Funding Opportunities

UCSF Limited Submission Opportunities

(Applications through UCSF Limited Submission Program)

  • Internal Deadline: May 14, 2025
    V Scholar Cancer Research Award 2025

    The V Foundation is dedicated to supporting careers of future leaders of cancer research. This RFA is specifically for the V Scholar grant and is restricted to adult cancer research that is exploratory or translational in focus.
  • Internal Deadline: May 19, 2025
    Macy Foundation Faculty Scholars

    Purpose: to identify and nurture promising educational innovators in medicine and nursing. Scholars will implement new educational innovations at their home institutions and participate in career development activities.
  • Internal Deadline: May 29, 2025
    Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Medical Research Awards

    Two award tracks are available: (1) The Mainstream/Conventional Research Track provides support for projects related to hematologic malignancies. (2) The Integrative Medicine Research Track supports integrative research projects that explore evidence-based complementary interventions, optimize the manner in which care is delivered, and improve the lives of those living with hematologic malignancies.

Intramural Funding Opportunities

For questions about intramural awards, please contact Meredith Donnelly.

  • Deadline: May 9, 2025
    HDFCCC Molecular Oncology Program Graduate Student Support

    The Molecular Oncology Program is requesting applications from active Molecular Oncology Program members to support graduate students working on cancer-related projects, who are at risk of not completing their PhD.
  • 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.
  • Deadline: July 8, 2025
    HDFCCC Mesothelioma Research RFA

    Through a generous donation, 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: October 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

  • Deadline: May 12, 2025
    Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Career Development Award

    Winn CDA is a two-year program designed to support the career development of early-stage investigator physicians who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM) OR who have a demonstrated commitment to increasing diversity in clinical research.
  • Deadline: May 13, 2025
    Pfizer Independent Medical Education: Cancer Cachexia

    Pfizer Independent Medical Education has issued a request for applications for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Cachexia. UCSF applicants should email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed.
  • Deadline: May 29, 2025
    AACR Career Development Awards in Lung Cancer Research
    This program supports early-career investigators to conduct lung cancer research and establish successful careers in this field. The proposed project may be basic, translational, clinical, or population-based research in nature and must have direct applicability and relevance to lung cancer.
  • Deadline: June 1, 2025
    Yosemite-American Cancer Society Award

    This year's award supports innovative cancer research with a translational emphasis on cancer vaccines and antibody-drug conjugates.
  • Deadline: June 9, 2025
    NCCN and Pfizer Metastatic Breast Cancer (mBC) Research Grant Opportunity
    A new grant opportunity to support the development of innovative, impactful, scalable, and sustainable quality improvement projects to advance the delivery of quality care to people with mBC.
  • Deadline: June 22, 2025
    Michelson Medical Research Foundation - Next Generation Grants

    These awards support promising researchers applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases. UCSF applicants should email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed.
  • Deadline: July 25, 2025
    Concern Foundation Conquer Cancer Now Awards

    By specifically targeting promising early-career scientists and providing critically needed seed money for innovative projects, this program is intended to support the development of the next generation of cancer researchers and thus promote progress in understanding cancer biology and improved approaches to cancer. UCSF applicants should email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed.

NIH Announcements

If you are a Cancer Center member who is interested in applying and receiving grant writing support, please contact Erin Bank.

To view NCI funding opportunities, search here