Cancer Research Grant Program
Ash Charitable Foundation, Mary Kay (MKACF)
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=40874

2/15/09. One submission per institute, $100,000

The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation's (MKACF's) Cancer Research Grant Program provides innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or cervical cancer to medical scientists throughout the United States who are searching for a cure for these cancers that affect women.

IDPH

Ticket for the Cure
http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/fund.htm

**waiting on update

Standard Research Grants are intended to support research related to breast cancer in the following areas: prevention, etiology, pathogenesis, screening, early detection, treatment and psychosocial issues. Research may include clinical trials. All research applications must be based on sound research methodology. Although many of the applications

submitted are biomedical and technical in nature, the Ticket for the Cure Research Fund allows for a broad range of research topics, including behavioral studies

IDPH
Penny Severns Breast and Cervical Cancer Research Grant
fellowship grant
http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/fund.htm

3/14/08, $35K/yr

To provide additional supervised research training to individuals in post-doc programs to develop skills necessary for a career in breast and cervical cancers research.

Pfeiffer Research Foundation
Research Grants
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=177

1/8/08, 7/25/08, $75,000

Basic biomedical and pharmacological research will be limited to support for projects in breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer, with emphasis on translational research.

AACR Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Career Development Award in Breast Cancer Research
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=36523

$100,000, 12/01/08

Awards to provide transitional support as investigators move from postdoc studies to faculty.

Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Susan G.
Basic, Clinical, and Translational Research Grant
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=18354

8/30/08, $250,000

The Basic, Clinical, and Translational Research Grant is offered with the intent to interest and foster investigations into the cause, treatment, prevention, and cure of breast cancers. Studies may be clinical, basic, or translational in design.

Friends You Can Count On
Small Grants in Cancer Detection/Screening
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=44854

12/1/08, $40,000

Pilot projects that focus on new methods to improve detection of early breast cancer, and is especially interested in the development of new techniques in the areas of biological or immunologic methods to detect early stage breast cancer

Mary Kay Ash Foundation
Innovative/Translations Cancer Research Awards
 http://www.mkacf.org/PDF/Cancer_Grant_Application.pdf

2/15/08, One application per institution.

 up to $100,000 for 2 yrs.

Translational Research in ovarian, uterine, breast, cervical cancers. Such research would lead to improvement in diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, or treatment of the cancers. Translational research is broadly defined as research that will provide a scientific link between lab research and the clinic.

Cancer Research Foundation of America
Research and Education Grants
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=449

2/28/08, 9/14/08, $80,000

Priority will be given in the following areas, projects that may lead directly to reducing the incidence of cancer; primary and secondary prevention research on breast, cervix, colon, lung, prostate, and skin cancers; proposals for research fellowships in cancer prevention; grants to cancer prevention researchers at the instructor or assistant professor level; grants to more senior researchers who have shifted their area of interest toward primary and secondary cancer prevention; and creative or innovative approaches to cancer prevention research.

Avon Breast Cancer Care Fund
Avon Breast Health Access Fund
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=12472

8/24/08, $60,000

The Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund provides financial support in the form of grants to community-based programs that conduct outreach, provide breast cancer education and link medically underserved women to clinical screening services. Funding is awarded to organizations implementing a program that provides education and information on breast health and breast cancer, and helps women access medical providers, ensuring that women in need obtain breast cancer screening and any follow-up care they may require.

DHHS, NIH

Protein Biomarkers of Infection-Associated Cancers (R01)

http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=104954

2/5/08 6/5/08 10/5/08. Size and duration of award will vary.

This initiative encourages research to identify proteomic markers for risk assessment and early detection in individuals exposed to infectious agents that have been linked to cancer. Proposals may involve a number of infectious agents showing associations with cancer. Noteworthy viral agents of interest to this program are human papilloma virus (HPV), hepatitis B and C viruses, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and Simian Virus 40.