AACR Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to Postdoctoral Fellows and Clinical Research Fellows who are working at an academic facility, teaching hospital, or research institution and who will be in the first, second, or third year of their postdoctoral training at the start of the fellowship term. 

Fellowships support the salary and benefits of the Fellow, with partial funds (up to 25% of the total grant) permitted to be designated to direct research expenses. 

Applications must be completed online using the proposalCENTRAL website, with one paper copy submitted to the AACR office. Application instructions and program guidelines are available below and on the proposalCENTRAL website.

Open Applications:

AACR-National Brain Tumor Society Fellowship, in memory of Bonnie Brooks 
One-year grant of $40,000. Two Fellowships will be awarded this cycle. 

Application Deadline: August 10, 2009 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time

• Program Guidelines and Application Instructions

Closed Applications:

Decision Date: April 1, 2009
Start of Grant Term: July 1, 2009

AACR Basic Cancer Research Fellowships (joint application for the following Fellowships)

• AACR Anna D. Barker Fellowship in Basic Cancer Research: One-year grant of $40,000. One Fellowship will be awarded this cycle.
• AACR-Astellas USA Foundation Fellowships in Basic Cancer Research: One-year grant of $30,000. Two Fellowships will be awarded this cycle.

Application Deadline: December 10, 2008 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time.

• Program Guidelines and Application Instructions

AACR Clinical/Translational Research Fellowships (joint application for the following Fellowships)

• AACR-Astellas USA Foundation Fellowship in Clinical/Translational Cancer Research: One-year grant of $30,000. One fellowship will be awarded this cycle.
• AACR-Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Fellowship in Clinical Cancer Research: One-year grant of $40,000. One Fellowship will be awarded this cycle.
• AACR-AstraZeneca Fellowship for Translational Lung Cancer Research: Two-year grant of $90,000. One Fellowship will be awarded this cycle.

Application Deadline: December 10, 2008 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time. 

• Program Guidelines and Application Instructions

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Fellowship, in memory of Samuel Stroum
One-year grant of $45,000. U.S. institutions only. One Fellowship will be awarded this cycle.

Application Deadline: November 10, 2008 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time.

• Program Guidelines and Application Instructions

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