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Opportunity:  Scholar (Career Development) Award, https://www.stbaldricks.org/for-researchers

Sponsor: St. Baldrick’s Foundation, (SBF)

Length of funding: Three years, possibility for additional two years after that

Funding Amount: Years 1-3, up to $110,000/ year. Years 4-5, (conditional), up to $115,000/year. Funding is to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary and fringe.

Cost Share? No.

Internal deadline:   10/29/2025 @ 11:59 pm EST.

Description: 

The St. Baldrick’s three-year Scholar (Career Development) Award, with an option for two (2) additional years based on progress, is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their pediatric cancer research careers.

  • Applicants should hold a Ph.D., M.D., or D.O. degree in a field of research specialty by the date the award becomes effective (July 1, 2025)
  • At the time the award begins (7/1/2026), applicants must have held, or will hold by the award start date, a full time faculty position for no more than seven (7) years (on, or after, July 1, 2019).
  • Well established or senior investigators are not eligible to apply.
  • St. Baldrick’s funds may not be used for human embryonic stem cell research.
  • Scholars may receive funding from other sources to support their research. However, no other comparable or higher (monetary value) career development award may be held prior to or at the time the award begins. Scientific or budgetary overlap with other funded projects is not allowed.
  • In the event of comparable or higher (monetary value) career development funding after the LOI has been approved, the Scholar must give up the remainder of their St. Baldrick’s award, unless otherwise approved by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
  • Applicants holding or awarded R01s at the time of the LOI are not eligible to apply. Applicants cannot hold a NIH K-award at the time that they apply (institutional K12 funding is allowable).
  • Applicants must have an appropriate Sponsor who provides supervision, facilities, and research support. If appropriate for the project, applicants may have more than one (1) Sponsor.
  • Research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to pediatric cancer. They may be in any discipline of basic, clinical, translational, or epidemiological research.

For more information and to apply, please click here, https://btly.communityforce.com/46eBH8K