Cancer Institute A national cancer institute
designated cancer center

Internal Funding Opportunities
Developmental Cancer Research Awards (DCRA)

DCRA:
Interactive
Projects

  • Supports new ideas for program project grants or multi-project grants
  • Up to $100,000 (1 year award)
  • 1 Recipient Selected
  • Internal Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 (by 3:00 p.m.)
  • Notice of Selection: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

DCRA:
Population
Science

  • Supports projects in population sciences, specifically in cancer prevention & control and cancer epidemiology
  • Up to $50,000 (1 year award)
  • Multiple Recipients Selected
  • Internal Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, (by 3:00 p.m.)
  • Notice of Selection: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

DCRA:
Translational
Research

  • Supports interdisciplinary clinical and translational cancer research projects
  • Up to $50,000 (1 year award)
  • Multiple Recipients Selected
  • Internal Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, (by 3:00 p.m.)
  • Notice of Selection: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

External Funding Opportunities (Requiring Internal Reviews & Selection)

AACI

  • Support to individuals who are engaged in any area of clinical and/or translational cancer research
  • $50,000 (1 year)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: December 13, 2012
  • External Deadline: February 1, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

Damon Runyon: Clinical Investigator Award

  • Supports young physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented cancer research
  • $450,000 ($150K x 3 years)
  • 3 Applications Selected
  • Internal Deadline: December 10, 2012
  • External Deadline: February 15, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

LUNGevity Career Development

  • LUNGevity's Career Development Awards for Translational Research program supports a cohort of future research leaders keeping the field of lung cancer research vibrant with new ideas.  Research projects restricted to translational lunch cancer research.
  • Up to $300,000 (3 years)
  • 1 Applications Selected
  • Internal Deadline: December 10, 2012
  • Letter of Intent: December 17, 2012
  • External Deadline: March 1, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

Mary Kay Foundation: Cancer Research Grant

  • Supports cancer research affecting women (ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical)
  • $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: December 10, 2012
  • External Deadline: February 4, 2013
  • Foundation Selection Announcement: May 2013
  • Website: Click Here

NCCN Foundation: Young Investigator

  • Supports young investigators with innovative ideas and interest in the development and application of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology
  • $150,000 ($75K x 2 years)
  • Multiple Recipients Selected
  • 2 Applications selected (1 for each category)
  • Internal Deadline: February 20, 2013
  • External Deadline: March 21, 2013
  • Foundation Selection Announcement: April 2013
  • Website: Click Here

NIH NCI: Community Clinical Oncology Program Network Research Bases

  • Supports the role of CCOP Research Bases in designing clinical trials for use in the CCOP Network
  • $ Not limited (3 or 5 year award)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: June 2013
  • Letter of Intent Deadline: July 2013
  • External Deadline: August 2013
  • Website: Click Here

NIH NCI: Minority Based Community Clinical Oncology

  • Supports a consortium of oncologists from interacting community institutions with at least 30% minority cancer patients and that accrue patients/participants to clinical trials designed and conducted by the CCOP Research Bases
  • $ Not limited (3 or 5 year award)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: June 2013
  • Letter of Intent Deadline: July 2013
  • External Deadline: August 2013
  • Website: Click Here

NIH NCI: Target Discovery & Development

  • Promotes innovative research on high throughput approaches to the discovery and characterization of new cancer targets and their modulators
  • $500,000 - 750,000 (per year for up to 5 years)
  • 2 Applications Selected
  • Internal Deadline: April 2013
  • Letter of Intent Deadline: May 2013
  • External Deadline: June 2013
  • Website: Click Here

Reliable Cancer Therapy (RCT): Rediscovering Breakthroughs

  • Funding for the clinical development of promising anti-cancer therapies/agents that offer a breakthrough in cancer treatment (2 Award Mechanisms)
  • Up to $5,000,000 (60 months)
  • 2 Application selected
  • Internal Deadline: July 2013
  • External Deadline: August 2013
  • Foundation Selection Notice: TBD
  • Website: Click here

Samuel Waxman: Reprogramming the Cancer Cell

  • Supports differentiation therapy of cancer - the notion that a cancer cell can be re-programmed to re-acquire aspects of normal cell differentiation
  • $200,000 (2 years)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: January 28, 2013
  • External Deadline: March 13, 2013
  • Foundation Selection Notice: July 1, 2013
  • Website: Click Here

V Foundation: Scholar Award

  • Supports young scientists to establish their laboratories and gain a competitive edge necessary to earn additional funding from other sources
  • $200,000 (2 years)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: June 2013
  • External Deadline: July 2013
  • Website: Click Here

V Foundation: Translational Research

  • Supports novel approaches developed to the prevention, detection, and treatment of human cancer that requires collaboration of investigators from the lab and the clinic
  • $600,000 ($200K x 3 years)
  • 1 Application Selected
  • Internal Deadline: April 2013
  • External Deadline: June 2013
  • Website: Click Here

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