Lustgarten Foundation Innovation and Collaboration Program
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Lustgarten Foundation Innovation and Collaboration Program supports pancreatic cancer investigators with seed funding for testable, collaborative research that could challenge prevailing ideas and help make the disease curable.
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Funder: Lustgarten Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $110,000, including indirect costs, for one year
Summary: Seed funding for innovative pancreatic cancer research that could change prevailing ideas or open new directions.
Key Information: The principal investigator must hold an independent faculty position or equivalent.
Description
The Lustgarten Foundation’s Innovation and Collaboration Program provides seed funding for pancreatic cancer research with significant potential to advance its mission of transforming the disease into a curable one. It seeks plausible, testable ideas that address outstanding questions and could change the current paradigm or conventional wisdom, rather than incrementally extending existing research.
The program prefers proposals that connect research groups or bring new expertise or technology into the field. Topics are not restricted; work may address the Foundation’s priorities in early detection and interception, therapeutic development, or personalized medicine. Proposals on understudied or poorly understood aspects of pancreatic cancer biology receive preference.
