Project Cure CRC: Early-Career Investigator Award Grant
Funding Amount
Up to US $200,000
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
From the program guidelines: “With no application deadlines, submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, allowing awardees to receive funding for their original preclinical, translational, or early clinical research projects, fostering the next generation of CRC research leaders.”
Overview
The Project Cure CRC Early-Career Investigator Award, offered by the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, seeks to attract innovative early-career faculty to colorectal cancer research. This award supports groundbreaking research aimed at enhancing our understanding and treatment of colorectal cancer. With no application deadlines, submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, allowing awardees to receive funding for their original preclinical, translational, or early clinical research projects, fostering the next generation of CRC research leaders.
NOTE: There are no application deadlines. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis starting on January 25th. A response regarding your proposal submission will be provided within two months of submission.
Early-Career Investigator Awards aim to attract early career faculty with original ideas into the field of colorectal cancer research, thereby recruiting and supporting the next generation of CRC research leaders. Awardees will be provided funding to accomplish innovative and original, preclinical, translational, and/or early clinical research projects.
What Colorectal Cancer Alliance actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 22
- Total given
- $3.72M
- Median grant
- $90K
- Range
- $10K–$521K
- By dollars: California 26%, Texas 16%, Pennsylvania 14%. Top recipient cities: Houston, TX; Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX
Research grants
$521K
The Trustees of University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
Community grants/ research grants
$513K
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD
Research grants
$488K
City of Hope · Duarte, CA
Research grants
$480K
The J David Gladstone Institutes · San Francisco, CA
Research grants
$320K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
- Cancer
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