Grant Details

The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation awards four types of grants:

• Emerging Investigator Fellowship Grants: These grants are designed to support Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Clinical Investigator training for emerging pediatric cancer researchers to pursue exciting research ideas. Applicants must have completed two years of their fellowship, or not more than two years as a junior faculty instructor or assistant professor at the start of the award period. These grants encourage and cultivate the best and brightest researchers of the future.
• Translational Research Grants: This type of grant primarily funds new research protocols and therapies that hold promise for improved outcomes and accelerates cures from the laboratory bench to the bedside of children and teens with high-risk cancers. This Grant is given to programs that involve open, multi-institutional cancer clinical trials or consortia, and implement new approaches to therapy.
• Basic Science Grants: This type of grant primarily funds basic science, translational and/or clinical state of the art pediatric cancer research initiatives. These type of grants fund work that is the basis for childhood cancer research, helping to move science in the direction of improved treatments and eventually finding a cure.
• Designated Grant Programs: These grants fund projects in communities or regions local to the specific donor or fundraising activity. Outside contributing organizations, fundraisers and donors work with the Foundation to identify a specific project, focus on a specific disease type, facility or awareness program.