Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

Funds CPRIT, Texas state agency leading cancer prevention and treatment research investment.

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, known as CPRIT, is Texas's voter-created state agency for cancer research and prevention. It began with a 2007 referendum that authorized $3 billion, and Texas voters added another $3 billion in 2019, making it a $6 billion, 20-year initiative with $4.07 billion awarded across 2,223 grants to 155 organizations since 2008.

It backs Academic Research at Texas universities and research institutions, Prevention work that sends 10 percent of funds into evidence-based interventions, and Product Development Research for Texas-based companies. Open RFAs show awards reaching $4 million for investigator recruitment, $2.5 million for expansion-stage prevention projects, and $450,000 for dissemination work, while product-development awards are structured as revenue-sharing support for companies that stay rooted in Texas.

Applications move through formal RFAs and the CPRIT grants portal, and the review structure keeps outside-Texas reviewers on academic, prevention, and product-development councils. The strongest fit is a Texas university team, nonprofit, or company with a cancer-focused project that can clear a competitive review and meet the state's location requirement.