Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Introduction

Mission

The mission of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is to identify the most brilliant and promising early-career scientists and provide them with funding to pursue innovative research that will eliminate cancer as a deadly disease.  The Foundation has gained worldwide prominence in cancer research by identifying outstanding researchers and physician-scientists.  Eleven scientists supported by the Foundation have received the Nobel Prize, and others are heads of cancer centers and leaders of renowned research programs. Since its founding in 1946, the Foundation has invested over $220 million and funded more than 3,200 scientists.  This year, it will invest approximately $9 million in the most outstanding young investigators in the nation.

The Foundation offers three award programs aimed at encouraging and advancing the work of these promising cancer researchers.  Each program is designed to address a need or fill a gap in cancer research funding.

Our Awards

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award

The Damon Runyon Fellowship Award supports the training of the brightest postdoctoral scientists as they embark upon their research careers. This funding enables them to be trained by established investigators in leading research laboratories across the country.

• Award Overview
• Application Guidelines
• Award Forms

Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award

The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports early career physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented research. The goal of this innovative program is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient's bedside in search of breakthrough treatments.

Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators are eligible to apply for Continuation Grants in the final year of their award.

• Award Overview
• Application Guidelines
• Award Forms

Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding.

• Award Overview
• Application Guidelines
• Award Forms

Award Committees

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation's reputation in the scientific community is unsurpassed, in part due to the high standards upheld by its award selection committees. Each committee is composed of world-renowned scientists who are leaders in their fields of research. They review all applications and select award recipients, who are then approved by the Damon Runyon Board of Directors.

• Fellowship Award Committee
• Clinical Investigator Award Committee
• Innovation Award Committee

Listing of all Current Projects

Contact Us

General Line:  212.455.0500
Award Programs:  212.455.0520

One Exchange Plaza
55 Broadway, Suite 302
New York, NY 10006
www.damonrunyon.org

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