The Cancer Consortium provides a variety of funding opportunities for the purpose of supporting existing members and recruiting new ones, with the ultimate goal of stimulating innovative cancer research. Opportunities include Pilot Awards, New Investigator Awards, and Catchment Area Health Pilot Awards.
Consortium developmental awards are funded through a combination of Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) funds and philanthropic donations. Applications for each award are evaluated by a committee of Consortium faculty reviewers.
Eligibility and application requirements are different for each award. For more information, please review the description and RFA for each individual award.
Consortium members automatically receive notice of new funding opportunities. Fred Hutch, University of Washington, and Seattle Children's faculty and staff who are not members can sign up to receive our RFA's.
Cancer Consortium Pilot Awards: 2026 Competition Now Open
Funds are available from the Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium (“The Consortium”) Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) and philanthropic funds to support cancer-related pilot projects. This competition will provide awards of up to $100,000 direct costs (plus F&A/indrect costs as allowable) for one year of pilot project support.
- Pilot funding eligibility is restricted to Consortium members and provisional members. For full eligibility criteria, see the Application Process section of the RFA.
- There are no limitations on research topic, provided the problem under study is focused on cancer. Highly innovative concepts that have the potential to improve the lives of cancer patients are encouraged. Also, non-interventional cross-disciplinary research is an area of special interest in this competition.
Release date: January 5, 2026
Due date: February 13, 2026
Request for Applications - 2026 Cancer Consortium Pilot Awards
Follow the instructions in the RFA to submit your application via InfoReady.
Questions? Please contact cancerconsortium@fredhutch.org.
New Investigator Award: 2026 Competition Opening in Early April
Funds are available from the Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium ("The Consortium") Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) to provide developmental support to new or junior faculty who are establishing their research within the Consortium. These funds provide a flexible source of funding designed to allow new investigators to work toward obtaining future, independent research funding. Departments are also eligible to apply for this funding to support new faculty being hired by a Consortium institution.
This competition will provide two to three awards of up to $100,000 direct costs each (plus F&A/indirect costs).
In order to be eligible for this award, applicants must meet one or more of the following requirements:
- Consortium members or those eligible to become a member at the time of award. To view detailed membership criteria or apply, click here.
- Assistant Professor level or higher who have begun their appointment at one of the Consortium institutions (Fred Hutch, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s) on or after July of 2022.
- New faculty being recruited who will meet Consortium membership criteria at the time of the award start date (July 1, 2025).
Faculty who meet the following criteria are NOT eligible for this award:
- Faculty who have received a CCSG-funded award of any kind OR a pilot award funded by Safeway or the Hite Foundation within three years of the application deadline (since June 2022).
- Investigators who are PIs on R01, P01, or P50 grants.
- Consortium members in acting faculty positions and faculty with Consortium Affiliate memberships.
All research proposals must be cancer-focused. Financial need will be taken into consideration for those who did not receive substantial research funds as part of their negotiatied start-up package.
Release date: April 1, 2025
Due date: May 16, 2025, by 5:00pm
For additional information and detailed application instructionss, please see the attached RFA:
Request for Applications – 2025 Cancer Consortium New Investigator Awards
Applications are to be submitted using InfoReady.
Contact cancerconsortium@fredhutch.org with any questions.
Catchment Area Health Pilot Awards: Check back in 2027
Funds are available from the Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium ("the Consortium") Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) and non-sponsored funds to support new cancer-related pilot projects focused on the Consortium’s catchment area, which includes the entire state of Washington. Please see pages 1-2 of RFA (linked below) for more information about the cancer burden in the catchment area.
The research plan should address research on cancers relevant to the catchment area and/or the populations that face the highest burden or cancer disparities in the state. This competition will fund one project, at a maximum of up to $100,000 in direct costs (plus F&A/indirect costs), for one year.
Consortium members are eligible for this pilot funding. Only eligible applicants may serve as the Principal Investigator on the pilot applicaiton; however, non-Consortium members and affiliate members may be involved on the project as collaborators. Consortium members who have received a CCSG-funded award of any kind (including a Safeway award) within three years of the anticipated start date of April 1, 2025, are not eligible to apply.
Release date — January 2, 2025
Due date — February 14, 2025
For additional information about the award, eligibility, and the application process, please see the attached RFA:
Request for Applications - 2025 Cancer Consortium Catchment Area Health Pilot Award
Applications should be submitted through InfoReady.
Contact the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement (OCOE) at EndDisparities@FredHutch.org with any questions.
Survivorship Pilot Award: 2026 Competition Opening in Fall
The Survivorship Program invites proposals of high impact and innovation that will promote new research directions focused on cancer survivors. The goal of this award is to stimulate cross-institutional collaborations (Fred Hutch, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s) and/or new collaborations between Consortium investigators who have not previously worked together.
For additional information, click here to view the full RFA for the Cancer Consortium Survivorship Research Pilot Award.
- At least one of the primary investigators should be a Cancer Consortium investigator (https://www.cancerconsortium.org/en/membership.html).
- Priority will be given to applications that center on cross-institutional collaborations (investigators with primary appointments at different Consortium partners) and/or new collaborations (which can be among investigators based at the same Consortium partner but who have no previously co-funded work and no significant non-funded prior collaborations).
- Priority will be given to investigators who have not previously received a Survivorship Pilot award.
- A member of the application team will be asked to pitch their proposal at the Late Effects & Survivorship Seminar on January 9, 2025 (1 to 3pm).
Due date: December 31, 2024
Awardees will be announced no later than February 1, 2025.
Submit as a PDF file labeled with your last names and shortened title containing the following information to Emily Artim (erajotte@fredhutch.org):
- Project Title, Investigator Names, Institutional Positions, with brief explanation of how this represents a cross-institutional collaboration and/or new collaboration (if relevant)
- Proposal (limited to 2 pages, NIH formatting rules), including as appropriate: Background (i.e., significance/innovation), Aims and Hypotheses, Approach (any preliminary data [not required], study design, statistical considerations [highly encouraged]), and Future Plans (i.e., how will this award lead to new grants)
- Any tables and figures (limited to 1 additional page)
- References (limited to 1 additional page)
- Investigator biosketches (NIH format)
Contact Dr. Eric Chow, Co-Director of the Fred Hutch Survivorship Program (ericchow@uw.edu) with any questions.
Trainee Travel Award: 2026 Competition Now Open
The Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium Trainee Travel Award. This award is available to postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and medical fellows whose faculty advisor is a member of the Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium. Faculty members can be found on the Cancer Consortium website. The scholarship can be applied to registration, travel, and accommodation costs for any conference that will further their professional development. The award is for up to $1,500 or the cost of the conference, whichever is less. Expenses and travel for these awards MUST be completed and paid by May 29, 2026.
Important Dates
- Application Deadline: Friday, January 30, 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.
Application Instructions
There are multiple possible awards and eligibility for the various awards based on your position/title and institution. In addition to providing information about your conference, you will be asked the following:
Provide a statement outlining how taking this conference will help you achieve your current and/or future career goals.
If you are asking for more than $500, you will need a PI or faculty advisor to submit a letter of recommendation, identify another reference, or provide an explanation if you will not have a reference.
Provide an abstract if you intend to present a talk or a poster at a conference. Due to the current travel restrictions, presenting commitments are required.
You can find the application here: Apply Now
Contact
- KC Cruz at kcruz@fredhutch.org
Pilot Award
- Hiba Khan, MD+ | Prostate Cancer | UW
- Alexander Mendenhall, PhD^ | Cancer Basic Biology | UW
- Yasemin Sancak, PhD | Cancer Basic Biology | UW
- Parth Shah, PharmD, PhD | Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention & Control | Fred Hutch
+ Catchment Area Pilot; ^ Cross Disciplinary
New Investigator Award
- Yasuhiro Arimura, PhD | Cancer Basic Biology | Fred Hutch
- Nicholas Riley, PhD | Cancer Basic Biology | Fred Hutch
- Kamen Simeonov, PhD | Cancer Basic Biology | Fred Hutch
- Autumn York, PhD | Cancer Immunology | UW
Survivorship Award
- Paul Carpenter, MD | Hematologic Malignancies | Fred Hutch
- Stacey Cohen, MD | Non-Programatically Aligned | UW
- Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS | Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention & Control | Fred Hutch
- Stephanie Lee, MD, MPH | Hematologic Malignancies | Fred Hutch
- Veena Shankaran, MD | Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention & Control | Fred Hutch
- Megan Shen, PhD | Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention & Control | Fred Hutch