The Cancer Research Foundation makes ad hoc grants to support groundbreaking research projects in science. The latest of this is the Interdisciplinary Leukemia Project, a six-part, systems-based interdisciplinary attack on therapy based Acute Myloid Leukemia, a secondary cancer that strikes 8 to 10% of cancer survivors.
December 13, 2011
After 25 years, Young Investigator Awards post a 4700% return on investment.
November 20, 2011
The Cancer Research Foundation is pleased to announce this year's Young Investigator Awards
November 17, 2011
Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigators are required to submit an interim report on the progress they are making in their funded research. The Cancer Research Foundation is pleased to present interim reports from the Young Investigator Award winners named in the fall of 2010.
Young Investigator Awards are one-year annual grants of $75,000 given to scientists at the beginning of their research careers. Applicants are post-MD and/or PhD cancer researchers who are doing first-project independent research under the guidance of mentors. If this research yields positive results, it can be used to apply for subsequent research grants.
The Fletcher Scholars Award is a $100,000 grant to be given to a senior cancer scientist doing research of exceptional importance. The Fletcher Award was established in 1988 with a generous gift from the estate of Eugene and Dorothy S. Fletcher and is awarded every other year from a fund created to support this prize.
The Bernice Goldblatt Fellowship funds one University of Chicago student each year in the M.D./Ph.D. program. Established in 1997 with a permanent endowment, this grant is awarded annually by the University of Chicago Committee on Cancer Biology to support a first-year graduate student in the Biological Sciences Division.
For more than 60 years, the Cancer Research Foundation has supported scientists working to make groundbreaking discoveries in cancer science. Many of our early grantees are now internationally renowned cancer scientists.
