Early Detection Award
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Overview
Program Overview
The Early Detection Award supports research focused on early cancer detection and diagnostic approaches. The foundation partners with other organizations including the AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) and the Lustgarten Foundation to fund this program.
Focus Areas
Supports research in:
- Early cancer detection methodologies
- Diagnostic platforms
- Biomarker discovery
- Cancer-specific detection strategies
2026 Mark Foundation-AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Early Detection Award:
- "Programmable Recognition of KRAS Neoantigens for Early Cancer Diagnostics Across Patients"
- Investigators: Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, PhD (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania); Mark A. Sellmyer, MD, PhD (University of Pennsylvania); Possu Huang, PhD (Stanford University)
- Focus: Using engineered binding proteins (TRACeRs) to detect KRAS-driven cancers in genetically diverse patient populations with applications in pancreatic, colorectal, and lung cancer detection
Contact Information
- Phone: 646-866-5950
- Email: info@themarkfoundation.org
- Address: 1350 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019
What The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (US) Ltd actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 29
- Total given
- $19.49M
- Median grant
- $500K
- Range
- $11K–$2.75M
- By dollars: New York 32%, California 27%, Massachusetts 9%. Top recipient cities: New York, NY; Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 21% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY
Research
$2.75M
Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA
Research
$2.3M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY
Research
$1.57M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD
Research
$1.38M
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies · La Jolla, CA
Research
$1M
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Cancer
- Science research
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