Rally Career Development Award

Purpose: Provides opportunity for investigators to develop independent research by funding a significant portion of their salary to ensure protected research time. Helps investigators progress from mentorship to independence.

Eligibility:

• Investigators in their first independent faculty appointment
• At a critical career stage where they must establish themselves through research, publications and grant funding
• Nominated by invited institutions (institution must be invited to nominate)
• One researcher per invited institution

Research Focus Areas: Rally research grants must address at least one of the following priority areas:

• Innovative approaches to research that could lead to advanced studies, better delivery of treatment or clinical trials
• Basic science studies that are likely to lead to a new discovery
• Under-studied cancer types
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies
• Personalized, targeted, alternative or integrative research proposals
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing

Geographic Scope: International (institutions worldwide)

Research Levels Funded: Bench science, translational, and clinical research

Selection Process: Competitive dual peer-review process conducted by Rally Medical Advisory Board (leading childhood cancer experts)

Contact Information:

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (404) 847-1270
• Mailing Address: 5775 Glenridge Drive Building B, Suite 370 Atlanta, GA 30328
• Federal Tax ID: #20-1950849

Background: Rally Foundation has awarded $40.5 million in childhood cancer research grants funding 683 projects at institutions worldwide between 2006 and 2025. In 2026, 14 Career Development Awards were given.