Funder: CureSearch for Children's Cancer
Due Dates: April 14, 2027 (Letter of Intent) | July 16, 2027 (Invited full applications)
Funding Amounts: Up to $225,000 over three years (up to $75,000 per year)
Summary: Supports early-career scientists pursuing innovative pediatric cancer research with the potential to deliver better, safer treatments for children.
Key Information: Full applications are by invitation following review of a Letter of Intent.
Description
CureSearch’s Young Investigator Award supports early-career scientists pursuing bold ideas in pediatric oncology. Positioned primarily at the drug design stage of CureSearch’s research funding continuum, the program supports identifying and validating therapeutic targets. Its goal is to help promising investigators develop discoveries that could become better, safer treatments for children with cancer.
Funded work explores cancer biology and therapeutic responses across childhood leukemias, brain tumors, and solid tumors. Projects have investigated neuronal activity in diffuse hemispheric glioma, CAR T cells for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia, T cell therapies for neuroblastoma, and tumor microenvironment modulation in osteosarcoma. Alongside research funding, investigators receive mentorship, educational programming, and connections to CureSearch’s broader research community to help build long-term careers in pediatric cancer research.
