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Cancer Prevention Research

Paul Talalay We’ve been funding cancer prevention research since 1985...

For 23 years, the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to nearly 400 early-career scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. The Foundation’s vigorous grants and fellowships selection process is similar to the process used at the National Institutes of Health.

Research proposals are reviewed by members of the distinguished Scientific Review Panel, drawn from institutions such as the National Cancer Institute, Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Johns Hopkins Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania.

Researcher with microscope The Foundation’s Board of Directors approves funding for grants and fellowships to promising scientists who are doing remarkable work in fighting cancer. Researchers who are awarded grants and fellowships will receive $40,000 a year for two years.

“The Prevent Cancer Foundation is the first funding source for many new investigators. This allows for an influx of talented young investigators to engage in prevention research and generate the preliminary data to successfully compete for major federal grants. This is a wonderful investment in ensuring that vibrant new approaches to cancer prevention will continue to emerge,” says James Mulshine, M.D., co-chairman of the Foundation’s Scientific Review Panel, member of the Foundation’s board of directors and professor of internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

“These talented minds are our hope for a cancer-free future and I am delighted that our grants and fellowships will support them as they continue their life-saving work. It is because of them, and researchers like them, that we have come so far in cancer prevention,” says Carolyn Aldigé, president and founder of the Prevent Cancer Foundation. “And it will be because of them, and researchers like them, that we will continue to make progress toward a cancer-free future.”

Read more about the cancer prevention research we’ve already funded here:

David Alberts