UCSF Limited Submission Opportunities
(Applications through UCSF Limited Submission Program)
- Internal Deadline: Sept 17, 2025
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research 2026 Rally Career Development Award
Rally aims to support the development of independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. Rally Career Development Awards are intended to take an investigator from mentorship to independence by providing the opportunity to develop independent research through protected time. - Internal Deadline: Sept 19, 2025
Global Climate Research Prize 2025
A biennial environmental award for academic institutions' researchers of any career stage who have already published, top-quality research which has transformative and transboundary implications for addressing climate change-induced issues globally. It will have an unusually broad remit, from advances in atmospheric physics to works of cultural history and literature.
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: 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: October 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.
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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