HWCOM Research Opportunities –
As of July. 2015
Search Engines
 American Association for Cancer Research
http://www.aacr.org/funding/Pages/funding-listing.aspx#.VaAnuRjD_cs
 FIU Office of Research and Economic Development
Weekly Funding Announcements
http://research.fiu.edu/funding/
 Grants.gov
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html
 ProposalCENTRALnon-profits and private organizations - multiple programs and deadlines
https://proposalcentral.altum.com/opportunities.asp
 Siteman Cancer Center – Funding Opportunties in Cancer Research
http://www.siteman.wustl.edu/contentpage.aspx?id=3226
 Stanford School of Medicine Calendar of Funding Opportunities
http://med.stanford.edu/rmg/funding/fundinglist.html
 Trialect
Need to establish login in account (free). Posted Opportunities
http://www.trialect.com/
Monthly Listings
January
 American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/research/researchprogramsfunding/fundingopportunities/indexofgrants/index
Multiple opportunities for all levels of investigators – each have separate LOI and application date:
RESEARCH GRANTS FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS
MENTORED TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
PROFESSORS
NEW INITIATIVES AND REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Application due
April 1
 Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Fellowship Award Application Guidelines
Pediatric Cancer
http://www.damonrunyon.org/for_scientists/more/pediatric_fellowship_award_overview
Candidates must apply for the fellowship under the guidance of a Sponsor
Basic and physician-scientists must have received their degrees no more than one year prior to the FAC
meeting at which their applications are to be considered
Application due
March 17
February
 Breast Cancer Research Foundation
http://www.bcrfcure.org/action_grantguidelines.html
Invited proposal in late Spring
March
 March of Dimes
http://www.marchofdimes.org/research/research-grants.aspx
On-line process by
April 30
 Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation
http://www.ocrf.org/
http://www.ocrf.org/for-grantseekers/application-process
LOI May
 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Grand Challenges - opens in Mar and Nov
deadline May
www.grandchallenges.org/explorations
 Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly known as AICR- Association for International
Cancer Research)
www.aicr.org.uk
http://www.worldwidecancerresearch.org/funding/what-to-consider-before-applying
Spring application due
April 14
April
 Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Target Advancement Program - Pre-proposal
due May 27
https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/grant-detail.php?id=27
May
 Susan G. Komen for the Cure
http://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/FundingOpportunities.html
Requests for Applications open early May- Pre-application
mid-June
 Damon Runyon
Innovation Award Overview
Application due July 1
http://www.damonrunyon.org/for_scientists/more/innovation_award_overview
Applicants must belong to one of the following categories:
o Tenure-track Assistant Professors within the first four years of obtaining their initial Assistant
Professor position. (Cut-off date: July 1, 2011.)
o Clinical Instructors and Senior Clinical Fellows (in the final year of their sub-specialty
training) holding an MD who are pursuing a period of independent research before taking a
tenure-track faculty position. Such individuals must have an exceptional record of research
accomplishment, dedicated laboratory space and the support of their institution.
o Distinguished Fellows with an exceptional record of research accomplishment identified by
their institution to pursue an independent research program and who have dedicated
laboratory space. These candidates are markedly distinct from traditional postdoctoral
fellows. Examples: Whitehead Fellows, UCSF Fellows, Cold Spring Harbor Fellows.
[Research Assistant Professors, Research Associate Professors, Research Scientists and
Postdoctoral Fellows are not eligible
June
 James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program
 Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program LOI DUE JULY 29
http://www.floridahealth.gov/provider-and-partner-resources/research/funding-opportunity.html
James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program supports biomedical, biotechnological, and social
scientific research and development for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of diseases related to
tobacco use
Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program purpose is to advance progress toward cures for cancer through
grants that support biomedical, biotechnological, and social scientific research and development
Discovery Science $1.5 Million 3 year
Research Infrastructure $1.5 Million 3 year
Clinical Research $2 Million 5 year
Bridge Grant, $100K 6 months
 Burroughs Wellcome Fund
http://www.bwfund.org/programs-offered
Start checking in June due in
July/August
 American Association for Cancer Research
http://www.aacr.org/FUNDING/PAGES/DEFAULT.ASPX#.VaAn8RjD_cs
Several research funding opportunities MD and PhD candidates
deadlines July 22
July
 Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research Program: LOI DUE Aug 5
To stimulate research relating to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
that is of the highest priority and potential benefit to the people of Florida
http://www.floridahealth.gov/provider-and-partner-resources/research/funding-opportunity.html
Standard Grant $250K 2 year
Pilot Grant $100K 2 year
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant $100K 2 year
 American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/research/researchprogramsfunding/fundingopportunities/indexofgrants/index
Multiple opportunities for all levels of investigators – each have separate LOI and application date:
RESEARCH GRANTS FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS
MENTORED TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
PROFESSORS
NEW INITIATIVES AND REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Application due
October 15
 American Society of Clinical Oncology
http://www.conquercancerfoundation.org/cancer-professionals/funding-opportunities/open-fundingopportunities
Career Development Award $200K must be a physician (MD, DO, or international equivalent) who is within
the 1st to 3rd year of a full-time, primary faculty appointment in a clinical department at an academic medical
institution
Young Investigator Award $50K must be a physician (MD, DO, or international equivalent) who is currently
within the last two years of his/her final subspecialty training at an academic medical institution
ASCO members
Deadline Sept 24
 Women’s Cancer Network/Foundation for Women’s Cancer
http://www.foundationforwomenscancer.org/research-opportunities/
Research Grant s and Awards Booklet Available July
Abstracts due Aug. 12
 Hope Funds for Cancer Research
http://www.hope-funds.org/grants/eligibility-and-application/
Current postdoctoral scientists must not have been in their Sponsor’s lab for more than two years as of
600 word abstract due Sept 18
 United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
http://www.umdf.org/site/pp.aspx?c=8qKOJ0MvF7LUG&b=7934689
$200k for 1-2 years
LOI due August
August
 Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Target Advancement Program - Pre-proposal
due Oct 28
https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/grant-detail.php?id=27
 Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly known as AICR- Association for International
Cancer Research)
www.aicr.org.uk
http://www.worldwidecancerresearch.org/funding/what-to-consider-before-applying
Fall application due
Oct 30
October

Avon Foundation
http://www.avonfoundation.org/breast-cancer-crusade/breast-cancer-research-program-guidelines.html
Breast Cancer Research start checking in early Fall

LOI due in January
Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation
http://sites.duke.edu/broadfoundation/grants-awards/
Only issued every two years RFP in October 2015
Due February 2016
 Parkinson's Disease Foundation
http://www.pdf.org/en/grant_cycle
International Research Grants Program
LOI due Nov 5
$75K for 2 years
November
 Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Local Miami Dade County Chapter
Deadline Jan 31
http://www.komenmiaftl.org/grants/how-to-apply-for-funding/
 Mary Kay Foundation
Women’s Cancer Research Grant Program
Deadline Feb 2
http://www.marykayfoundation.org/Pages/CancerGrantProgram.aspx
 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Grand Challenges - opens in Mar and Nov
Deadline Jan
www.grandchallenges.org/explorations
 Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test
http://www.earlier.org/grants-and-research/for-researchers
$40K pilot funding Application due
Dec. 1
December
 American Institute for Cancer Research
http://www.aicr.org/research/grant/research_funded_grant_programs.html
Applications open Dec with LOI
January 26
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Cancer
Affiliated with World Cancer Research Fund International (www.wcrf.org) diet/nutrition
Continuously over the year
 American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
http://www.acog.org/About-ACOG/ACOG-Departments/Research-Fellowships-and-Awards/ACOG-ResearchAward-Opportunities
To present all funding opportunities available for our Fellows and Junior Fellows and to allow our funders to
announce educational and investigative grants throughout the year, we will be posting direct links to
available grants on this page
 American Heart Association
http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/ForScientists/ForScientists_UCM_316962_SubHomePage.jsp
 DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/
 Elsa U. Pardee Foundatin
Research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.
http://www.pardeefoundation.org/grants.aspx
Deadlines, Feb 1, Jun 1, Oct 1
 Foundation for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy CurePSP
http://www.psp.org/research/researchers/
NO deadline $100K for up to 3 years
Grant application deadlines are quarterly
15
on January 15, April 15, July 15, October
 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/grants/funding-opportunities.html
 Whitehall Foundation
http://www.whitehall.org/dates/
The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and
vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in
sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior
$75K/yr for 3 years
applications due January 15, April 15, Oct 15
 Zero- The End of Prostate Cancer
Submit abstract to medical director
http://www.zerocancer.org/about/contact-us
http://www.zerocancer.org/zero-research-fund?
sara@zerocancer.org
888 245 9455