- Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
- Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Fellowship Award *NEW*
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
- Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
The Damon Runyon Fellowship Award supports the training of the brightest postdoctoral scientists as they embark upon their research careers. This funding enables them to be trained by established investigators in leading research laboratories across the country.
Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award
The Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award provides funding to basic scientists and clinicians who conduct research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers.
Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists
At the end of the Fellowship and Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Awards, there are often a select few Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Fellows who have greatly exceeded the Foundation’s highest expectations. To catapult their research careers—and their impact on cancer—the Foundation will make an additional investment in these exceptional individuals by selecting them as recipients of the Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists. This award was created to honor Dale F. Frey, retired Chairman of the Damon Runyon Board of Directors, in recognition of his sixteen years of visionary leadership.
Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
NOTICE: The application deadline date for this award has been changed to February 15, 2012. Other changes to the award eligibility/guidelines have also been made. Please review materials carefully.
The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports early career physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented research. The goal of this innovative program is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient’s bedside in search of breakthrough treatments.
Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators are eligible to apply for Continuation Grants in the final year of their award.
At the April 2011 meeting of the Clinical Investigator Award Committee, four Clinical Investigators were selected to receive Continuation Grants- Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH; Rachael A. Clark, MD, PhD; Vassiliki Karantza, MD, PhD; and Elahe A. Mostaghel, MD, PhD.
Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding.