Limited Submission Opportunity: The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Endeavor Award 2025
URL: https://themarkfoundation.org/endeavor/
OBJECTIVES
The Endeavor Awards supports collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Awards will be made to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts. Teams are encouraged to consider diversity in terms of discipline, seniority, gender, race, ethnicity, and other parameters that will enhance the team’s approach with fresh perspectives.
Eligible projects fit the following criteria:
- Projects that are basic, translational, and clinical projects.
- The project must seek to address an overarching, urgent scientific question. Any sub-projects should be designed to elucidate various aspects of the overarching question, theme, or focus.
- The output of the individual team members (data, samples, hypotheses, compounds, etc.) must be integrated and/or shared in a way that makes the impact of the project as a whole larger than the sum of its parts.
- Proposed projects must not be supported by other sources of funding. Finalists will be asked to discuss any potential overlap with other current or pending awards.
Descriptions of the 2023 Endeavor Award teams can be found here.
FUNDING INFORMATION
$3 million dispersed over a 3-year term including both direct and indirect costs, with indirect costs not to exceed 10% of the direct costs.
The requested funding should be divided amongst team members in a manner proportional to the actual cost of the work carried out by each investigator for the project.
ELIGIBILITY
There are no restrictions on citizenship or geography. Applicants must have an independent faculty appointment (tenure-track or equivalent) at a non-profit academic institution.
Teams must consist of three or more investigators at a single or multiple institutions. They are composed of one PI and between 2 and 8 Co-PIs. The PI’s institution will be considered the host institution. Investigators may be co-PI or collaborator on more than one proposal.
The roles for each member of the team are as follows:
- PI: serves as the single point of contact with MFCR during the application process and the grant period. Does not need to be the most senior member of the team.
- Co-PI: Core member of team leadership whose lab receives at least 10% of the total grant budget.
- Collaborator: Serves as a project consultant or advisor rather than a team leader and whose lab can provide resources, perform experiments, analyses, etc. Receives 0-10% of the budget.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS
BU can put forward 1 submission as the host institution. Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 6/18/2025
- Short Questions outlined in InfoReady Review
- 2-page Project Proposal Summary describing the project’s specific aims, unmet needs addressed, objectives, any preliminary studies, and a high-level description of the experimental approach. Any references may be listed on a third page.
- List of investigators involved, including all Co-PIs (2-8 people) and Collaborators (optional). Please include the following information for each team member: primary appointment title, primary department affiliation, institutional affiliation, and a 1-sentence explanation of their anticipated contributions to the team.
- Up-to-date CV or biosketch for the PIPrincipal Investigator View Boston University's policy on...
As necessary, a faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review the applications and select the team to be nominated.
DEADLINES
Internal Materials Due: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 by 11:59 ET
Anticipated Notification Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Letter of Intent Due: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Finalist Teams Notified: November 2025