Career Development Awards
A burgeoning cancer workforce is critical to address the projected global cancer burden. With its funding partners, the AACR provides early-career investigators with the resources to jump-start their research and their careers. It is our hope that our career development award recipients will leverage our support to secure additional funding and continue to advance the field of cancer research, with the goal of making a significant impact for cancer patients.
Active Career Development Awards
- AACR Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award
Duration: one year.
- AACR-Aflac, Inc. Career Development Award for Pediatric Cancer Research Duration: two years.
- AACR-MPM Oncology Charitable Foundation Transformative Cancer Research Grant
Duration: two years.
Additional detail: “high-risk, high-reward” research that might not be funded through conventional channels.
- AACR-Novocure Career Development Awards for Tumor Treating Fields Research
Duration: three years.
Research focus: Tumor Treating Fields (intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells).
- AACR-Ocular Melanoma Foundation Career Development Award
Duration: two years.
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Translational Breast Cancer Research
Duration: two years.
Research focus: discovery, development, and application of new agents to treat breast cancer and/or pre-clinical research with direct therapeutic intent.