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 Career Development Award to Further Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• AACR Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award

• AACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research

• AACR-Aflac, Inc. Career Development Award for Pediatric Cancer Research

• AACR-AstraZeneca Career Development Award for Physician-Scientists, in honor of José Baselga

• AACR-Debbie’s Dream Foundation Career Development Award for Gastric Cancer Research

• AACR-MPM Oncology Charitable Foundation Transformative Cancer Research Grant

• AACR-Novocure Career Development Awards for Tumor Treating Fields Research
  
• AACR-Ocular Melanoma Foundation Career Development Award

• AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant 

• Beginning Investigator Grant for Catalytic Research (BIG Cat)

• Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Translational Breast Cancer Research
• Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award to Promote Diversity and Inclusion
• Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Career Development Awards for Pancreatic Cancer Research

• Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award, in Partnership with Pelotonia & AACR