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). - 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 14, 2025
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Endeavor Awards
The Mark Foundation Endeavor Awards support collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts. - 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: 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
AI & Computational Cancer Research Request for Ideas
The Center for Cancer Data Science (CCDS), a partnership between the Cancer Center and Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, is requesting applications for project ideas in AI & computational cancer research that harness data available in Cancer Commons. The purpose of this RFI is to create an opportunity for UCSF cancer researchers who may not have programming expertise to identify innovative project ideas and leverage the multimodal cancer data assets available in Cancer Commons. All technical expertise will be provided by the CCDS. If selected, both CCDS and the UCSF cancer researcher will work together to complete the project. - 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. - 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
- Deadline: July 15, 2025
NCCN and Novartis Quality Improvement Project: Patient-Centered Quality Improvement Across the Breast Cancer Continuum
A new funding opportunity to support Quality Improvement projects that will optimize the care and outcomes across the breast cancer (BC) continuum including, but not limited to, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. - 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.
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