UCSF Limited Submission Opportunities
(Applications through UCSF Limited Submission Program)
- Internal Deadline: Oct 27, 2025
UCOP Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards
Designed to accelerate milestone accomplishments and highlight the breadth of excellence within UC's professoriate, this award provides a one-time $50,000 allocation to support early career faculty research and creative activity across the ten UC campuses. - Internal Deadline: Oct 28, 2025
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Young Investigator Award
This program aims to identify and fund top investigators in the early stages of their careers interested in participating and contributing to cancer research. - Internal Deadline: Oct 29, 2025
W.M. Keck Foundation Medical Research and Science & Engineering Awards
This program aims to advance the frontiers of medicine, science, and engineering to benefit humanity by supporting pioneering high-risk/high-impact research projects. The Keck Foundation is looking for high-risk, novel, unique projects that have potentially transformative and broad impact across many fields. Proposals should not be disease-specific and should not be federally fundable.
Intramural Funding Opportunities
For questions about intramural awards, please contact Meredith Donnelly.
- Deadline: Oct 27, 2025
UCSF Breast Oncology Program’s Research Development Program
The UCSF Breast Oncology Program’s Research Development Program is requesting proposals for new research projects in breast cancer, with a focus on metastatic disease. High risk/high payoff pilot projects are encouraged. - Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
Lopker Family Foundation RFA
Thanks to a generous gift from the Lopker Family Foundation, the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is requesting applications for investigators with on-going translational research projects that could have immediate clinical impact. Projects that address reverse translation will also be responsive. - 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. - Deadline: Nov 21, 2025
Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research Awards
Through a generous philanthropic gift, the Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research is requesting applications for funding to support research aimed at improving outcomes for aggressive prostate cancer including the development of new therapies. Applications are welcome for projects in basic laboratory, computational, or translational research directly related to prostate cancer. - Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
Computational Cancer Research RFA
The Center for Cancer Data Science, a partnership between The Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, is requesting applications for projects in computational cancer research that harness data available in Information Commons/Cancer Commons. - Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
UPCC Early Detection Award
The UC Pancreatic Cancer Consortium (UCPCC) proposes to fund a two-year pilot project in a novel area of early detection for pancreatic cancer. Preference will be given to collaborations across two or more UC cancer centers although single principal investigators may apply.
Foundations/Other Sources
- LOI Deadline: Nov 3, 2025
2026 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize
Now open to all institutions in the USA, this prize will award $750,000 over three years to empower awardees to pursue groundbreaking research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. A minimum of six prizes will be awarded, depending on the quality of the proposals. UCSF researchers, please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply. - Deadline: Nov 13, 2025
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funding Opportunities in Synthetic BIology and Spatial Omics
Two funding mechanisms are currently available: (1) Advancing Technologies for Spatiotemporal Omics in Live Tissue and (2) Implementation of Synthetic Biology Principles in Immunology. UCSF applicants, please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply. - Deadline: Nov 25, 2025
Decision Making, Quality of Life, and Outcome Improvement Initiatives in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
This RFP invites investigators to develop and submit proposals for innovative decision making, quality of life (QOL), and outcome improvement projects to optimize the care of patients with CML. - Deadline: Dec 2, 2025
Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Program
This program was established to recruit outstanding U.S. Specialty Board eligible physicians into cancer research careers by providing them with the opportunity for a protected research training experience under the mentorship of a highly qualified and gifted mentor after they have completed all of their clinical training. - Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Supporting Innovative Cancer Research
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation has issued a request for applications for cancer research grants. Proposed projects may be relevant to any area of cancer detection, treatment, or cure. Funding is intended to allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers, and lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding.
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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