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LOI Deadline: Feb. 13, 2026

Budget: $300,000 over 2 years plus 10% indirect costs

Award: Translation to CURE award (T2C) – open to investigators at any stage of their career (Assistant to Full Professor).

Please contact Alex Hood, associate director foundation relations, at alex.hood@bcm.edu with any questions.

LOI Deadline: Feb. 13, 2026

Budget: $200,000 over 2 years plus 10% indirect costs

Award: Early Investigator award (EI) – open to beginning scientists and physician scientists at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level. Physician scientists (MD or MD/PhD) who are within 5 years of completion of their clinical (or terminal) fellowship training and are beginning to establish a research career may apply as Instructors or Assistant Professors. PhD scientists within 5 years of an initial appointment as a tenure track Assistant Professor are also invited to apply for this award.

Please contact Alex Hood, associate director foundation relations, at alex.hood@bcm.edu with any questions.

Deadline: Feb. 23, 2026, by 3 p.m. ET

Amount: $225,000 over 3 years ($75k/year) - indirect costs not allowed

PCF Young Investigator Awards support early-career researchers with flexible funding to advance innovative, high-impact work in lethal or potentially lethal prostate cancer. Funds may be used for protected time or direct research costs, but not for indirect expenses. Awardees must have at least one mentor, submit timely progress reports, and attend the Annual PCF Scientific Retreat and Young Investigator Forum, with most travel costs covered by PCF.

The program is open globally to early-career investigators across diverse disciplines and research approaches, including basic, translational, computational, and clinical research, provided they are in environments capable of supporting transformational prostate cancer research. Priority is given to innovative bench-to-bedside projects with near-term patient impact; incremental studies or those focused on low-risk localized disease are generally non-competitive.

Please contact Mary Nunciato, senior director foundation relations, at mary.hall@bcm.edu with any questions. 

Deadline: Feb. 24, 2026, 1 p.m. ET

Amount: $65,000

To support a postdoctoral or clinical research fellow to conduct cancer disparities research and establish a successful career path in this field. The proposed research should specifically address disparities in oncology care in the area of bladder cancer and address barriers leading to inequality of cancer care that exist in institutions and within society at large.

The fellowship provides a one-year grant to support the salary and benefits of the fellow while working on a mentored cancer disparities research project. Applicants must have completed their most recent doctoral degree within the past five years as of start of grant term (7/1/26).

Deadline: March 12, 2026, 1 p.m. ET

Amount: $130,000 over 2 years

To support postdoctoral or clinical research fellows to conduct cancer disparities research and to establish a successful career path in this field. The proposed research may be in basic, translational, clinical, or population sciences research and must have direct applicability and relevance to cancer disparities.

The fellowship provides a two-year grant to support the salary and benefits of the fellow while working on mentored cancer disparities research. Applicants must have completed their most recent doctoral degree within the past five years as of start of grant term (7/1/26).

Please contact Alex Hood, associate director foundation relations, at alex.hood@bcm.edu with any questions. 

Deadline: March 13, 2026

Amount: Up to $200,000 over two years plus 12% indirects

Provides grants to support and test novel bioinformatics applications in cancer aimed at clinical impact. Applications must be submitted by a team that includes at least one cancer researcher and one bioinformatics researcher.

Please contact Alex Hood, associate director foundation relations, at alex.hood@bcm.edu with any questions. 

Deadline: March 18, 2026

Amount: $750,000 over five years ($150k/year)

The Sontag Foundation is one of the largest private funders of brain cancer research in North America. The Foundation is currently soliciting applications for its Distinguished Scientist Award. The goal of this funding initiative is to change the paradigm of brain cancer research by building a community of outstanding scientists whose pioneering approaches have the potential to make significant advances in the field of brain cancer/brain tumors. The Foundation believes that multi-disciplinary collaborations are critical to advancing research. Researchers from various scientific backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please contact Mary Nunciato, senior director foundation relations, at mary.hall@bcm.edu with any questions. 

LOI Deadline: April 1, 2026 at 5 p.m. PST

Amount: Up to $75,000 for one year

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.

Please contact Alex Hood, associate director foundation relations, at alex.hood@bcm.edu with any questions.

LOI Deadline: April 30, 2026

Amount: £250K (approximately $337k)

This scheme aims to de-risk early-stage projects to enable further drug discovery research, funding, or partnering, with a focus on developing novel therapeutics for children and young people with cancer. It invites global applications for early drug discovery proposals across all childhood cancer indications and therapeutic modalities, including projects focused on identifying and validating novel targets and pathways, developing innovative therapeutic approaches to validated targets, creating platforms, assays, and screening tools for target identification, and conducting feasibility and de-risking studies to advance promising drug discovery efforts.

Please contact Mary Nunciato, senior director foundation relations, at mary.hall@bcm.edu with any questions.

Application Deadline: Ongoing until funds are used.

Budget: $20,000-$40,000, for one year.

Award: The Colon Cancer Coalition seeks to provide funds, to liked-minded partners advancing colon cancer research. Funds must be used on programs that will benefit individuals in and around the event city where the money is raised. Priority will be given to programs working to increase screening for adults over 50 to reach the national goal of 80%, patient screening navigation, or addressing young adult onset colorectal cancer.

Contact: Please contact Lyndsie Whitehead, Assistant Director of Foundation Relations at lyndsie.whitehead@bcm.edu for additional information.

Application Deadline: Funding is available on a rolling basis and new grants are awarded frequently.

Budget: $50,000 ~ $828,027, from 6 months to 36 months (average $224,000 for 2 years). NTAP supports indirect costs at a maximum of 10% of direct costs.  

Award: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program (NTAP) supports research projects designed to accelerate development of effective treatments for NF1 associated peripheral nerve sheath tumors.  NTAP’s is open to any stage of drug development.  However, proposal must focus on the peripheral nerve tumors of NF1 (Cutaneous, Plexiform and Atypical).

Please contact Lyndsie Whitehead, Assistant Director of Foundation Relations for additional information.