Deadline: 11 December 2023
The Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is accepting applications for the Young Investigator Grant Program to support early career researchers, such as postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows or instructors, pursuing promising childhood cancer research ideas.
These grants aim to cultivate the best and brightest researchers of the future who demonstrate a commitment to a research career in pediatric cancer.
Scope
- Proposals must fall within the scope of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation’s mission, focused on childhood cancers. Proposals with a sole/primary focus on patients >19 years of age will not be considered.
Funding Information
- The requested budget should be in proportion to the scope of the proposed project and should be at or under $180,000 USD in direct costs over 3 years. A maximum of $60,000 in total costs may be requested per year.
Eligibility Criteria
- At the time of application
- Applicant institutions must be based in the United States or Canada. Applicants need not be United States citizens. Funds must be granted to nonprofit institutions or organizations.
- Applicants must have an MD, PhD, or MD/PhD or equivalent and must not have achieved an appointment higher than Instructor. Assistant Professors, including adjuncts at this level, will not be considered. In addition:
- Applicants from accredited clinical fellowship programs are automatically eligible for the duration of their training and during their first three years at the Instructor level.
- Applicants not from accredited clinical fellowship programs must meet the following criteria:
- Applicants holding an MD or MD/PhD must be within seven years from the granting of the last doctoral degree at the time of application.
- Applicants holding a PhD must be within six years from the granting of the last doctoral degree at the time of application.
- A minimum of 75% of the applicant’s time during the Young Investigator period must be allocated as non-clinical protected time for all research activities. This percentage of time includes both Young Investigator activities and the applicant’s other research responsibilities.
- At the time of application or successful award
- Applicant must not hold an NIH independent (R or P Award) or individual training (F or K Award) grant. Institutional training grants (KL2, K12, T32) are permitted. Funding from other foundations is permitted provided there is no scientific or budgetary overlap.
For more information, visit ALSF.
