Cancer Center Members Funding Opportunities

Intramural Funding Opportunities

• Deadline: June 16
  UCSF-Sanofi Innovation Awards (iAwards)
  This program supports early stage innovative and translational research proposals from participating academic institutions.The program aims to convert promising projects to longer multi-year programs, with the potential for in-licensing and start-up opportunities.
• Deadline: June 16
  UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences: Trailblazer Award Program
  The Institute’s 2017 Trailblazer Award Program seeks to fund compelling, high risk/high reward research in the neurosciences. Clinical, translational, and basic scientists are all welcome to apply.
• Deadline: July 17
  New Directions in Prostate Cancer Research Awards
  The UCSF Prostate Cancer Program seeks to fund pilot projects in prostate cancer research led by UCSF Faculty, prioritizing young investigators.

Foundations/Other Sources

• Deadline: Ongoing
  Gateway for Cancer Research - Clinical Trials Funding Program [RFA]
  - View FAQs for Researchers
  - Submit LOIs through e-grant management website

• LOI Deadline: June 26
  NCCN and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change: Clinical Pathways in Breast Cancer
  Pfizer Inc. and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) are collaborating to offer a new grant opportunity seeking proposals that use clinical care pathways to address a quality improvement initiative along the continuum of care for breast cancer patients.
• Deadline: June 30
  Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) Convergence Grants
  
  The goal of this program is to develop data- and computation-intensive collaborations that will advance understanding of the human immune system and cancer immunotherapy.  
  Collaborations are available and can be arranged with Microsoft Research researchers and other computer science researchers.
• Deadline: July 15
  Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists
  The Prize is awarded annually to one young scientist for outstanding life science research for which he/she was awarded a doctoral degree in the previous two years. The topic of the entrant's thesis research must be in one of the following categories: Cell and Molecular Biology, Genomics and Proteomics, Ecology and Environment, Translational Medicine.