Scholar in Clinical Research

Award: $125,000 per year for five years

Eligibility requirements have changed. Starting this cycle, all non-mentored, faculty-level positions are considered independent for eligibility determination. In addition, those with a title of Full Professor (or equivalent) at the award start date (July 1 of the upcoming year) are no longer eligible for this program.*Please refer to the Guidelines & Instructions for more details regarding changes to the eligibility criteria if applying to this category.

Requirements: You must be a highly qualified investigator who holds an independent faculty-level appointment and is conducting independent clinical research, often involving early-stage clinical trials, that will advance the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of hematologic malignancies and/or relevant pre-malignant conditions.The research should be related to your clinical activities and must directly involve patients. You are expected to have support for your research from another source.

Special Fellow

Award: $75,000 per year for two or three years; starting this cycle, the minimum stipend/salary going directly to the awardee is $70,000/year.

Requirements: You must be a highly qualified postdoctoral fellow or instructor who has between 3 and 5 years of postdoctoral research training by the award start date. You must be in a mentored research position, continuing a research program of direct relevance to hematologic malignancies and/or relevant pre-malignant conditions. In addition, your Sponsor must have the appropriate experience to mentor you as you engage in blood cancer-relevant research. This award provides you with the opportunity to continue building a research program that will make you competitive for an independent position by the end of the award funding period.

Fellow

Award: $70,000 per year for three years; starting this cycle, the minimum stipend/salary going directly to the awardee is $65,000/year.

Requirements: You must be a promising postdoctoral fellow or instructor with less than 3 years of postdoctoral research training by the award start date. This award encourages you to embark on an academic career involving basic or translational research in hematologic malignancies and/or relevant premalignant conditions under a research sponsor's direction. Your research must be directly relevant to hematologic malignancies and/or relevant pre-malignant conditions. In addition, your Sponsor must have the appropriate experience to mentor you as you engage in research of direct relevance to blood cancer.