Stanford Cancer Institute

SCI Internal Funding Opportunities

SCI Innovation Award
May 23, 2024

SCI Innovation Award

In keeping with its core mission, the Stanford Cancer Institute has been dedicated to advancing cancer research through the SCI Innovation Awards program since 2013. The awards support projects focused on accelerating basic, translational, clinical, and population-based cancer research and projects focused on specific types of cancer, such as pancreatic, breast, gynecologic, and sarcoma cancers.
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External Funding Opportunities - Limited Submission

(Requiring SCI Internal Reviews & Selection)

External Funding Opportunities

(Not Requiring SCI Internal Reviews & Selection)

Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities

Multiple dates

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Grant Bridge

Grant Bridge is a tool developed by Emerson Collective which checks eligibility for investigators to add NIH administrative supplements that promote diversity in health-related research onto research project grants, such as the R01. 

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SCI Funding Awards

  • SCI Innovation Award

    In keeping with its core mission, the Stanford Cancer Institute has been dedicated to advancing cancer research through the SCI Innovation Awards program since 2013. The awards support projects focused on accelerating basic, translational, clinical,...

  • Shmunis Family Innovation Awards in Cancer Therapeutics

    The Shmunis Family Innovation Award supports the bold and creative research of Stanford cancer researchers with award funding of $50,000-$100,000 per project to develop and test potential new therapeutic drug candidates that could lead to early...

  • SCI Fellowship Awards

    As an NCI Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI)’s mission is to translate Stanford discoveries into individualized cancer care and prevention. In keeping with its important goal of educating and empowering the...

  • Community Partnership Seed Grants

    The goal of this program is to foster cancer prevention and control efforts that are community driven by partnering Stanford researchers, physicians, trainees and/or staff with community partners to jointly develop projects focused on addressing the...

  • SCI Equity Impact Research Grants

    The grant’s Challenge Award is focused on understanding and addressing the impact of climate change on cancer disparities in the San Joaquin Valley. The grant’s Seed Grants track seeks to address and reduce cancer disparities among underserved...

  • (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant

    American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants at SCI Pilot Program at the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) is to attract and increase the number of junior faculty members, including highly qualified physicians, physician-scientists,...