NCI Career Development Grants
Introduction
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) offers many opportunities for research training and education that are particularly suited to fostering careers in cancer epidemiology and genetics.
NCI's Cancer Training Branch
manages the majority of NCI's
awards to institutions and individuals pursuing training and career
development opportunities in cancer research at organizations throughout
the United States. For questions, contact the
appropriate Program
Director
for the grant of interest.
Institutional Awards
- R25E
Cancer Education Grant Program – Any not-for-profit or for-profit
organization engaged in health-related education research, or training
and located in the United States may apply for funding to develop (i)
innovative cancer education programs; and (ii) cancer research dissemination
projects that can be completed within 5 years.
- R25T
Cancer Education and Career Development Program – Institutional award
for predoctoral or postdoctoral candidates or mentored junior faculty
who are pursuing careers in cancer prevention, control, behavioral, and
population sciences or transdisciplinary sciences.
- T32 Ruth
L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Research
Training Grants – Institutional award for predoctoral or postdoctoral
candidates or mentored junior faculty who are pursuing careers in basic
science.
Individual Awards
- F32 Ruth
L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral
Fellows – Supports individuals with a doctoral degree (e.g., M.D.,
Ph.D., D.P.H.) for a three-year period of supervised research experience
to achieve independence.
- K05 Established
Investigator Award in Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral, and Population
Research – Provides established investigators protected time to devote
to research and to act as mentors for young investigators.
- K07 Cancer
Prevention, Control, Behavioral and Population Sciences Career Development
Award – This mechanism provides support for three to five years of
specialized didactic study and mentored research for individuals with
a health professional or science doctoral degree who are not fully established
investigators and who want to pursue research careers in the cancer prevention,
control, population and/or behavioral sciences.
- K08 Mentored
Clinical Scientist Career Development Award – Supports individual
candidates with a clinical doctoral degree (e.g., M.D.) or equivalent,
to become well-trained laboratory-based cancer researchers.
- K12 Paul
Calabresi Award for Clinical Oncology – This is a multi- and
transdisciplinary institutional training award supporting the research
career development of clinicians only or clinicians and Ph.D. basic scientists
to: 1) perform clinical oncology therapeutic research that develops and
tests scientific hypotheses based on fundamental and clinical research
findings; 2) design and test hypothesis-based, clinical therapeutic protocols
and adjunct biological analyses and for clinician candidates to administer
all phases (i.e., pilot/Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III) of cancer therapeutic
clinical trials; and (3) conduct cancer therapeutic research in team
research settings in which basic and clinical scientists collaborate
and interact to expedite the translation of basic research discoveries
into patient-oriented therapeutic cancer research.
- K22 Transition
Career Development Award – Supports "protected time" for
newly independent investigators to develop and receive support for their
initial cancer-research programs.
- K23 Mentored
Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award – Supports the
career development of clinically trained professionals who have made
a commitment to focus on patient-oriented research.
- K24 Midcareer
Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research – Provides
clinicians protected time for patient-oriented research and to act as
mentors for beginning clinical investigators.
- K25 Mentored
Quantitative Scientist Career Development Program – Supports the
career development of investigators, with quantitative scientific and
engineering backgrounds outside of biology or medicine, who have made
a commitment to focus their research endeavors on behavioral and biomedical
research (basic or clinical).
- K99/R00
Howard Temin Pathway to Independence Award in Cancer Research – Supports
the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to
focus their research on cancer prevention, control, behavioral and the
population sciences.
Additional NCI Training Opportunities
- Center
to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities Diversity Training Programs – Offers
internship, fellowship, career development, and training opportunities focused
on the training of students, researchers and faculty from racially and ethnically
diverse populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research.
- Cancer Prevention Fellowship
Program
- Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention
- Division of Cancer
Epidemiology and Genetics Fellowships
- Other NCI Fellowships and Internships
