Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Awards
Application Deadline: December 10, 2021
The awards recognize extraordinary women leaders in oncology and role models who have excelled as a mentor and have demonstrated outstanding commitment to the professional development of women colleagues as clinicians, educators, and researchers in oncology.

Advanced Clinical Research Award (ACRA) for Diversity and Inclusion in Breast Cancer Research
Letters of Intent Deadline: December 14, 2021
Designed with the primary goal of increasing diversity in the oncology workforce and cancer research.

Research Professorship for Diversity and Inclusion in Breast Cancer
Letters of Intent Deadline: December 14, 2021
Given to an established investigator who is a member of racial and/or ethnic groups traditionally excluded in academic medicine and breast cancer research.

Endowed Young Investigator Award (YIA) in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Provides funding to promising investigators to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology with a focus on mantle cell lymphoma.

Endowed Young Investigator Award (YIA) in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Provides funding to promising investigators to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology with a focus on chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Endowed Young Investigator Award (YIA) in Geriatric Oncology
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Provides funding to promising investigators to encourage and promote quality research in geriatric oncology.

Jose Baselga, MD, PhD, Young Investigator Award (YIA) in Drug Development
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Provides funding to promising investigators to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology with a focus on drug development, from discovery to development of new therapeutic drugs for cancer treatment.

Career Development Award (CDA) for Diversity and Inclusion in Breast Cancer Research
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Provides funding to clinical investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment and identify as members of racial and/or ethnic groups traditionally excluded in academic medicine and biomedical research.

Young Investigator Award (YIA) for Diversity and Inclusion in Breast Cancer Research
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Provides funding to promising investigators who identify as members of racial and/or ethnic groups traditionally excluded in academic medicine and biomedical research.

Young Investigator Award (YIA) for Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Research
Application Deadline: January 10, 2022
Designed to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology with a focus on invasive lobular breast cancer.

Long-Term International Fellowship (LIFe)
Application Deadline: January 13, 2022
Provides early-career oncologists in low- to middle-income countries the support and resources needed to advance their training by deepening their relationship with a mentor at a host institution in the United States, Canada, or Europe.

Medical Student Rotation for Underrepresented Populations
Application Deadline: January 25, 2022
Provides financial support for U.S. medical students from populations underrepresented in medicine and who are interested in oncology as a career to experience a minimum 4-week clinical or clinical research rotation.

Diversity Mentoring Program
Application Deadline: January 25, 2022
Designed to encourage U.S.-based medical students and residents who are underrepresented in medicine to pursue rewarding careers in oncology by pairing with a mentor.

Young Investigator Award (YIA) in Medulloblastoma
Application Deadline: January 31, 2022
Designed to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology with a focus on medulloblastoma.

Young Investigator Award (YIA) in Ovarian Cancer
Application Deadline: January 31, 2022
Designed to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology with a focus on ovarian cancer.

Conquer Cancer–Israel Cancer Research Fund Career Development Award
Application Deadline: April 15, 2022
Provides funding to Israeli clinical investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment to establish an independent clinical cancer research program.

Equitable Care of Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Application Deadline: August 4, 2021
Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, and Pfizer Global Medical Grants are collaborating to offer a research grant funding opportunity to promote the advancement of scientific knowledge concerning equitable care of patients with metastatic breast cancer. Apply

The International Innovation Grant (IIG)
Application Deadline: August 31, 2021
The IIG provides research funding in support of novel and innovative projects that can have a significant impact on cancer control in low- and middle-income countries. Apply

The Career Development Award (CDA)
Application Deadline: September 23, 2021
The CDA provides research funding to clinical investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program. Apply

The Young Investigator Award (YIA)
Application Deadline: September 23, 2021
The YIA provides funding to promising investigators to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology. Apply

The Global Oncology Young Investigator Award (GO YIA)
Application Deadline: September 23, 2021
The GO YIA provides research funding to early-career investigators to encourage and promote quality research in global oncology and to develop the next generation of researchers to address global health needs. Apply

The Long-term International Fellowship (LIFe)
Application Deadline: January 13, 2022
The LIFe provides early-career oncologists in low- to middle-income countries the support and resources needed to advance their training by deepening their relationship with a mentor at a host institution in the United States, Canada, or Europe. Apply

Keystone Symposia is looking to expand the reach and diversity of the upcoming critical conference, Precision Oncology: Translating Discovery to the Clinic! and is on the lookout for promising early-career candidates to attend on scholarship.

The conference is scheduled to hold on the eSymposia’s unique interactive platform which features live networking events, career roundtables, meet-the-editor panels, 1:1 appointments with field leaders and interfaces to enable collaboration and mentorship opportunities virtually!

The details of the meeting are below: (more…)

Clement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, professor of epidemiology and public health at the Institute of Human Virology at University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Xiaoli Nan, PhD, MA, a professor of communication science and co-director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at University of Maryland, College Park.

When faculty members from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) wanted to assemble an interdisciplinary team of researchers to find out what influences the African American community when it comes to vaccine hesitancy, there was no trepidation in wondering if the colleagues would receive support.

Many of us on both campuses who have interacted see us as belonging to one institution,” said Clement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, professor of epidemiology and public health at the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and associate director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center’s (UMGCCC) Population Science Program. (more…)