Funding Amount

$100,000

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Deadline history & next window

Cycle
Annual
Tracked since
April 2026

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Geography

  • Recent Awardee (2023): Chad Pecot, MD, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center - "Mechanistic and therapeutic implications of co-targeting KRAS and MYC in lung cancer" - RNA-based drug targeting tumor cells to simultaneously silence KRAS and MYC mutations

Required status

  • 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status

Other requirements

  • Must have received prior funding from LCI
  • Project must already be underway
  • Additional funding necessary to cover unanticipated costs or resources
  • Background: Since 2008, LCI has funded more than $3 million in lung cancer research.

Overview

Award celebrating LCI's 15th year as a 501(c)(3) by helping lung cancer researchers who have previously been funded by LCI to advance studies that are already underway.

Geographic Scope: North Carolina

Focus Areas:

  • Support for previously-funded LCI researchers
  • Advancement of ongoing lung cancer research studies
  • Coverage of unanticipated time or resources needed to further studies
  • Expansion of original study aims

Eligibility:

  • Must have received prior funding from LCI
  • Project must already be underway
  • Additional funding necessary to cover unanticipated costs or resources

Recent Awardee (2023): Chad Pecot, MD, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center - "Mechanistic and therapeutic implications of co-targeting KRAS and MYC in lung cancer" - RNA-based drug targeting tumor cells to simultaneously silence KRAS and MYC mutations

Background: Since 2008, LCI has funded more than $3 million in lung cancer research.

What Lung Cancer Initiative actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2025

Grants in 2025
8
Total given
$378K
Median grant
$29K
Range
$10K–$137K
  • By dollars: North Carolina 58%, Georgia 26%, Illinois 13%. Top recipient cities: Charlotte, NC; Winston-Salem, NC; Atlanta, GA.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.

Example grants

  • Duke · Charlotte, NC

    Research grants

    $137K

  • UNC · Atlanta, GA

    Research grants

    $100K

  • Lungevity Foundation · Chicago, IL

    Research funding

    $50K

  • Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · Winston Salem, NC

    Research funding

    $38K

  • ECU · Greenville, NC

    Research grant; screening saves grant

    $21K

IRS Form 990, 2025. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Cancer
  • Science research

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