Career Development Program: Scholar Grant

The Career Development Program: Scholar is a prestigious award from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society aimed at emerging leaders in blood cancer research. This program supports qualified investigators holding tenure-track positions who demonstrate a commitment to independent research in hematologic malignancies. With a maximum annual funding of $120,000 over five years, this award fosters innovation and advancement in the field, ensuring that promising researchers can develop impactful research programs.

The Scholar Award supports rising stars in the blood cancer research field. You must be a highly qualified investigator who has shown a capacity for independent, sustained, and original investigation in the field of hematologic malignancies and/or relevant pre-malignant conditions. You should hold an independent, tenure-track faculty-level position, below the level of full professor, and must have substantial research support awarded from a national agency. Scholar applicants are primarily basic and translational researchers; those who are primarily clinical researchers should consider the Scholar in Clinical Research subcategory. The Scholar application and review process has fundamentally changed from project-based to research program-based and therefore, the application is unlike a standard research grant.
This award is for 5 years and the maximum award per year is $120,000.