Scholar Awards and Research Grants

For each funding category below, see the sponsor’s funding priorities and topics of interest outlined in the “Guidelines” pdfs linked from their website.

Scholar (Career Development) Awards, $110,000 per year, three year minimum

The three (3) year Scholar (Career Development) Award, with an option for two (2) additional years based on progress, is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers.

International Scholars, $110,000 per year, three year minimum

This three (3) year award, with an option for two (2) additional years based on progress, is to train researchers from low-and middle-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) to prepare them to fill specific stated needs in an area of childhood cancer research upon returning to their country of origin. 

Research Grants, $100,000 per year for two years

These grants are for specific research projects which are hypothesis driven and may be either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological in nature.

Application Instructions

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Required letters of intent are due to the sponsor 12/9/2024, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 11/26/2024 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.