Funding Opportunities
Intramural Funding
The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center facilitates multiple intramural funding programs, including for seed grant, tumor specific projects, fellowships, and more. To administer these funding programs, we've established an online funding portal where you can learn about the different opportunities available to you, as well as download and submit applications
Called UCLA Bruin Learn, click the button below to access the portal. A one-time registration is required and you will need a UCLA Logon ID to use Bruin Learn. (If you do not already have a UCLA Logon ID, please visit this page to create one.)
Extramural Funding
Below is a list of limited extramural funding opportunities that are provided as a courtesy to Cancer Center members. For an extramural funding opportunity to be included on this list, it must be a Limited Submission Opportunity (LSO) and applications are supported administratively by the Cancer Center’s Grants Facilitation Team. Submission instructions are noted below. If you have any questions about a specific LSO listed below, please contact Danielle Montes via email.
Listings are generally updated on a monthly basis. Entries are ordered by posting date, with most recent postings first. Opportunities are removed from this list once their final application due date has passed.
Posted September 27, 2023
National Cancer Institutes (NCI) Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award P30 Administrative Supplement for Fiscal Year 2024
Formerly the Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award, the Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award (ECIA) recognizes and supports outstanding early career clinical investigators who demonstrate a commitment to becoming an academic clinical researcher and supporting their cancer center’s NCI-funded clinical trials enterprise. The ECIA is designed to promote the retention of early career investigators who wish to initiate a career path that focuses on interventional cancer clinical trials and academic clinical research. The award provides salary support to individuals who do not have independent research grant funding as a Principal Investigator.
The total supplement budget cannot exceed $60,000 (total costs) per year for a total of two years, meaning that with the 57.5 percent F&A rate that goes into effect in July 2024, the annual direct cost is $38,095. The only allowable costs are salary and fringe benefits, and up to $2,500/year for travel and registration fees to attend courses, seminars, meetings, conferences, etc… that directly relates to the intent of the award.
Deadline
One-page research summary and biosketch due to Cancer Center by Monday, October 9, 2023. If your project is selected by the Cancer Center, please be prepared to submit a full application by December 18, 2023 at 5pm PST.
How to apply
If you are interested in being considered for this CCSG supplement please respond with a one-page research summary along with your Biosketch to Sarah Anwar at [email protected] and Genevieve Ortega-Alves at [email protected]. (Please note that the full application will be supported administratively by the Cancer Center’s Grants Facilitation Team.)
National Cancer Institutes (NCI) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award
The purpose of the NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) is to encourage and retain outstanding graduate students recognized by their institutions for their high potential and strong interest in pursuing careers as independent cancer researchers. The award will facilitate the transition of talented graduate students into successful cancer research postdoctoral appointments and provide opportunities for career development activities relevant to their long-term career goals of becoming independent cancer researchers. The F99/K00 award is intended for individuals who require one to two years to complete their PhD dissertation research training (F99 phase) before transitioning to mentored postdoctoral research training (K00 phase). Consequently, applicants are expected to propose an individualized research training plan for the next one to two years of dissertation research training and a plan for three to four years of mentored postdoctoral research and career development activities that will prepare them for independent cancer-focused research careers.
The F99/K00 award is meant to provide up to six years of support in two phases. The initial (F99) phase will provide support for one to two years of dissertation research (final experiments, dissertation preparation, and selection of a postdoctoral mentor). The second (K00) phase will provide up to 4 years of mentored postdoctoral research and career development support, contingent upon successful completion of the doctoral degree requirements and securing a cancer-focused postdoctoral position at a new institution. The two award phases are intended to be continuous in time but a gap of up to three months between the two phases will be allowed. However, the F99 phase of the award may not continue beyond the completion of all doctoral degree requirements (i.e., the date of acceptance and approval of the PhD thesis by the institution and not when the degree is conferred). A K00 award will only be made to a PD/PI who has successfully completed the F99-supported training, provided NCI with a strong research and career development plan, and started a cancer-focused postdoctoral appointment.
Deadline
One-page research summary and biosketch due to Cancer Center by Monday, September 22, 2023. If your project is selected by the Cancer Center, please be prepared to submit a full application by November 17, 2023 at 5pm PST.
How to apply
If you are interested in being considered for this CCSG supplement please respond with a one-page research summary along with your Biosketch to Sarah Anwar at [email protected] and Genevieve Ortega-Alves at [email protected].
Posted September 1, 2023
National Cancer Institutes (NCI) Administrative Supplements to Participate in Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program
This Notice of Special Interest from the NCI announces an opportunity for administrative supplement funding to support and train early-stage surgeon scientists conducting cancer-related research and with the goal to accelerate them into an independent surgeon scientist career. The NCI will support exceptional surgeon scientists from across the United States who have not received prior substantial NIH funding to be trained together by participating in the NCI Early-stage Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP). This 5-year pilot program will support early-career surgeon scientist program participants, each of whom will receive three years of funding in three cohorts, staggered a year apart.
Please see these link for more information about this opportunity: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-CA-21-100.html and https://www.cancer.gov/grants-training/training/funding/nci-essp.
Deadline
One-page research summary and biosketch due to Cancer Center by Monday, September 22, 2023. If your project is selected by the Cancer Center, please be prepared to submit a full application by December 8, 2023 at 5pm PST.
How to apply
If you are interested in being considered for this CCSG supplement please respond with a one-page research summary along with your Biosketch to Sarah Anwar at [email protected] and Genevieve Ortega-Alves at [email protected].