Exceptional Project Grants

The Breast Cancer Alliance offers Exceptional Project Grants aimed at enhancing survival rates and quality of life for individuals affected by breast cancer. This grant, amounting to $100,000 over one year, supports innovative research and projects in the contiguous United States. Eligible applicants include clinical doctors and research scientists at any career stage. The funding covers salary and project costs, with indirect costs capped at 8% of direct costs, ensuring comprehensive support for impactful research.

To promote these goals, we invest in innovative research, breast surgery fellowships, education, dignified regional support and screening for the underserved.
Breast Cancer Alliance raises money to provide four types of annual grants:

• Exceptional Project ResearchYoung Investigator ResearchBreast Surgery FellowshipsScreening and Diagnostics Grants
• Exceptional Project Grants

Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists at any stage of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for an Exceptional Project Grant. This award recognizes creative, unique and innovative research and is open to applicants at institutions in the contiguous United States. This is a one year grant for a total of $100,000.
The term of the Exceptional Project Grant is one year. The grant provides salary support and project costs for a total of $100,000 (distributed over the one-year period.) Indirect costs, which are included in the $100,000 award, must be limited to 8% of total direct costs.

Eligibility

Clinical doctors and research scientists at institutions throughout the contiguous United States are welcome to apply.You may only submit an LOI for each proposal for either an Exceptional Project Grant or a Young Investigator Grant. It is your choice as to which application best suits your experience.There is no limitation on the subject matter of the project as long as it is reasonably related to the treatment, prevention or cure of breast cancer.  However, the proposed project should be an exceptional project that can stand alone. Existing funding for a related aspect of the proposed project is not in itself disqualifying, but we would not, for example, consider the payment for sequencing studies in an otherwise funded project to be eligible for an exceptional project grant.  You do not have to be a US citizen to apply, but you must be affiliated with a US institution at which the grant project will be carried out.