Funding Opportunities

[ Limited Submissions | Intramural Awards | Foundations/Other | NIH ]

Intramural Funding Opportunities

For questions about intramural awards, please contact Meredith Donnelly.

• Deadline: Sept 28, 2026
  UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP) Fall 2026 Cycle
  This program offers a single online application process for a variety of intramural grants. Grants of interest include:
  • Pilot Award for Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer
  • Research on Secondhand Tobacco Smoke 
  • Pilot Award in Precision Imaging of Cancer and Therapy
  • Global Cancer Pilot Award
  • Catalyst Accelerator Awards for the Development of Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Digital/Computational Health
  • Pilots for Early Career and Established Investigators
  • and many more!
• Deadline: Oct 1, 2026
  UCSF Center for Reproductive Sciences Request for Pilot Project Proposal
  UCSF faculty are invited to apply for up to $50,000 in pilot funding for innovative research on the immunological, epigenetic, and developmental determinants of fertility and infertility. Proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives are encouraged.
• Deadline: Oct 26, 2026
  UCSF Prostate Cancer Program Pilot Awards
  The UCSF Prostate Cancer Program announces an opportunity for pilot research funding in any area of investigation in prostate cancer. Funds are available to support multiple proposals. All areas of prostate cancer research including computational, laboratory, translational, clinical, and population sciences are eligible.

Foundations/Other Sources

• Deadline: Sept 30, 2026
  Stand Up To Cancer – Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC) and the PNOC Foundation Diffuse Midline Glioma (DMG) Discoveries Challenge
  Funding is available to support highly innovative translational research that provides a step-change improvement in therapy for DMG, including diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). 
• Deadline: Nov 9, 2026
  Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PCAN) Collaborative Catalyst Research Award
  This award aims to progress in pancreatic cancer through collaborative, multi-institutional team science, tackling problems that demand coordinated expertise and are unlikely to be addressed by any single laboratory or investigator alone. This award supports one unified application, not a collection of separate sub-projects.
• Deadline: Nov 13, 2026
  Upstream Research Center Pilot Grants
  The Upstream Research Center, co-led by Stanford, UC Davis, and UCSF, invites applications for pilot grants focused on the social drivers of cancer in areas experiencing persistent poverty. Projects must focus on research relevant to exposures experienced in persistent poverty areas in Northern California.  
• Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
  AACR-Kids Beating Cancer Margaret Guedes Monosomy 7 Legacy Cancer Research Grant
  This grant supports innovative research to improve understanding and treatment of monosomy 7 AML and other rare, high-risk AML subtypes, with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
• Deadline: Dec 9, 2026
  Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PCAN) Career Development Award
  This award aims to encourage and support junior faculty to conduct pancreatic cancer research and establish successful career paths in this field. The research proposed for funding may be basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological in nature and must have direct applicability and relevance to pancreatic cancer.

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.

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