DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer, Career Development Award – Scholar Option
- Posted
- May 22, 2025
- Closed
- July 3, 2025
- Program funding
- $9,900,000
- Expected awards
- 9
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 12.420
- Archives
- August 2, 2025
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 12.420 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.3B
- FY2026 obligated
- $598.5M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 4,414
Top recipients: The Univeristy of Texas M.d. Anderson Cancer Center, Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, the, University of California, Los Angeles, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
Summary: The fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) Career Development Award – Scholar Option (CDA-SO) supports an independent, highly accomplished early-career investigator (referred to as a Scholar) to conduct impactful research under the guidance of an experienced cancer researcher (i.e., Career Guide). Under this award mechanism, the early-career investigator is considered the Principal Investigator (PI), and the application should focus on the PI’s research and career development.
Distinctive Features: The Scholar must designate a Career Guide. The Career Guide can only be a mentor to one CDA-SO applicant and must be willing to commit to participation in the Virtual Cancer Center. Scholars are required to participate in the unique, interactive Virtual Cancer Center (VCC) focused on fostering the next generation of cancer researchers.
Funding Details: (New for FY25) Funding limits are now listed as total cost limits, which is the combination of both direct and indirect costs.
Who can apply
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
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