Funding Opportunities

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UCSF Limited Submission Opportunities

(Applications through UCSF Limited Submission Program)

  • Internal Deadline: July 11, 2025
    Mathers Grants Summer/Fall 2025
    The Foundation primarily supports basic science, ideally with potential translational applications, in research areas such as immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, and more. 
  • Internal Deadline: July 11, 2025
    Searle Scholars Program
    Supports the independent research of 15 outstanding early-career scientists each year who have recently been appointed as assistant professors (tenure-track). The program is primarily interested in applicants' potential to make innovative and high-impact contributions to research over an extended period of time.
  • Internal Deadline: July 11, 2025
    Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program
    Supports research scientists in the early stages of their careers. Fields of research are cancer, immunology and neuroscience.
  • Internal Deadline: July 14, 2025
    Curing Kids Cancer Grant 2025
    Aims to overcome barriers to clinical application of new treatment approaches for childhood cancer. The main areas of focus are cancer immunotherapy/targeted therapy; high-grade brain tumors or other difficult-to-treat pediatric cancers; and epigenetic modifying therapy or gene editing.
  • Internal Deadline: July 18, 2025
    Cookies for Kids' Cancer Clinical and Translational Research Awards
    Supports peer-reviewed, cutting-edge clinical and translational research efforts at leading children’s cancer centers.
  • Internal Deadline: July 18, 2025
    Kleberg Medical Research Program (Fall)
    Seeking highly innovative and groundbreaking medical research proposals in both basic biological and applied research that will have the greatest impact on scientific knowledge and human health.
  • Internal Deadline: July 18, 2025
    NIH 23-248 Institutional Network Award for Promoting Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Research Training (U2C - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    This award invites Institutional Network Awards (U2C-TL1) to cultivate a highly integrated cohort of trainees and early career investigators and to develop career development resources to accelerate kidney, urologic, and hematologic research. Able to contribute to advancing research in kidney, urology, and hematology.

Intramural Funding Opportunities

For questions about intramural awards, please contact Meredith Donnelly.

  • Deadline: June 30, 2025
    UCSF Prostate Cancer SPORE Awards
    Two funding opportunities are available through the UCSF Prostate Cancer SPORE: (1) Career Enhancement Program RFA and (2) Developmental Research Program RFA.
  • Informational Session: June 30, 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.
  • Deadline: July 7, 2025
    HDFCCC Survivorship and Symptom Science (SASS) Research Hub RFA
    The HDFCCC Survivorship and Symptom Science (SASS) Hub is seeking proposals for seed funding for pilot projects in survivorship and symptoms science.
  • Deadline: July 8, 2025
    HDFCCC Mesothelioma Research RFA
    The cancer center is requesting applications for funding of projects to study mesothelioma. Applications can focus on any aspect of the disease including basic, translational, clinical and population sciences approaches but they should have an expectation to contribute to improved outcomes for the disease in the future.
  • Deadline: July 15, 2025
    Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation 2025
    Seeks to fuel innovation in precision medicine by fostering creative, high risk, high impact team science projects supporting the precision medicine continuum. The Marcus Program invites proposals in four award categories: Seeding Bold Ideas, Transformative Integrated Research, ELSI in Precision Medicine, and IDEA in Precision Medicine Research.
  • Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
    UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE Developmental Research Program (DRP) Awards
    A component of the UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE, the Developmental Research Program (DRP) offers funds to both new and established investigators to initiate translationally oriented research projects that have the potential to impact the diagnosis or therapy of human brain tumors.
  • Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
    UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE Career Enhancement Program (CEP) Awards
    A component of the UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE, the Career Enhancement Program (CEP) aims to attract outstanding basic scientists and clinical investigators to the field of brain tumor research, to assist in the career development of junior faculty in the basic and clinical sciences, and to encourage collaborations between investigators which can lead to new ideas and directions in brain tumor research and can contribute to career development.
  • 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.

Foundations/Other Sources

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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