Breast Cancer

Request for Applications: Career Enhancement Awards in Breast Cancer

Range of Awards: One or two awards up to $75,000 in direct costs will be awarded.

Application Deadline: On or before Monday, April 27, 2026 at 5PM

Award Date: August 1, 2026 – July 31, 2027

Eligibility: 

• Early career stage faculty members (Instructor or Assistant Professor) within 5 years of initial faculty appointment who has not previously competed successfully as a Principal Investigator for a substantial government or foundation independent research award such as an R01 or R01-equivalent.
• Investigators from HCC and other selected institutions (Boston Medical Center, University of Massachusetts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are eligible to apply.
• Advanced post-doctoral or clinical fellows who provide a letter from an eligible institution stating that the candidate will be joining its faculty within the year are eligible to apply.
• Investigators supported by NCI (e.g., K award) or other career development awards ARE NOT eligible to apply.
• Clinical, population science, lab-based researchers and computational biologists, data scientists/cancer bioinformatics scientists are all eligible to apply.

Purpose: To develop early career investigators committed to breast cancer research.

Application Materials: Review the full RFA below and e-mail the application materials in a single PDF file by clicking Apply.

Request for Applications: Developmental Project Awards in Breast Cancer

Range of Awards: One or two awards up to $75,000 in direct costs will be awarded.

Application Deadline: On or before Monday, April 27, 2026 at 5PM

Award Date: August 1, 2026 – July 31, 2027

Eligibility: 

• HCC faculty members (Instructor, Assistant, Associate or full Professor) at HCC and other selected institutions (Boston Medical Center, University of Massachusetts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology).  
• Investigators supported by NCI career development awards (K series) are also eligible to apply.
• Clinical, population science, lab-based researchers, computational biologists, data scientists/cancer bioinformatics scientists are all eligible to apply.
• High-risk/high-yield projects with potential to generate preliminary data for new larger external grant applications are especially encouraged.

Purpose: To advance high quality, novel, early-phase research, to foster new ideas in breast cancer research and to move research projects from a pilot stage to a level where external funding for more mature research is possible.

Application Materials: review the full RFA below and e-mail the application materials in a single PDF file by clicking Apply.