Many fellowship programs offer protected research time for clinical fellows to participate in laboratory and clinic-based research as well as their medical training and patient care. This research experience allows clinical fellows to keep abreast of recent medical advancements...
Dedicated to accelerating the conquest of cancer, the AACR is a unique organization committed to funding research projects across all cancer sites and researchers at all career levels. In partnership with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), a nationwide organization dedicated to pancreatic cancer, the AACR-PanCAN Pathway to Leadership Grant was established in 2010. Running until 2017, the joint program offered $600,000 over five years to facilitate the career transition of pancreatic cancer researchers from postdoctoral/clinical research fellow to independent faculty.
The AACR-CRUK Transatlantic Fellowships support promising postdoctoral cancer researchers at US and UK research institutions to carry out a portion of their postdoctoral research at a research institution in the UK or the US, respectively. The AACR-CRUK fellows share the impact of this unique program on their careers and research.
The 2020 AACR-The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research “Science of the Patient” SOP Grants Program seeks to stimulate novel research on the interplay between patient physiology and the tumor. The five grantees have been conducting breakthrough research -- studying cancer not as an isolated phenomenon but as a systemic disease.
The AACR and Bayer have been collaborating since 2015 to support the most promising and innovative cancer-focused research through different grant mechanisms. This partnership has yielded significant fruits, as indicated in this article.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is proud to announce a new collaboration with a grants program aimed at reducing the burden of cancer in Africa. In 2010, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Global Health (CGH), in partnership...
October is breast cancer awareness month. Researchers supported by the partnership between the AACR and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation have made progress in the understanding and treatment of breast cancer on multiple fronts.
October is breast cancer awareness month. Researchers supported by the partnership between the AACR and the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Foundation have made progress against triple-negative breast cancer on multiple fronts.
In recognition of the need to advance the science of lung cancer prevention and interception, the 2019 AACR-J&J Lung Cancer Innovation Science Grants program awarded grants to two multi-institutional teams whose multifaceted projects seek to understand how an individual’s genetics may affect smoking-related behaviors and quit attempts, as well as to develop clinically actionable smoking cessation strategies that will improve patient outcomes.
The partnership of the AACR with QuadW reflects the commitment of both organizations to make a difference in the lives of sarcoma patients by supporting the next generation of cancer researchers who are focused on sarcoma research.