American Diabetes Association (ADA): 2025 Pathway to Stop Diabetes - Initiator Award (INI) & Accelerator Award (ACE)

Apply to Internal Competition // Limit: 2* // Tickets Available: 2

Basic through Pre-clinical Research Studies // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Clinical through Public Health Research // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

ADA will accept up to two (2) nominations per institution with one (1) nomination spanning basic through preclinical research and one (1) nomination spanning clinical through public health research.

External Deadline
7/23/2025
Internal Deadline
May 14

2025 Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust Awards Program for Coronary Heart Disease Research

Apply to Internal Competition // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

Program Overview:
The Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust Awards Program for Coronary Heart Disease Research supports research in the area of the prevention of coronary heart disease or circulatory failure and improving care for these patients. The Program focuses on basic and translational scientific research. Clinical studies are currently ineligible.

External Deadline
7/8/2025
Internal Deadline
April 30

Susan G. Komen Rising Star Researcher Award 2025

Apply to Internal Competition // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate one applicant for the Susan G. Komen Rising Star Researcher Award 2025 which recognizes innovative work, budding leadership and dedicated mentorship in breast cancer research and treatment.

For more information please contact: UACC-PreAward.

External Deadline
5/12/2025
Internal Deadline
May 5

V Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant 2025

Apply to Internal Competition // Limit: 2* // Tickets Available: 2

The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate can nominate up to two proposals: one Translational OR V Scholar nominee and one All-Star nominee (if eligible) for the V Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant 2025.

External Deadline
5/7/2025
Internal Deadline
April 28

NEA 2025 Our Town Program

The University of Arizona is ineligible to apply due to new combined institutional limit of one submission to Our Town or Grants for Art Projects (GAP) and a competitive resubmission to GAP. 

Updated Eligibility Criteria

Organizations may no longer submit applications in the same fiscal year for both Grants for Arts Projects and Our Town funding categories (a separate application in the Research Awards category is allowable). Please carefully review the application limits section of the guidelines.

External Deadline
TBA May 2025

Brain Research Foundation 2026 Scientific Innovations Award

Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

J. Streicher (Pharmacology)

Objective
The program's objective is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high-impact findings and result in major grant applications and funding as well as significant publications in high-impact journals.

Eligibility

External Deadline
6/3/2025
Internal Deadline
April 16

NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00 - Independent Clinical Trial Required) - June 2025 Deadline

Limit: 4* (see number of applications) // Tickets Available: 3

Cancer Data Science // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Cancer Control Science // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0 
S. Yeo (Epidemiology and Biostatistics, competitive resubmission)

Molecular Precision/Cancer Prevention // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

External Deadline
6/16/2025
Internal Deadline
April 16