Chair: Dr. Carl E. Allen

Vice-Chair: Dr. Girish Chinnaswamy

PARC Committee Members

Alejandra Casanovas, Alejandra Mendez, Eric Bouffet, Mariana Kruger, Raya Saab, Casey McAtee, Oscar Ramirez, Naureen Mushtaq, Nisreen Amayiri, Dr. Guillermo Chantada (ex officio)

The SIOP Board of Directors decided to establish the Programme for Advancing the Research Capacity (PARC) for Pediatric Cancer Clinical Trials in Low Income Countries and Middle Income Countries, which is governed by the SIOP PARC Committee. The PARC Programme is generously funded by Amazon and Foundation S.

PARC’s Ambitious Goal

Through the PARC Programme to bolster pediatric oncology clinical research infrastructure in low income countries (LICs) and middle income countries (MICs), SIOP will enhance the capacity for research-informed treatment to improve the care and cure of children with cancer.

Through the PARC Programme, SIOP will 1) enable SIOP members and partners to expand research capacity in order to generate local evidence for cure and care, 2) advocate for increased use of research to provide evidence that optimizes the outcomes for children with cancer, and 3) mobilize resources for clinical research capacity development in LICs and MICs. To learn more, please see this article.

PARC Grant Opportunity for RFP #2

This RFP is open to cooperative groups and disease-specific groups from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Oceania. Please review and, if you are interested, please submit a proposal with all required documents by Oct 15, 2024 at 12pm CEST (Geneva). All details for this RFP are here. A Q&A meeting will be held on Sept 23, 2024, at 8.30am Texas time–please contact info@siop-online.org for details and Zoom link for this meeting.

During the application submission process, you will be asked for information on whether 75% of the centers in your cooperative group/research group have registered in the SIOP Global Mapping Program. For this requirement, please be ready to upload a list of the centers in your group and a focal point per center, and SIOP will automatically check how many of them are registered in the SIOP Global Mapping Program. If you have not yet met the 75% requirement, SIOP will provide guidance to you on how to register the remaining centers. It takes 10 min per center to register (the registration process is essentially a response to 10 questions through SurveyMonkey).

PARC Grant Announcements for RFP #1

• CANCARE Africa
• GALOP 
• INPHOG/CanKids KidsCan
• POEM/AUB

Nai-Kong and Irene Cheung Family Career Development Award

The Nai-Kong and Irene Cheung Family Career Development (CD) Award provides funding to clinical investigators associated with and working with PARC-affiliated cooperative groups that operate in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These clinical investigators should be participating or should intend to participate in clinical research in a cooperative group in their country or region.

• 2024 Awardee: Dr. Prasanth Srinivasan (India)
• 2024 Awardee: Dr. Gabriela Inés Villanueva (Argentina)