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AACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research
Offered by American Association for Cancer Research
The AACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research represent the AACR’s flagship funding initiative to stimulate highly innovative research from young investigators. This grant mechanism is intended to promote and support creative, paradigm-shifting cancer research that may not be funded through conventional channels. It is expected that these grants will catalyze significant scientific discoveries and help talented young investigators gain scientific independence. The grants provide $450,000 over three years for expenses related to the research project, which may include salary and benefits of the grant recipient, postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, graduate students (including tuition costs), and research assistants, research/laboratory supplies, equipment, travel applicable to the research project, publication charges for manuscripts that pertain directly to the funded project, other research expenses, and indirect costs.
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Deadline Invalid Date
Award Amount $450 000
Duration 3
Frequency Annual
Host Country United States
Mobility Rule No
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Comments The annual program is designed to stimulate highly innovative research from young investigators. Three-year grants of up to $450,000 will be awarded to promote and support creative, paradigm-shifting cancer research that may not be funded through conventional channels. Research projects must represent a highly innovative approach to a major contemporary challenge in cancer research. The research, which can be in any area of basic, translational or clinical science, must have the potential to lead to groundbreaking discoveries in the field and transform understanding of the tumorigenesis process and/or our ability to treat, detect, or prevent cancer.
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Last Verified 19 February 2026 by asntech
Last Updated May 2020
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