Applications for Cancer Research
Offered by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Damon Runyon Fellowship Award supports theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention.
Through the program, awards will be made to institutions for the support of a fellow under direct supervision of a sponsor-scientist (tenured, tenure-track, or equivalent) capable of providing mentoring to the fellow. In addition to aiding in the planning, execution, and supervision of the proposed research, the sponsor’s role is to foster the development of the fellow’s overall knowledge, technical and analytical skills, and capacity for scientific inquiry. Fellowships are granted for a four-year term, with second-, third-, and fourth-year funding contingent on satisfactory progress reports. In addition, fellows in their first and third years of funding will attend Damon Runyon Fellows' Retreats, which are designed to foster collaboration and interaction between scientists working in different fields relevant to cancer.
The first-year stipend is $52,000, with an additional $2,000 expense allowance. (The foundation also provides a dependent child allowance of $1,000 per child per year.)
To be eligible, applicants must have completed one or more of the following degrees or its equivalent: MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, DO. If an applicant has not yet received his/her PhD diploma but has successfully completed all PhD requirements, including PhD defense, he/she may submit a letter from the graduate school explicitly stating such, with the date of the successful PhD defense and date of degree conferral.
Due to COVID-19 related laboratory closures earlier this year, Damon Runyon is extending its application eligibility requirements for the March 15 application deadline by three months. Applicants must have received their degrees no more than twenty-one months prior to the application deadline date. Applicants must not have been in their sponsors' labs for more than fifteen months prior to the application deadline date.
See the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for complete program guidelines and application instructions.
Submissions to this sponsor/donor are managed by the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Please contact your unit-assigned ASUF Director of Development or Research Advancement Specialist at your earliest convenience to ensure ASU's strategic coordination and management of funding applications.