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 Sort descending	Application Due Date	Expiration Date	Comments / Documents
10/07/22	NCI	Precision Approaches in Radiation Synthetic Combinations (PAIRS R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply	09/08/25	LOI due 30 days before application due date
01/17/24	NCI	Notice of Special Interest: National Cancer Institute Supports Applications for the Mentored Research Scientist Development Awards (K01) Within the Mission of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences	Link	NIH NOSI		05/08/29	05/08/29
05/27/22	AbbVie	Investigator-Initiated Studies	Link	Industry				IIS applications are accepted on a rolling submission basis.
01/10/20	Colorectal Cancer Alliance	Health Disparities Research Grant	Link	Foundation				Currently accepting grant applications. Grant selections will be completed in Spring 2020 and awards will be announced in Summer 2020.
11/14/25	American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery	2026 CORE Funding Opportunity (various)	Link	Foundation
01/20/26	NIH	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions with NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply
05/07/26	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	DoW Pancreatic Cancer Research Program, Focused Pilot Award	website	DOW		10/07/26
07/22/22	NIH	HEAL Initiative: Career Development Awards in Implementation Science for Substance Use Prevention and Treatment (K23 - Clinical Trial Required)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply	11/13/25	LOI Not Applicable
05/07/24	Maryland Department of Health	MHHD Grant Programs	Link	MDH				see each grant for specific deadline
04/08/22	Hope Foundation for Cancer Research	Hope Foundation funding opps (various)	Link	Foundation		https://www.thehopefoundation.org/funding-opportunities/
10/30/19	Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BIPI)	Independent Medical Education Grants	Link	Foundation		https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.us/sites/us/files/files/medical-grants-brochur…
11/14/25	NIH	Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply
03/04/26	Incyte	The Incyte Ingenuity Awards in GVHD	Link	Foundation		06/12/26
05/07/26	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	DoW, Ovarian Cancer, Investigator-Initiated Research Award	website	DOW		10/01/26
02/14/23	NIH	Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Addressing the Etiology of Health Disparities and Health Advantages Among Immigrant Populations	Link	NIH NOSI		06/06/26	06/06/26
03/31/24	OREF	OREF Research Grants (various)	Link	Foundation
03/10/22	Genentech	Independent Medical Education (IME)	Link	Foundation				Grant requests must be submitted at least 60 days prior to the project/program/event start date.
09/19/19	American Association for Cancer Research	AACR Basic Cancer Research Fellowships	Link	Foundation
11/14/25	NIH	NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply
04/28/26	Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) and Pfizer Inc.	Implementing Germline and Somatic Testing for Precision Medicine in Community-Based Prostate Cancer Care Visiting Professorship Program	link	Industry		06/26/26		Grant Application due June 23, 2026. Please note the deadline is 23:59 Eastern Time (New York, GMT -5). Applications submitted after deadline will not be reviewed. 2026 ONC US PCF Visiting Professorship final.pdf
05/15/26	Pfizer and Astellas	Guideline Concordant Care and Emerging Data for Patients with Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) through locally advanced or metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma (la/mUC)	Link to full RFP	Industry		07/02/26
06/26/23	NCI	Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on HIV-associated Malignancies	Link	NIH NOSI		09/08/26	09/08/26
03/11/24	Society for Immunology of Cancer	SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship	Link	Foundation
01/30/22	International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)	IASLC Research Grants (various)	Link	Foundation
08/02/19	American Lung Association	ALA Awards and Grants (various opps)	Link	Foundation		https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/research/awards-and-grant-funding/
11/14/25	NIH	Interventions to Address Disparities in Liver Diseases and Liver Cancer (R01 - Clinical Trials Optional)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply
05/07/26	National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) in collaboration with Pfizer	National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Pfizer Metastatic Prostate Cancer Quality Improvement Project	RFP	Industry		07/01/26
06/05/23	NCI	Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Assessing Real-World Effectiveness and Implementation of Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication among Rural Communities	Link	NIH NOSI		10/10/26	10/10/26
01/22/24	Melanoma Research Foundation	Melanoma Research Foundation RFP (various)	Link	Foundation		https://melanoma.org/research-science/research-grants/research-grant-rfps/
09/24/21	American Lung Association	ALA Awards and Grants (various)	Link	Foundation		https://www.lung.org/research/awards-and-grants-opportunities
05/06/19	Thiel Foundation	Breakout Labs	Link	Foundation				Proposals are received evaluated and funded on a rolling basis. The number of proposals we fund will depend on the quality and quantity of the submissions we receive and their fit within our funding
11/14/25	NIH	Integration of Imaging and Fluid-Based Tumor Monitoring in Cancer Therapy (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply		LOI due 30 days prior to the application due date
05/07/26	The American Association for Thoracic Surgery	The American Association for Thoracic Surgery – Thoracic Surgical Oncology Clinical Trial Research Training Fellowship	website	Fellowship		07/01/26
12/13/23	NCI	Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): National Cancer Institute Entrepreneurial Education Programs to Facilitate Commercialization of Cancer Relevant Technologies	Link	NIH NOSI		01/08/27	01/08/27
10/19/23	St. Baldrick's Foundation	St. Baldrick's Foundation Grants	Link	Foundation
07/22/21	Pfizer	Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma (and other Pfizer grants)	Link	Industry		https://www.pfizer.com/purpose/independent-grants/competitive-grants		Filter list by selecting Oncology for Focus Area
02/17/19	BD Biosciences	BD Biosciences research grants (immunology cancer)	Link	Foundation		http://www.bdbiosciences.com/us/applications/research/research-grants/m/researc…
11/14/25	NIH	Mechanisms that Impact Cancer Risk with Use of Incretin Mimetics (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply		LOI due 30 days prior to the application due date
05/07/26	American Gastroenterological Association	AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn & Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer	website	Award		09/15/26
12/17/24	NIH	Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply	05/08/27
08/29/23	American Lung Association	American Lung Association (various)	Link	Foundation				due dates vary -- see application for each award
02/13/21	Genentech	Genentech Fellowships	Link	Training				Grant requests must be submitted at least 90 days prior to the project/program start date and preferably 60 days prior to the date on which the organization needs to be notified of a funding decision
04/14/25	Children's Cancer Research Fund (CCRF)	Children's Cancer Research Fund Research Grant (various)	Link	Foundation
11/14/25	NIH	Cancer Research Education Grants Program - Curriculum or Methods Development (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply
05/07/26	American Association for Cancer Research	AACR-Novocure Cancer Research Grant	website	Foundation		06/04/26
05/07/24	NCI	Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply	05/08/27
02/07/23	Prostate Cancer Foundation	Prostate Cancer Foundation Awards (Various)	Link	Foundation				Deadlines vary across grants
11/13/20	American Brain Tumor Association	ABTA Research Collaboration Grant	Link	Foundation				Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the ABTA is not able to accept applications for the Research Collaboration Grants for the 2021 grant cycle.
04/14/25	NIH	SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program Technical Assistance and Late Stage Development (SB1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply	09/06/25
11/14/25	NIH	Advancing Healthcare for Older Adults from Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)	Link	NIH		Standard due dates apply