Funding Opportunities

For questions regarding these opportunities, please contact Sarah Laye at: slaye@som.umaryland.edu.

Date Posted	Organization	Title	Website	Type	LOI or Pre-Application Due Date	Application Due Date	Expiration Date	Comments / Documents
11/01/26	UMGCCC	FY27 UMGCCC Pilot Award Program	APPLY HERE	Internal		12/30/26
11/01/26	American Cancer Society	UMGCCC 2027 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants	More Info/Apply	Internal		10/30/26		Deadline is October 30, 2026 at 11:59PM
10/30/26	Melanoma Research Foundation	Melanoma Research Foundation Career Development Award RFP	RFP	Foundation	11/13/2026			LOI required and due 11/13/26
10/30/26	Biswas Family Foundation	Biswas Family Foundation Fast Grants Program (AI and Health)	website	Foundation		12/15/26		Cycle 2 will be open November 15- December 15.
10/30/26	College of American Pathologists Foundation	College of American Pathologists Foundation Career Development Award in HER2	website	Foundation		12/01/26
10/30/26	Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer	Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer 2027 Young Investigator Grant	Application Guideli…	Foundation		12/10/26
10/30/26	American Association for Cancer Research	AACR Faculty Scholar in the Field of Cancer Research Awards	website	NIH				Please note that this award, although funded by the NIH/NCI, is administered by the AACR. All communications must go through AACR and not the NIH/NCI.
10/30/26	The Matthew Larson Foundation for Pediatric Brain Tumors (IronMatt)	IronMatt Research Grants -Pediatric Brain Tumor Research	website	Foundation	11/15/2026			applicants must submit a Letter of Intent by November 15, 2026
10/30/26	Oncology Nursing Foundation	Oncology Nursing Foundation Master’s Scholarships	website	Foundation		02/01/27
10/30/26	Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network	Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Patient-Centered Clinical Research Award	website	Foundation		12/02/26		Now open for application submissions, due December 2, 2026, by 5:00pm ET.
10/30/26	NIH	NLM Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics, Data Science, and AI (T15 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NIH		02/11/27
10/30/26	Lustgarten Foundation	Lustgarten Foundation Innovation & Collaboration Program Request for Applications	website	Foundation		01/08/27
10/30/26	American Society of Hematology	American Society of Hematology Research Training Award for Fellows	website	Fellowship		01/01/27
10/30/26	The Pablove Foundation	The Pablove Foundation Childhood Cancer Research Seed Grants	website	Foundation
10/30/26	NIH	Genomic Data Generation Center for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NIH		01/08/27
10/30/26	NIH	Gabriella Miller Kids First Training and Outreach Core (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NIH		01/08/27
10/30/26	Children’s Tumor Foundation	Children’s Tumor Foundation RFAs: Young Investigator Award (YIA), Drug Discovery Initiative (DDI), Clinical Research Award (CRA)	website	Foundation				LIO and application due dates vary - check website.
10/22/26	St. Baldricks Research Foundation	Scholar Award (Career Development Award) and Survivorship and Support Care Research Grant	website	Foundation	11/10/2026			If interested, send an abstract and biosketch to Danielle Stegman and Sarah Laye no later than 11/10/26.
10/19/26	NIH	NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program (LRP)	website	NIH		11/19/26		Interested PIO members should contact the UMGCCC Grants Office for guidance on the application process.
10/19/26	NIH	Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	07/06/29
10/19/26	NIH	Limited Competition: Stimulating Access to Research in Residency Transition Scholar (StARRTS) (K38 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NIH		11/09/26	10/14/28
10/19/26	NCI	Carcinogen Hazard Assessment Monographs Program (CHAMP) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NCI		02/09/27
10/19/26	NCI	Interventions to Address Disparities in Liver Diseases and Liver Cancer (R01 - Clinical Trials Optional)	website	NCI		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NIH	Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NCI	Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NCI		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NCI	Integration of Imaging and Fluid-Based Tumor Monitoring in Cancer Therapy (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NCI		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NCI	Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NCI		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NCI	Basic Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NCI		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NIH	Advancing Healthcare for Older Adults from Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NCI	Research Opportunities in Cancer Epidemiology Cohort Studies (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NCI			07/05/29
10/19/26	NIH	Clinical Characterization of Cancer Therapy-induced Adverse Sequelae and Mechanism-based Interventional Strategies (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	01/08/28
10/19/26	NIH	NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00 – Independent Clinical Trial Required)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	05/08/27
10/19/26	NIH	Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (Parent K08 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	05/08/27
10/19/26	NIH	Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 – Independent Clinical Trial Required)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	05/08/27
10/19/26	Pfizer	Pfizer Research Grant Request for Proposals - Clinical Research Studies of Atirmociclib in HR+/HER2- and/or HER2+ Breast Cancer	RFP	Industry		01/12/27		RFP document
10/19/26	American Urological Association	American Urological Association Residency Research Awards – prostate cancer	website	Foundation	11/02/2026	01/04/27		LOI required and due 11:59 p.m. ET, November 2, 2026
10/19/26	Academy of General Dentistry Foundation	Academy of General Dentistry Grant – promoting oral cancer awareness	website	Foundation		11/30/26
10/12/26	NIH	Pilot Projects to Enhance the Human Virome Program (R03 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)	NOFO	NIH		11/10/26	11/11/26
10/07/26	American Cancer Society	ASTRO-ACS Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG)	website	Foundation		12/01/26
10/07/26	NIH	Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	03/06/27
10/07/26	NIH	NIH Collaborative International Research Project (Parent PF5 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	05/08/29
10/07/26	Foundation for Women’s Cancer	Foundation for Women’s Cancer Call for Applications	Call for applicatio…	Foundation	10/07/2026	12/09/26		CFA
10/07/26	AASLD Foundation	Pilot Research Award in Hepatocellular Carcinoma	website	Foundation		12/07/26
10/07/26	Pfizer	Pfizer Guideline Concordant Care and New Data for Patients with Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) through locally advanced or metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma (la/mUC)	RFP	Industry		11/10/26		RFP
10/07/26	American Association for Cancer Research	AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg	website	Foundation		11/20/26
10/07/26	American Association for Cancer Research	AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in Honor of John Robert Lewis	website	Foundation		11/20/26
10/07/26	NIH	Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium: Research Units (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)	website	NIH		Standard due dates apply	11/06/29
10/07/26	NIH	Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium: Management and Data Coordination Unit (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	website	NIH		05/25/27
10/05/26	Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)	Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) Nina Nicolai Pancreatic Cancer Innovation in Collaboration Award		Foundation		12/10/26		Request for Applications
09/22/26	NIH	NIH Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	RFP	NIH		11/10/26