Private
Foundations Funding Cancer Research
American
Cancer Society
As the nation's largest
private, not-for-profit source of funds for scientists studying
cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) focuses its funding on
investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed proposals.
The
Charlotte Geyer Foundation
The Charlotte Geyer Foundation
provides interim funding up to $100,000 to researchers who have
submitted an original R01 or R21 proposal to the National Cancer
Institute and have not received a fundable score.
Concern
Foundation
Concern Foundation specifically
funds researchers who lack financial support for their first major
research project and provides critically needed start up funds for
promising projects.
The
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
The Damon Runyon Cancer
Research Foundation encourages the nation's most promising young
investigators to pursue careers in cancer research by funding initial
postdoctoral Fellowship Awards, Innovation Awards and Clinical Investigator
Awards.
Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation
The Medical Research
Program strives to accomplish its mission by supporting clinical
research that advances the translation of basic biomedical discoveries
into applications that improve human health.
Fannie
E. Rippel Foundation
The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation
invests in efforts that: challenge existing paradigms, provide highly
innovative and actionable alternatives to current beliefs and behaviors,
create and support new modes of leadership, and foster dynamic synergies
that offer model processes for change.
The
Lance Armstrong Foundation
The Lance Armstrong Foundation
funds cancer survivorship research that builds on the body of knowledge
and services to improve quality of life for cancer survivors across
physical, psychosocial and practical challenges.
They also fund community-based
participatory research (CBPR), through which community members and
researchers collaborate in a mutual learning process to research
and solve survivorship issues identified by the community.
The
Lustgarten Foundation
The Lustgarten Foundation
supports projects at both domestic and international institutions,
and grant recipients represent a full array of disciplines.
The
National Pancreas Foundation
The National Pancreas
Foundation (NPF) is a private, non-profit organization established
to support the funding of research related to pancreatic diseases.
National
Foundation for Cancer Research
NFCR believes in discovery-oriented
basic science research and provides flexible funding to scientists
from various disciplines such as math, physics, biology, and chemistry.
The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation seeks to improve health and health care of all Americans.
Hirshberg
Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
The Hirshberg Foundation
supports basic science, translational research and most recently
started a tissue bank at UCLA.
Sidney
Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research
The Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research funds the Kimmel
Scholars Program, which each year, through a distinguished medical
board of advisors, provides research grants to the nation's most
promising young cancer researchers.
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