UCSF Limited Submission Opportunities
(Applications through UCSF Limited Submission Program)
- Internal Deadline: Oct 8, 2025
Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
This program supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented cancer research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity.
Intramural Funding Opportunities
For questions about intramural awards, please contact Meredith Donnelly.
- Deadline: Sept 29, 2025
UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP) Fall 2025 Cycle
The UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP) offers a single online application process for a variety of intramural grants. View the list of grant mechanisms. - Deadline: Oct 13, 2025
UCSF Prostate Cancer Program Pilot Awards
All areas of prostate cancer research including computational, laboratory, translational, clinical, and population sciences are eligible. Please note that this is a call for primary research proposals, and the opportunity is not intended to support resource or infrastructure development. - Deadline: Oct 27, 2025
UCSF Breast Oncology Program’s Research Development Program
The UCSF Breast Oncology Program’s Research Development Program is requesting proposals for new research projects in breast cancer, with a focus on metastatic disease. High risk/high payoff pilot projects are encouraged. - Deadline: Nov 14, 2025
Upstream Research Center Pilot Grants
The Upstream Research Center, co-led by Stanford, UC Davis, and UCSF, is awarding up to $75,000 each for three impact-focused research projects to reduce cancer inequities due to structural and social determinants, including, but not limited to, structural racism, poverty, income inequality, climate change, food insecurity, social isolation, and/or housing insecurity. Projects must focus on research relevant to exposures experienced in persistent poverty areas in Northern California.
Foundations/Other Sources
- LOI Deadline: Oct 7, 2025
CureSearch Catapult Award in Pediatric Cancer
The goal of this program is to advance the development of promisinOg oncology research out of the lab and into clinical trials, with the ultimate goal of improving clinical outcomes in childhood cancer patients and making more effective and less toxic treatments widely available. - LOI Deadline: Nov 3, 2025
2026 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize
Now open to all institutions in the USA, this prize will award $750,000 over three years to empower awardees to pursue groundbreaking research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. A minimum of six prizes will be awarded, depending on the quality of the proposals. - Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Supporting Innovative Cancer Research
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation has issued a request for applications for cancer research grants. Proposed projects may be relevant to any area of cancer detection, treatment, or cure. Funding is intended to allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers, and lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding.
NIH Announcements
If you are a Cancer Center member who is interested in applying and receiving grant writing support, please contact Erin Bank.
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