Applications for Cancer Research Fellowship
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.
Awards will be made to institutions in support of a fellow under the direct supervision of a sponsor or scientist (tenured, tenure-track, or equivalent) who can provide 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 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 will also provide a dependent child allowance of $1,000 per child per year. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation will retire up to $100,000 of any qualifying medical school debt still owed by the awardee. Payment will be made annually over the course of the award.
Due to COVID-related laboratory closures earlier this year, Damon Runyon is extending its application eligibility requirements for the March 15, 2022, application deadline by six months. Applicants must have received their degrees no more than 24 months prior to the application deadline date. Applicants must not have been in their sponsors' labs for more than one year prior to the application deadline date.
Applicants must have completed one or more of the following degrees or its equivalent: MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, DO. Applicants who have not yet received their PhD diploma but have successfully completed all PhD requirements, including PhD defense, may submit a letter from the graduate school explicitly stating such, with the date of the successful PhD defense and date of degree conferral.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation website.
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.