Emerging Scientist Awards
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Program Focus: Support for highly qualified postdoctoral students to explore their own research ideas early in their careers
Purpose:
Children's Cancer Research Fund provides Emerging Scientist Awards to support young investigators who are postdoctoral students around the country. The program helps address the challenge that public funding for biomedical research has remained stagnant since the early 2000s, making it especially difficult for young researchers without extensive published research to compete for funding.
Award Details:
- Number of Awards: Four (4) awards per cycle
- Eligibility: Highly qualified postdoctoral students
- Geographic Scope: National (United States)
- Research Focus: Childhood cancer research
Program Goals:
The awards allow young researchers to:
- Explore their own research ideas independently
- Publish research to apply for larger grants
- Gain expertise in their areas of interest
- Establish themselves as independent researchers
Geographic Service Area: United States
- Website: childrenscancer.org
- Federal Tax ID: 41-1893645
Past recipients of this program
Recent awards under this program (from Children's Cancer Research Fund's IRS filings)
University of Minnesota Foundation
Minneapolis, MN · 2023
$200K
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN · 2023
$100K
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA · 2023
$100K
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH · 2022
$100K
Boston, MA · 2022
$100K
15 grants in Children's Cancer Research Fund's 2020–2023 filings reference “Emerging Scientist Awards” in their stated purpose. Amounts and places as reported by the funder.
What Children's Cancer Research Fund actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 7
- Total given
- $3.02M
- Median grant
- $250K
- Range
- $25K–$1.57M
- By dollars: Minnesota 78%, Pennsylvania 8%, Texas 8%. Top recipient cities: Minneapolis, MN; York, ME; Philadelphia, PA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN
Dept of pediatrics fellowships and seed grants
$1.57M
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute · Philadelphia, PA
Dr. matthew hocking for pediatric cancer research
$250K
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX
Dr. michael andreeff for pediatric cancer reserach
$250K
Lad in a Battle LLC · York, ME
Big dreams tour - james orrigo
$150K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
- Cancer
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