The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 100 national research and training grants totaling more than $45.6 million in the first of two grant cycles for 2015. The grants will fund investigators at 63 institutions across the United States; 92 are new grants while eight are renewals of previous grants. The grants go into effect June 1, 2015.
Among the new awards are two prestigious American Cancer Society Research Professorship Awards:
Since 1946, the American Cancer Society has funded research and training of health professionals to investigate the causes, prevention, and early detection of cancer, as well as new treatments, cancer survivorship, and end of life support for patients and their families. In those nearly 70 years, the American Cancer Society's extramural research grants program has devoted more than $4 billion to cancer research and has funded 47 researchers who have won the Nobel Prize.
The Council also approved 122 research applications for funding totaling more than $71.5 million that could not be funded due to budgetary constraints. These "pay-if" grants represent work that passed the Society's multi-disciplinary review process but are beyond the Society's current funding resources. These "pay-if" grants can be and often are subsidized by individual donors who wish to support research that would not otherwise be funded. In 2014, more than $5.6 million in additional funding helped finance 25 "pay-if" grants.
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For more information about the American Cancer Society Research Program, please visit http://www.cancer.org/research .