Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Research Grants and Fellowships Program

Deadline: 11-Jul-23

The Prevent Cancer Foundation is seeking applications for its Research Grants and Fellowships Program to identify and provide funding for innovative projects with the potential to make substantial contributions to cancer prevention and early detection.

Funding Information

Fellowships will be awarded for two years at $50,000 per year, for a total of $100,000.

Eligible Projects

Cancer Sites
- If successful, research projects reduce the frequency of epithelial neoplasms: e.g., brain, head and neck, lung, breast, prostate, uterus, cervix, ovary, esophagus, stomach, colon, pancreas, liver, skin (including melanoma), HPV-related cancers or hematologic malignancies.
Primary Research
- Reverse or inhibit the carcinogenic process through modifications to diet, tobacco use, physical activity, or alcohol use or to environment including ultraviolet or occupational exposure.
  - Examples of methodology: behavioral, including the use of social media or texting, or pharmacologic (chemopreventive) or immunologic approaches.
Secondary Research screening and early detection
- Examples of methodology: immunologic, molecular, genetic or imaging (including endoscopic) techniques. Approaches using innovative technologies, including social media, health trackers or artificial intelligence, to study topics such as how to overcome barriers to screening or to reduce disparities in screening.
An eligible proposal must demonstrate substantial potential for impact on prevention and early detection of cancer.

Eligibility Criteria

Fellowship proposals must include information about the training environment, course work and opportunities for mentorship and professional growth of the applicant.
Proposals must fall within the scope of the Foundation’s mission and funding priorities to be considered. The issue of relevance to cancer prevention or early detection must be convincingly addressed in the proposal.
Applicants need not be United States citizens. However, research must be conducted primarily in the United States.
Fellowship Eligibility
- Fellowship support should be requested by the potential Fellow (who is considered the applicant for the project) and not by the Mentor.
- Letter of support from the Mentor is required. The letter should describe the support that the Mentor will provide in all aspects of the Fellowship, including supervision of coursework, the career development plan for the next 3 years and the benefits that the training environment will offer to the Fellowship applicant. Letters of support from fellowship mentors are required to address the independent contributions of the fellowship applicant.
- The Fellow should have only one primary Mentor. However, listing other key personnel (i.e., co-investigators or co-directors) in the budget is acceptable.

Ineligible

Basic science (in vitro) studies, even if meritorious, are outside the scope of this funding mechanism and will not be reviewed.
Proposals from fellowship applicants or their mentors who have been funded by the tobacco or vaping industries will not be considered.
Studies related to therapy for established or advanced cancer are not appropriate.
An incomplete proposal, such as one missing key personnel biosketches or lacking a biostatistical analysis, will not be considered.
Resubmission of same or slightly changed proposals will not be accepted for this 2023 cycle.

For more information, visit Prevent Cancer Foundation.