Pfizer, Inc. Investigator Initiated Research (IRR) Program

Supports clinical studies, observational studies, other types of independent research on disease states, and in vitro or animal studies.

The Gateway's Research Funding Program

Supports patient-centered research having a positive impact the lives of cancer patients.

Functional Characterization of Oral Cancer Initiating Cells

Translational projects in oral cancer aimed at understanding the cellular, molecular and functional properties of oral Cancer Initiating Cells (CICs)and their niches.

CDMRP Prostate Cancer Research Program Physician Research Training

A mentored training experience to prepare physicians with clinical duties for productive careers in prostate cancer research.

Revision Applications to Promote Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN): Comorbidity-Related Research

Support revisions to augment existing R01 research projects to meet the goals of the CRAN; namely, the support of research in cross-cutting areas of substance use, abuse, addiction and related health consequences.

Project and budget periods must be within the currently approved project period for the existing parent award.
  

Prevent Cancer Foundation Research Grants

Grant proposals will be considered in the following categories:

- Basic, clinical, translational and population-based research projects
- Education programs in cancer prevention
- Early detection projects
- Behavioral intervention projects

Please note there is a $50 application fee.

Prevent Cancer Foundation Fellowships

Basic science grants must demonstrate substantial potential for impact on prevention or early detection of cancer (specifically, pre-clinical research is acceptable but must be prevention oriented and clearly identifiable as translational).

Please note there is a $50 application fee.
  

Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR): Mentored Research Scientist Development Awards

To strengthen the pool of researchers available to conduct PHSSR and to build on successful principles and models previously demonstrated in public health and health services research.

Person-Centered Outcomes Research Resource (PCORR)

To support the creation of a research resource infrastructure for the administration of research investigations using person-centered outcomes.

AGA R. Robert and Sally Funderburg Research Award in Gastric Cancer

This funding supports novel approaches in gastric cancer research.

PhRMA Foundation Funding Opportunities in Informatics and Pharmacology/Toxicology Research

Offers support in three categories: pre-doctoral fellowships, postdoc fellowships and research starter grants in the areas of Informatics and Pharmacology/Toxicology research.

Each opportunity has slightly different eligibility requirements. Please review each carefully.
 

Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award in Tobacco Control Regulatory Research

To prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on and will inform development and evaluation of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution and marketing, this program provides support and protected time to individuals with a clinical doctoral degree.
  

Transition Career Development Award in Tobacco Control Regulatory Research

Supporting transition of investigators in mentored, non-independent research positions to independent faculty research positions informing the development and evaluation of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing.

Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Control Regulatory Research

The purpose of the Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Control Regulatory Research is to provide support and protected time for a supervised career development experience in research in biomedical, behavioral, and social science research that will inform the development and evaluation of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing and that will lead to research independence.

Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Control Regulatory Research

Program is designated to facilitate a timely transition from a mentored postdoctoral research position to a stable independent research position with independent NIH or other independent research support at an earlier stage than is currently the norm.

Transformative Research Awards

Support groundbreaking, original research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms. Little or no preliminary data are expected.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships

Provide support postdoctoral fellows and clinical fellows in basic and clinical research projects that have potential to reduce breast cancer incidence and/or mortality.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation Career Catalyst Research Grants

Provide support to Junior Faculty in Basic and Translational or Clinical research projects that have potential to reduce breast cancer incidence and/or mortality.

Lymphoma Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

To support laboratory or clinic based research relevant to the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of Hodgkin and/or non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Lymphoma Research Foundation Clinical Investigator Career Development

To fund training of physician investigators who will participate in developing new therapeutics and diagnostic tools for lymphoma.

American Association for Cancer Research Team Science Award

Recognize an outstanding interdisciplinary research team for its innovative science that has advanced the knowledge of cancer or a team that has applied existing knowledge to advance the detection, diagnosis, prevention or treatment of cancer.

CONquer canCER Now Award

Funding for new investigators studying many forms of cancer, primarily in the areas of immunology, immunotherapy, and the genetics of cancer.

Decreasing Patient Radiation Dose from CT Imaging: Achieving Sub-mSv Studies

Supports research leading to reduction of patient radiation exposure from a routine CT scan to exposures of  <1 mSv.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Career Development Program

Supports basic and clinical research in genetics, molecular and cell biology, molecular pharmacology, molecular virology and immunology, and translational research directly relevant to treatment or diagnosis of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma and, where applicable, to prevention.

Quality of Life Research Funding Initiative - within the categories below, can also apply for this initiative that is a component of the Career Development Program.
  

CDMRP Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Barbara Terry-Komoma Health Disparity Research

Supports new ideas based on innovative concepts for prostate cancer health disparity research.

New Investigator Option allows applications from early stage investigators. Proposals will be peer and programmatically reviewed separately.

Nested Health Disparity Traineeship Option allows for training highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to pursue a career in resolving disparities in prostate cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality.

CDMRP - Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Prostate Cancer Clinical Consortium

Provides support for resources for a network of organizations to rapidly execute Phase II or Phase I/II prostate cancer clinical trials.

CDMRP-Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Prostate Cancer Pathology Resource Network

To provide infrastructure for the development and maintenance of a prostate cancer biorepository.

The Hope Funds for Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellowship

To support innovative projects challenging traditional paradigms of understanding the causes, mechanisms, progression, disease markers or risk factors of difficult-to-treat cancers.

Administrative Supplements to Promote Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN): Comorbidity-Related Research

Administrative support to parent awards to meet the goals of CRAN; the support of research in cross-cutting areas of substance use, abuse, addiction and related health consequences.

Conquer Cancer Foundation Merit Award

For fellows & residents whose research is addressed in high-quality abstracts submitted to an ASCO Meeting and recognized for its scientific merit. Consideration for a Merit Award is available on the abstract submitter for the appropriate meeting. For more information, visit ASCO Meetings.

CLL Global Research Foundation Research Grants

Support scientists with innovative ideas for improving treatment, monitoring or diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL); these funds are intended for use as accelerant support for previously initiated projects with an emphasis on ideas that can reach the clinic within 2-3 years.

American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS/IRG) - Cycle 33

Provides seed money for young investigators interested in cancer related-research.

The Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF)

Support projects in life sciences: biochemistry, cell biology, developmental, molecular, structural, endocrinology, immunology, microbiology, neurobiology, physiology, or virology.

Physical Activity and Weight Control Interventions Among Cancer Survivors: Effects on Biomarkers of Prognosis and Survival

Transdisciplinary and translational research to identify specific biological or biobehavioral pathways through which physical activity and/or weight control may affect cancer prognosis and survival.

Aging Studies in the Pulmonary System

Explore age-associated mechanisms in pulmonary physiology, pathology and function, and their relationship to respiratory diseases that commonly occur in older populations.

Chronic Inflammation and Age-related Disease

Origins and effects of low level chronic inflammation in the onset and progression of age-related diseases and conditions.

Building Evidence: Effective Palliative/End of Life Care Interventions

To stimulate research that develops and tests optimal palliative and end of life care interventions based on measurable outcomes.

Career Development Award in Biomedical Informatics

Provide support and "protected time" for an intensive career development experience in biomedical informatics.

The Role of Microbial Metabolites in Cancer Prevention and Etiology

Stimulate preclinical and clinical research to describe the effect of microbially generated metabolites in cancer prevention/progression

Moffitt Cancer Center Clinical Trial Funding Opportunity

Emphasis on increasing minority accrual & utilization of Total Cancer Care - Proposals for investigator-initiated Phase 0, I, or II therapeutic or supportive care clinical trials likely to lead to increased minority subject accrual.
  

Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Opportunities

American Cancer Society Requests for Proposals

Suspension of the Spring 2013 application deadline caused some applicants' eligibility to expire. Therefore, the available time to apply is automatically extended by six months for those whose eligibility ended in April 2013 or will end in October 2013.
 

Mentored Research Scholar Grand

Provides support for mentored research and training to full-time Junior Faculty
 

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Provides support for postdoctoral fellows who are seeking an independent career in research. 
 

Research Scholar Grants

Support investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum.  

Cancer Control Career Development Awards for Primary Care Physicians

Support primary care physicians who are pursuing a career in academic career with an emphasis on cancer control.

Bonnie J. Addario lung Cancer Foundation Young Investigators Award

Funding used primarily for research support, including technical assistance, supplies, reagents, and equipment for the development of personalized oncology for Lung Cancer patients.

American Gastroenterological Association Foundation Research Scholar Awards Supports the development of independent research careers in digestive diseases, including gastric cancer.  
 

NIMHD Social, Behavioral, Health Services, and Policy Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Supports projects examining understudied health conditions; the effectiveness of interventions, services, or policies for multiple health disparity populations; and/or directly measuring the impact of project activities on levels of health disparities.

Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing in the Biomedical Sciences -Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)

BD2K Centers of Excellence to conduct research to advance the science of Big Data in the context of biomedical and behavioral research, and to create innovative new approaches, methods, software, tools, and related resources.

Basic and Applied Biomedical Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Supports both biological and genetic research to explore disease mechanisms to influence, and clinical and translational research linking basic science discovery with effective treatment or clinical practice to improve health outcomes in minority health disparity populations.

NLM Administrative Supplements for Informationist Services in NIH-funded Research Projects

Provide funds to supported research and center grants in order to enhance the storage, organization, management and use of electronic research data through the involvement of informationists, also known as in-context information specialists.

Only one application per parent award is allowed.
  

Revisions for Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technology R01

Revision applications (formerly "competing revisions") from currently funded NCI R01 and R37 (MERIT) research projects for early-stage development of informatics technologies.

Advanced Development of Informatics Technology U24

Support advanced development of informatics technologies to improve acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data in cancer research.

Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technology U01

Development of enabling informatics technologies focused on early-stage development from prototyping to hardening and adaptation.

Revisions for Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technology P01

Revisions from currently funded NCI U01 cooperative agreement projects for early-stage development of enabling informatic technologies.

Please note: Parent project must be an active NCI R01 or R37 project.  There must be at least 12 months remaining on the project when the application is submitted.

Revisions for Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technology (P01)

Revisions from currently funded NCI P01 program projects for early-stage development of informatics technologies.

Collaborative Research in Integrative Cancer Biology

To encourage new research into integrative cancer biology by fostering collaborations between investigators currently supported through the Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP) and those currently unaffiliated with the ICBP.

Image-guided Drug Delivery in Cancer

Supports innovative projects focused on image-guided drug delivery (IGDD), including real-time image guidance, monitoring, quantitative in vivo characterizations and validation of delivery and response.
  

Small Grants Program for Epidemiology

Support for pilot projects, testing new techniques, secondary analyses of existing data, development and validation of measurement methods, linkage of genetic polymorphisms with other variables related to cancer risk, and development of innovative projects for more comprehensive research in cancer etiology and epidemiology

Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities

Encourage applications from investigators interested in conducting basic, mechanistic research into the biologic/genetic causes of cancer health disparities.

Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research Pilot Study Program
Competitions open September 1

Support promising pilot studies in ovarian cancer to lay the groundwork for major research initiatives.

Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Scientific Scholar Award
Competitions open September 1  

Assist promising laboratory and clinical scientists in pursuing a career as an independent investigator in ovarian cancer research.

Tobacco Control Regulatory Research

Encourage biomedical, behavioral, and social science research that will inform the development and evaluation of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing.

Questions? MRISignals@moffitt.org