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Funding
Genentech Health Equity Innovation Fund RFP
Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer Career Enhancement Program (CEP) Award
The CEP of the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer has been established to educate the next generation of investigators committed to translational research in lung cancer. The CEP will provide support of up to $50,000 to promising junior investigators and/or establish investigators who have not previously conducted lung cancer focused research.
Letters of Intent Due: Friday April 19, 2024
Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer Developmental Research Program (DRP) Award
The DRP of the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer provides seed money to investigators to support studies with a strong translational component that have the potential to evolve into, or be incorporated as, a full Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer project. The purpose is also to generate preliminary data or evidence of collaboration for new NCI grant applications.
Letters of Intent Due: Friday April 19, 2024
Understanding Expectancies in Cancer Symptom Management (R01)
This NOFO will solicit mechanistic research that aims to understand how and why expectancy effects occur in a cancer context, elucidate their role in cancer symptom management, and identify patients, symptoms, cancer sites, and contexts in which expectancy effects can be leveraged to improve cancer outcomes.
Application Deadline: May 7, 2026
The Robert A. Winn Career Development Award
The two-year $120,000 award, aimed at increasing the diversity of patients enrolled in clinical trials, is accepting applications from early-stage investigator physicians who are underrepresented in medicine. The program aims to strengthen partnerships between clinical investigators and the communities where their patients reside, with a goal of ultimately engaging a patient population that mirrors the epidemiology of the disease studied.
Application Deadline: May 13, 2024. Please follow these application instructions.
K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program Scholar Award
The K12 Calabresi award is for junior faculty to enhance research skills beyond the training provided during graduate and postgraduate training. Successful applicants are required to demonstrate a strong commitment to a career in cancer immunology. The two-year IOTP curriculum includes didactic and practical training in basic, translational and clinical aspects of cancer immunology research. The program also includes a required research component (either clinical or bench research, or a combination thereof). Applicants are required to identify a mentor and a provide a research and mentorship proposal.
Deadline: Friday, June 14, 2024 at 5 pm
Further information and Application Instructions: https://www.yalecancercenter.org/research/education/faculty/about/
Chronic Cancer Pain Research RFP
This RFP was designed based on patient needs. It will focus on interventions for the prevention and/or treatment of cancer-related chronic pain. Specifically, the RFP welcome proposals focused on all types of cancer-related chronic pain, including but not limited to post-surgical pain, lymphedema-related pain, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, phantom pain, aromatase inhibitor-related joint pain, referred pain and bone metastasis pain.
Letter of Intent deadline: July 9, 2024
Past Opportunities
JH Milstone Fund
JH Milstone will award a grant in 2024 to support early-stage investigators and innovative research that improves understanding of bleeding, thrombosis, or thrombolysis. Yale students, residents, and fellows working with a mentor at Yale; or faculty within first 5 years of appointment, are encouraged to apply.
The research can focus on the genetics, biochemistry or cell biology of coagulation or thrombolysis or on the causes, pathogenesis, diagnosis, or treatment of bleeding and clotting disorders. In the absence of preliminary data, appropriate mentors and/or collaborators are important.
Further information: contact Richard.Carr@yale.edu
DeLuca Awards Request for Applications
The DeLuca Center for Innovation in Hematology Research was formed thanks to a generous donation by the Fredrick A. DeLuca Foundation.
- Pilot Award: to support investigators pursuing research in Hematology and to generate preliminary data for new NCI/NIH grant applications. The research should seek to advance our knowledge in Hematologic disorders and to improve patient care, therapies, and outcomes.
- Career Development Award: to provide early career clinical or laboratory-based investigators in Hematology the opportunity to focus on research to advance patient care, therapies, and outcomes with the ultimate goal to achieve independentsupport for their research from a national agency.
Letters of Intent Due: March 1, 2024 for more information contact richard.carr@yale.edu
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator Awards
BCAN's $75,000 Young Investigator Awards support outstanding early-career scientists and clinical cancer researchers who are committed to improving the understanding and treatment of bladder cancer and/or upper tract urothelial cancer. The Patient-Centered Clinical Research Young Investigator Awards (PCC-YIA) support early-career scientists and clinical cancer researchers investigating transformational patient-oriented clinical bladder cancer and/or upper tract urothelial cancer research.
Yale Head and Neck SPORE (YHN-SPORE) Career Enhancement Program (CEP)
The CEP of the Yale Head and Neck SPORE has been established to educate the next generation of investigators committed to translational research in head and neck cancer. The CEP will provide support to promising junior investigators and/or establish investigators who have not previously conducted head and neck cancer focused research.
Yale Head and Neck SPORE (YHN-SPORE) Developmental Research Program (DRP)
The Yale Head and Neck SPORE’s DRP provides seed money to investigators to support studies with a strong translational component that have the potential to evolve into, or be incorporated as, a full YHN-SPORE project or to generate preliminary data or evidence of collaboration for other new NIH grant applications.
BreastCancer Alliance (BCA) RFPs
Exceptional Project Grant - BCA invites clinical doctors and research scientists at any stage of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for an Exceptional Project Grant. This award recognizes creative, unique and innovative research and is open to applicants at institutions in the contiguous United States. This is a one year grant for a total of $100,000.
Young Investigator Grant - To encourage a commitment to breast cancer research, BCA invites clinical doctors and research scientists who are in the early stages of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for funding for the Young Investigator Grant. This grant is open to applicants at institutions in the contiguous United States. This is a two-year grant for a total of $125,000, with half the grant award being paid out each year.
Year-at-a-Glance
Funding Support
Funding Opportunities based on 2023 information – keep in mind foundations may not always offer their opportunities in the same month or for the same funding amount from one year to the next.
- Internal Competitions – conducted by Developmental Funds by submitting application through InfoReady
- Limited Submissions – Foundation would like limited representation from Yale. Conducted by Developmental Funds by submitting application through InfoReady
- External Funding – Application is made directly to the foundation. Developmental Funds is not involved. Information regarding the funding can be found on InfoReady
| Title | Category | Discipline/Subject Area | Funding Available | Launch Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chenevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Yale Developmental Research Awards | Internal Funding | Brain Cancers (Primary or metastatic) with translational focus | $100,000 | January |
| American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant | External Funding | Cancer research | $800,000 | January |
| American Cancer Society Clinician Scientist Development Grant | External Funding | Improving health across the cancer research continuum | $540,000 | January |
| American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship | External Funding | Cancer research | $200,000 | January |
| American Cancer Society Discovery Boost Grant | External Funding | Exploratory research to develop research methodologies, establish feasibility, or pilot test
high risk/high reward research |
$125,000 | January |
| NY Academy of Sciences: Innovators in Science Award: CANCER IMMUNOLOGY | Limited Submission | Cancer Immunology | $400,000 | January |
| 2023 Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research-V foundation | Limited Submission | This request for applications is specifically to fund women cancer researchers | $800,000 | January |
| R50 NCI Specialist - Clinician Scientist - Clinical Trial Not Allowed (PAR-21-306) | Limited Submission | NCI-funded clinician scientist | January | |
| 2023 Leslie H. Warner Postdoctoral Fellowships for Cancer Research | Internal Funding | Cancer; post-doc | $50,000 | February |
| Breast Cancer Alliance Young Investigator Grant | Limited Submission | Breast Cancer | $125,000 | February |
| Breast Cancer Alliance Exceptional Project Grants | Limited Submission | Breast Cancer | $100,000 | February |
| V Foundation: Adult Translational Cancer Research in Therapeutic Resistance | Limited Submission | Adult Cancer with end point planning or initiation of a new clinical trial | $800,000 | February |
| Charles H. Hood Foundation: Child Health Research Awards Program | External Funding | Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research, and epidemiology focused on child health | $200,000 | February |
| Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation REACH grant | External Funding | Translation of innovative ideas to the clinic for childhood
cancer |
$250,000 | February |
| Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation 'R' Accelerated Award Grant 2023 | External Funding | Childhood cancers | $800,000 | February |
| Yale Head and Neck SPORE Career Enhancement Program | Internal Funding | Head and Neck Cancers | $50,000 | February |
| Yale Head and Neck SPORE Developmental Research Program | Internal Funding | Head and Neck Cancers | $50,000 | February |
| Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer Career Enhancement Program | Internal Funding | Lung Cancers | $50,000 | March |
| Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer Developmental Research Program | Internal Funding | Lung Cancers | $50,000 | March |
| V Scholar Cancer Research Grant | Limited Submission | Adult Cancer with therapeutic resistance | $600,000 | March |
| 2024 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research | Limited Submission | Cancer Research | $300,000 | March |
| The Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Award | External Funding | Cancer Research | $750,000 | March |
| 2023 SITC Fellowships (6 in total) | External Funding | Cancer Immunotherapy Research | March | |
| R50 NCI Specialist - Clinician Scientist - Clinical Trial Not Allowed (PAR-21-306) | Limited Submission | NCI-funded clinician scientist | April | |
| Phi Beta Psi Charity Trust Cancer Research Grant | Limited Submission | Brain, breast, colorectal, endometrial, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, gastrointestinal tract, or prostate cancer | $50,000 | April |
| 2023 Yale Cancer Center Internal Pilot Grants | Internal Funding | Innovative Cancer Research | $50,000 | May |
| Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer Career Enhancement Program | Internal Funding | Lung Cancers | $50,000 | March |
| Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer Developmental Research Program | Internal Funding | Lung Cancers | $50,000 | March |
| Robert E. Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award | External Funding | Research relating to human diseases, their causes and relief thereof | $200,000 | May |
| American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor Award | External Funding | Seminal contributions in areas of clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy, or epidemiologic cancer research | $400,000 | May |
| Alex's Lemonade Stand: “A” Award Program 2023 | External Funding | Early-Career Faculty; Pediatric Oncology (within 5 years of their first faculty appointment as an assistant professor) | May | |
| 2023 Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer Developmental Research Program
Awards |
Internal Funding | Translational Skin Cancer | $50,000 | June |
| 2023 Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer Career Enhancement Program Awards | Internal Funding | Translational Skin Cancer | $50,000 | June |
| Gabrielle's Angel Foundation Hematologic Malignancies | Limited Submission | Hematologic Malignancies | $225,000 | June |
| Lung Cancer Research Foundation Award | External Funding | Lung Cancer Research | $2,000,000 | June |
| Damon Runyon Fellowship Award | External Funding | Cancer Research | $300,000 | June |
| ACS IMPACT Research Professorship in Prostate Cancer | Limited Submission | Prostate Cancer | $80,000 | July |
| Hyundai Bridge2K Award for NIH K Award Applicants | External Funding | Pediatric oncology, childhood cancer, hematology oncology, MD, MD/PhD | $150,000 | July |
| American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant | External Funding | Cancer research | $800,000 | July |
| American Cancer Society Clinician Scientist Development Grant | External Funding | Improving health across the cancer research continuum | $540,000 | July |
| American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship | External Funding | Cancer research | $200,000 | July |
| American Cancer Society Discovery Boost Grant | External Funding | Exploratory research to develop research methodologies,
establish feasibility, or pilot test high risk/high reward research |
$125,000 | July |
| The Damon Runyon–St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship | External Funding | Pediatric Cancer | $290,000 | August |
| ASCO Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award | External Funding | Clinical Oncology | $50,000 | August |
| ASCO Conquer Cancer Career Development Award | External Funding | Clinical/Translational | $200,000 | August |
| Lion Heart Fund for Cancer Research Grant | Internal Funding | Breast Cancer | $40,000 | September |
| NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00 Clinical Trial
Not Allowed) |
Limited Submission | Predoctoral, fellow, early career, cancer | September | |
| 2024 Innovation Awards Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation | External Funding | Pediatric Oncology | $250,000 | September |
| NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early-Stage Postdoctoral
Researchers (K99/R00) |
Limited Submission | Cancer Research; early investigator; training; postdoc | $500,000 | October |
| American Cancer Society - Institutional Research Grant Pilot Awards for Underrepresented Minorities (Junior
Investigators) |
Internal Funding | Cancer Research | $40,000 | October |
| American Cancer Society - Institutional Research Grant Pilot Awards | Internal Funding | Cancer Research | $120,000 | October |
| ASCO's Conquer Cancer and Breast Cancer Research Foundation: Young
Investigator Award for Diversity and Inclusion in Breast Cancer Research |
External Funding | Breast Cancer research | $50,000 | October |