ASCO Funding and Training Opportunities

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.