Funder: The Pew Charitable Trusts
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $306,000 total: $75,000 annually for four years plus $6,000 travel support; fifth year for continued research
Summary: Supports promising early-career assistant professors pursuing innovative cancer research to accelerate discovery and progress toward a cure.
Key Information: Institutional nomination is required; only participating institutions may nominate, with one nominee per institution.
Description
Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research is a national initiative funded by The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust and administered by The Pew Charitable Trusts. It supports assistant professors of outstanding promise whose research is relevant to advancing a cure for cancer, providing flexible support for research and career development.
The program encourages creative, pioneering approaches to basic, translational, and applied cancer research, particularly ideas with unusually high potential impact. Scientists whose work draws on biomedical principles while incorporating concepts and theories from other fields are encouraged to apply. Clinical trials research is excluded. The program is distinct from the Pew Scholars Program, with separate but parallel nomination and application procedures.
