
  • Pilot Research
    
    • Type 1 and Type 2 members are eligible to serve as PIs or co-investigators
    • Early-Stage Investigators (as defined by NIH) may serve as PIs, but must include a mentoring component
  • Travel funding (Type 1, 2)
• Center for Investigational Therapeutics (CIT)
  
  • Project Funding (Type 1, 2)
• Team Science Acceleration (TSA) Funding
  
  • Pilot Research
    
    • Type 1 and Type 2 members are eligible to serve as PIs or co-investigators
• Translational Science Initiative (TSI) Funding
  
  • Pilot Research
    
    • Type 1 and Type 2 members are eligible to serve as PIs or co-investigators
    • Early-Stage Investigators (as defined by NIH) may serve as PIs, but must include a mentoring component
• Eligibility to apply for NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Supplement funding (Type 1, 2)
• Eligibility to apply for American Cancer Society (ACS) Institutional Research Seed Grants (Type 2)
• Eligibility to apply for HCI-managed limited submission extramural funding opportunities (All)

Information and Community

• Receipt of information regarding external funding opportunities (All)
• Receipt of the HCI newsletter; direct notification of Cancer Center seminars and activities (All)
• Opportunities to interact with cancer research-oriented colleagues via HCI retreats, symposia, seminars, and meetings (All)
• Designation as an HCI Investigator (All)

Scientific and Administrative Support

• Access to HCI-managed Shared Resources (All)
• Access to interventional clinical research support (All)

Membership Responsibilities

All members are expected to:

• Participate in Cancer Center activities, such as collaborative research projects and/or clinical trials, meetings, seminars, and retreats
• Respond to requests for information on research progress, ‘other support pages’, publications, extramural funding, trainees, and biosketches with timely and accurate submissions
• Acknowledge the Cancer Center Support Grant in publications where appropriate
• Grant HCI Administration access to funding information provided by PeopleSoft Management Reports