Career Development Program: Scholar Grant

Career Development Program: Scholar Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Amount: Up to US $120,000
Last Updated: September 29, 2025

Summary

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.

Overview

Note: Eligibility Phase deadline October 17, 2025; 3:00 PM (ET) Career Development Program: Scholar 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.

Eligibility

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