Private Funding Opportunities

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

• 'A' Awards (Due: May 21, 2018)
• Clinical Sites to Support Nursing Fellowship Research Project (Due: January 31, 2018)
• Epidemiology Grants (Due: December 14, 2018)
• Familial RUNX1 Research Grant (LOI Due: July 2, 2018)
• Innovation Grants (LOI Due: November 1, 2018)
• Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program (Due on a rolling basis: January 8 - April 1, 2018)
• Reach Grants (Due: May 21, 2018)
• Young Investigator Grants (Due: December 14, 2018)

Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation

• Research Grant (LOI Due: February 15, 2018; Application Due: March 30, 2018)

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

• AACR Clinical Immuno-oncology Research Training Fellowships (Due: May 4, 2018)
• AACR-Kure It Research Grant for Immunotherapy in Kidney Cancer (Due: February 15, 2018)
• AACR Gastric Cancer Research Fellowships (Due: January 25, 2018)
• AACR Innovation and Discovery Grants (Due: June 29, 2018)
• AACR Lung Cancer Innovation Science Grants (Due: May 2, 2018)
• AACR-Ocular Melanoma Foundation Career Development Award (Due: January 31, 2018)
• AACR Stimulating Therapeutic Advancements through Research Training (START) Grants (Due: June 1, 2018)
• SU2C T-Cell Lymphoma Dream Team Translational Research Grant (LOI Due: July 2, 2018)
• Pancreatic Cancer Collective New Therapies Challenge (Due: July 2, 2018)

American Brain Tumor Association

• Medical Student Summer Fellowship Program (Closed)
• ABTA Research Collaboration (ARC) Grant Program (Closed)
• ABTA Basic Research Fellowship Program (Closed)
• ABTA Discovery Grant Program (Closed)

American Cancer Society

• Audrey Meyer Mars International Fellowship in Clinical Oncology (Due: October 15)
• Clinical Research Professor Award (LOI Due: August 1)
• Clinician Scientist Development Grant (Due: April 1 & October 15)
• Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing (Due: October 15)
• Metastasis in Melanoma and Other Cancers (Due: January 16, 2019)
• Physician Training Award in Cancer Prevention (Due: April 1)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (Due: April 1 & October 15)
• Research Scholar Grant (Due: April 1 & October 15)

American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

• ASTRO-BCRF Career Development Award to End Breast Cancer (Due: February 15, 2019)
• ASTRO-PCF Career Development Award to End Prostate Cancer (Due: February 15, 2019)
• Resident/Fellow in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grants (Due: February 15, 2019)
• ASTRO-MRA Early Career Investigator Award in Radiation Oncology (Eligibility materials due: October 29, 2018)
• ASTRO-AAPM Physics Resident/Post-Doctoral Fellow Seed Grant (Due: February 15, 2019)
• Minority Summer Fellowship Award (Due: February 15, 2019)

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

• Advanced Clinical Research Award (LOI Due: October 15, 2018)
• Career Development Award (Due: September 25, 2018)
• Global Oncology Young Investigator Award (Due: September 25, 2018)
• International Development and Education Award (Due: October 31, 2018)
• International Innovation Grant (Closed)
• Medical Student Rotation for Underrepresented Populations (Closed)
• Merit Award (Open year-round)
• Research Professorship (Closed)
• Resident Travel Award for Underrepresented Populations (Closed)
• Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Awards (Due: November 16, 2018)
• Young Investigator Award (Due: September 25, 2018)
• Young Investigator Award in Cholangiocarcinoma (Closed)

American Society of Hematology (ASH)

• Abstract Achievement Awards and Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards (Due: August 1, 2018)
• ASH HONORS (Hematology Opportunities for the Next Generation of Research Scientists) Award (Due: February 1, 2018)
• Bridge Grant Bridge Grant (Due: May 1, 2018)
• Clinical Research Training Institute (LOI Due: January 3, 2018; Application Due: March 23, 2018)
• Clinical Research Training Institute in Latin America (Due: August 1, 2018)
• Minority Medical Student Award Program (Due: August 1, 2018)
• Minority Resident Hematology Award Program (Due: August 1, 2018)
• Physician-Scientist Career Development Award (Due: January 15, 2018)
• Research Training Award for Fellows (Due: January 15, 2018)
• Translational Research Training in Hematology (Due: June 21, 2018)

Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation

• Young Innovators Team Awards (Application Due: July 15, 2018)

Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network

• Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Award (LOI Due: February 21, 2018)
  
  

California Breast Cancer Research Program

• Global Challenge to Prevent Breast Cancer (Due: January 7, 2019)

CURE Childhood Cancer

• Research Grants (Due: March 9, 2018)

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

• Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists (Due: July 16, 2018)
• Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award (Due: February 1, 2018)
• Damon Runyon Fellowship Award (Due: March 15 & August 15, 2018)
• Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award (Due: March 15, 2018)
• Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award (Due: December 3, 2018)
• Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award (Due: July 6, 2018)

Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research

• Medical Research Awards (Internal LOI Due: June 1, 2018)

Hope Funds for Cancer Research

• Postdoctoral Fellowship (Eligibility Materials Due: September 18, 2018)

Hyundai Hope On Wheels

• Hope Scholar Grant and Young Investigator Grant (Submit 1-page LOI to douglas.graham@choa.org and cc: janet.nabors@choa.org by 3pm on January 28, 2019.)

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

• IWMF-LLS Strategic Research Roadmap Initiative (Due: February 16, 2018)
• RTFCCR/LLS Patient-Focused Prevention (LOI Due: October 1, 2017)
• Career Development Program (Eligibility Materials Due: September 1, 2018)
• Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research Initiative (LOI Due: May 15, 2017)
• New Idea Award (LOI Due: July 31, 2017)
• Specialized Center of Research Program (LOI Due: August 31, 2018)
• Translational Research Program (LOI Due: August 31, 2018)

Lung Cancer Research Foundation

• Lung Cancer Research Foundation (Due: July 2, 2018)
  
  

LUNGevity Foundation

• Career Development Awards (LOIs Due: February 19, 2019)

Melanoma Research Alliance

• Metastasis in Melanoma and Other Cancers (Due: January 16, 2019)

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

• Research Fellow Award (Due: May 25, 2018)

Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation

• Accelerator Award (LOI Due: June 15, 2018)
• Petersen Investigator Award (LOI Due: June 15, 2018)
• Pilot Project Award (LOI Due: June 15, 2018)

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

• NCCN/Eli Lilly Quality of Care in Gastric Cancer (LOI Due: Oct. 24, 2018)

ORIEN

• ORIEN NOVA Team Science Awards (LOI Due: May 14, 2018)

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance

• Ann Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award (Closed)
• Collaborative Research Development Grant (Closed)
• Liz Tilberis Early Career Award (Closed)
• Rosalind Franklin Prize for Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research (Due: April 16, 2018)

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

• Catalyst Grant (Due: December 15, 2017)
• Translational Research Grant (Due: January 15, 2018)

Pew Charitable Trusts

• Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research (Nominations Due: June 29, 2018)
  
  

Society for Epidemiologic Research

• Brain MacMahon Early Career Epidemiologist Award (Due: January 14, 2019)
• Distinguished Service to SER Award (Due: January 14, 2019)
• Excellence in Education Award (Due: January 14, 2019)
• Kenneth Rothman Career Accomplishment Award (Due: January 14, 2019)
• Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Prize Paper Award (Due: January 14, 2019)
• Tyroler Student Prize Paper Award (Due: January 14, 2019)

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)

• Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship Award (Due: February 20, 2018)
• Postdoctoral Cancer Immunotherapy in Combination Therapies Clinical Fellowship Award (Due: February 20, 2018)
• Postdoctoral Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Fellowship Award (Due: February 20, 2018)

St. Baldrick's Foundation

Stand Up To Cancer

• T-Cell Lymphoma Dream Team Translational Research Grant (LOI Due: July 2, 2018)
• SU2C-CRUK Pediatric Brain Cancer Dream Team Translational Research Grant (LOI Due: July 2, 2018)

Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta

• Community Grant (Due: November 8, 2017)

Varian Medical Systems

• Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology Grants (Due November 1, 2018)

V Foundation

• Robin Roberts Cancer Survivorship Research Fund (LOI Due: August 8, 2018)
• Translational Grant (LOI Due: April 2, 2018)
• V Scholar Grant (LOI Due: March 16, 2018)

William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation

• Forbeck Foundation Scholar Award (Due: April 2, 2018)