Breast Cancer Alliance

Exceptional Project Grant

This award recognizes creative, unique, and innovative research. Clinical doctors and research scientists at institutions throughout the contiguous United States are welcome to apply.

• Funding amount: $100,000
• Award term: One year
• Application window: January - February
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: Two

Young Investigator Grant

This grant is meant for those at an early stage in their research career to help provide seed funding for the research required to apply for larger, longer-term grants, often with the NIH. (To secure federal funding, a researcher must prove a theory works; BCA creates the critical bridge between novel research and the opportunity to generate preliminary results.)

Clinical doctors and research scientists at institutions in the contiguous United States who, following completion of their training, will not have held a faculty position for more than four years at the start date of the grant, are invited to apply.

• Funding amount: $125,000
• Award term: Two years
• Application window: January - February
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: One

Damon Runyon

Clinical Investigator Award

This award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity. The goal is to support the best young physician-scientists doing work aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine.

• Funding amount: $600,000
• Award term: Three years
• Application window: January
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: Five

Gabrielle's Angel Foundation

Clinical Investigator Award

These awards support some incredibly promising outstanding junior faculty members and physician scientists who are applying novel and state-of-the-art techniques to address fundamental problems in the genesis and treatment of blood related cancers

• Funding amount: $225,000
• Award term: Three years
• Application window: June - July
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: Two

Mary Kay Foundation

Innovative/Translational Cancer Research Grant

These awards support translational research of cancers affecting women (ovarian, uterine, breast, endometrial or cervical cancer among others). Translational research is broadly defined as research that will provide a scientific link between laboratory research and the clinic. Such research would lead to improvement in diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, or treatment of the cancer.

• Funding amount: $100,000
• Award term: Two years
• Application window: November - December
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: One

Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research

This award supports assistant professors of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of a cure for cancer.

• Funding amount: $300,000
• Award term: Four years
• Application window: March - April
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: One

Phi Beta Psi Charity 

Trust Award

Grants for qualified investigators addressing original questions and hypotheses to be explored in basic and clinical studies in the field of cancer. Research applications must be focused on brain, breast, colorectal, endometrial, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, or prostate cancer. Preference is given to Young Investigators with documented evidence of potential for conducting novel research of either basic or clinical aspects of cancer and cancer-related problems.

• Funding amount: $50,000 to $60,000
• Award term: One year
• Application window: April - May
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: Two

National Cancer Institute

Research Specialist (Clinician Scientist) Award

Provides stable support for clinician scientists at their institutions for significant leadership and exceptional participation in the NCI-sponsored clinical trials networks that conduct cancer treatment, prevention and control, and care delivery clinical trials.

• Funding amount:
  • Salary support for the Research Specialist commensurate with their level of effort on NCI funded clinical trials with a minimum of 2.4 and a maximum of 4.8 person-months funded by this award; and 
  • Travel costs to attend research meetings/conferences not to exceed $2,500 per year.
• Award term: total award project period may not exceed 5 years
• Application window: February - March, June - July, and November - December
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: one new (A0) application and one resubmission (A1) application opportunity per receipt date (three times per year)

V Foundation

V Scholar

This award supports young tenure-track faculty early in their cancer research careers by funding projects that are either laboratory-based fundamental research or translational research

• Funding amount: $600,000
• Award term: Three years
• Application window: February - March
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: One

Translational

These grants support “bench to bedside” research, whose endpoint is often planning or initiation of a clinical trial.

• Funding amount: $800,000
• Award term: Four years
• Application window: February - March
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: TBD

Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research (V Scholar OR Translational)

This award funds women cancer researchers utilizing two different grant mechanisms. This opportunity is restricted to adult cancer research and will fund a range of projects from laboratory-based fundamental research through bench-to-bedside strategies. Note: Research areas not included in this scope for any grant type are epidemiology, behavioral science, and health services research.

• Funding amount: See V Scholar and Translational Award information above
• Award term: See V Scholar and Translational Award information above
• Application window: December - January
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: One

Pediatric Research Grant (V Scholar OR Translational)

This award supports young tenure-track faculty early in their cancer research career by funding projects that are either laboratory-based fundamental research or translational research.

• Funding amount: See V Scholar and Translational Award information above
• Award term: See V Scholar and Translational Award information above
• Application window: February - March
• Number of nominations accepted from UACC: One