Independent Research Grants

The AACR and its partners support independent investigators at all career stages, enabling promising researchers to embark on transformative projects that are expected to lead to significant advances in the field.

Independent research grants are categorized as individual or team science.

Please find our Individual Research Grants below:

• AACR Innovation and Discovery Grant

• AACR-Bristol Myers Squibb Midcareer Female Investigator Grant

• AACR-Debbie’s Dream Foundation Innovation and Discovery Grant

• AACR-KidneyCAN Kidney Cancer Innovation and Discovery Grant

• AACR-Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance-Deborah Mueller Foundation Fund Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Innovation and Discovery Grant

• AACR-Novocure Tumor Treating Fields Research Grant

• AACR-The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research “Science of the Patient” (SOP) Grant

• Friends of the AACR Foundation Party with a Purpose Early Career Investigator Award

• Lustgarten Foundation-Swim Across America-AACR Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection Research Grant

• Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation-AACR Grant

Please find our Team Science Research Grants below:

• Pancreatic Cancer Collective New Therapies Challenge Research Grants

• SU2C Catalyst^® Team Grants

• SU2C Dream Team and Research Team Grants

• SU2C Phillip A. Sharp Awards