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The major goal of German Cancer Aid's funding program for the development of 'Interdisciplinary Oncology Centers of Excellence' ('Onkologische Spitzenzentren') in Germany is to continuously improve the treatment and care of cancer patients. Conducting interdisciplinary research pro-grams that encompass both basic science as well as the essential translation of scientific find-ings into clinical practice, is therefore an essential task of 'Interdisciplinary Oncology Centers of Excellence'. Patients can then rapidly benefit from new scientific progress. To this end, the Ger-man Cancer Aid has also strongly supported the establishment of the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research ('Deutsches Konsortium für Translationale Krebsforschung', DKTK), which is part of the program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research on 'German Centers for Health Research'.
The German Cancer Aid has decided to set up the funding program 'Translational Oncology'. The goal of this program is to support collaborative translational cancer research projects at 'Interdisciplinary Oncology Centers of Excellence', Comprehensive Cancer Centers and DKTK sites. These projects must be performed at more than two sites and necessitate close collabora-tion between several research groups. For example, these may be collaborative projects ('Verbundprojekte') or innovative clinical trials. The maximal annual budget of the program is 7 million Euros.

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http://www.krebshilfe.de/wir-foerdern/ausschreibungen.html?L=w%258C%25A2%2586P7%259740n#c1681
http://www.krebshilfe.de/fileadmin/Inhalte/Downloads/PDFs/Foerderung/Ausschreibungen/Ausschreibungstext_englisch_2nd_Call_final.pdf