DoW Pancreatic Cancer Research Program, Idea Development Award
Funds high-risk, high-reward pancreatic cancer research ideas, with an optional funding boost for pairing an early-career investigator with a mentor.
Not every promising idea in pancreatic cancer research fits a conservative, incremental study, and this award exists for the ones that do not — work whose payoff, if it succeeds, is a critical discovery or a major shift in outcomes.
The Idea Development Award funds exactly that kind of high-risk, high-reward thinking, and every application has to land inside at least one of the programme's FY26 F…
Innovative, high-risk/high-reward pancreatic cancer research addressing at least one FY26 PCARP Focus Area, requiring preliminary data relevant to the proposed project. Clinical research studies are permitted; clinical trials are not. An optional Partnering PI structure pairs an experienced Initiating PI with an Early-Career Investigator as Partnering PI, at a higher funding level.
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