Discovery Grants
Funding Amount
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Deadline
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Grant Type
Foundation
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- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Investigators associated with respected medical institutions
Other requirements
- Research must focus on innovative developmental projects
- Geographic Scope: Primarily United States (institutions include Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and others)
Overview
The Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation awards Discovery Grants to innovative developmental research projects as seed money for new directions in research into the cause and treatment of leukemia and allied cancers.
Focus Areas:
- Leukemia research
- Lymphoma research
- Hodgkin disease research
- Myeloma research
- Blood diseases research
Eligibility:
- Investigators associated with respected medical institutions
- Research must focus on innovative developmental projects
Geographic Scope: Primarily United States (institutions include Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and others)
Track Record:
- Over 146 Discovery Grants awarded to date
- Over $470,000,000 in subsequent grants from other sources awarded to funded projects and principal investigators
- Grants serve as seed funding enabling continuation of innovative research
Contact Information:
- Phone: 516-767-1418
- Email: lslf@lslf.com
- Website: lslf.org
What Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 1
- Total given
- $6,250
- Median grant
- $6,250
- By dollars: Massachusetts 100%. Top recipient cities: Boston, MA.
Example grants
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA
Research
$6,250
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
- Cancer
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