AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in Honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research is a competitive three-year research award supporting early-career faculty conducting pancreatic cancer research. The award provides $300,000 in funding to support projects that are basic, translational, clinical, or population-science related and have direct applicability to understanding, detection, diagnosis, or treatment of pancreatic cancer. Recipients will have opportunities to interact and collaborate with the Lustgarten Foundation-funded investigator network and the AACR grantee community. The program seeks to support development and diversity of promising investigators, with particular emphasis on female investigators.

Three-year $300,000 research award; opportunities to collaborate with Lustgarten Foundation-funded investigators and AACR grantee community.

Applicants must hold a doctoral degree (PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent) and hold a faculty position with the title of assistant professor, instructor, research assistant professor, or equivalent by the start of the grant term (July 1, 2027). Applicants must have started their first independent faculty position within the past six years as of the grant start date (with limited exceptions for leave), have independent laboratory space, not be candidates for another doctoral degree, not be employees/subcontractors of U.S. federal government entities or for-profit industry, and not concurrently hold another AACR grant. By the submission deadline applicants must be AACR Active members in good standing and members of the Women in Cancer Research (WICR) constituency group.

Complete online application via ProposalCentral by the stated deadline; applicants must be AACR Active members in good standing and members of the WICR constituency group at submission.