Brown University offers multiple graduate programs in cancer-related research areas. Graduate students must be accepted to a Brown University Graduate Program in order to work in faculty laboratories. We encourage prospective students to reach out to individual research programs to learn more about course offerings and potential mentorship.

Under Principal Investigator, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, the Legorreta Cancer Center has a three year, American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS IRG) to support early career cancer researchers.   

The next call for proposals will be in the Fall of 2024.

ACS IRG Information

Eligibility

1. IRG pilot project grants are intended to support independent, self-directed investigators early in their careers, who have research facilities, resources, or space to conduct independent research.
2. These individuals (usually assistant professors or equivalent) must be eligible to apply for independent national competitive research grants but may not currently hold such a grant.
3. Applicants for pilot project grants should be within six years of their first independent research or faculty appointment. Support of senior investigators or postdoctoral fellows is not permitted.
4. Funds are available to support cancer-related proposals from any school, college, or department within Brown University and its academic affiliated hospitals.
5. Recipients of IRG pilot project grants are not required to be U.S. citizens. However, any applicant who is not a U.S. citizen must hold a visa that will allow them to remain in the U.S. long enough to complete the IRG pilot project. support cancer-related proposals from any health sciences school, college, or department within the institution

Amount

Up to three projects will be awarded a maximum of $40,000 (direct cost only) for one year. A one-time competitive renewal for an additional year of funding is possible.

In collaboration with the American Cancer Society Fostering Innovations Award, Morehouse School of Medicine and the Brown University Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, the Legorreta Cancer Center Summer Internship Program provides MD, MA, MD/PhD and PhD students at Morehouse an opportunity for a 4- or 8-week research-intensive internship.  Our program is designed for students with an interest in gaining hands-on basic, translational or clinical research. Students will be assigned to individual Legorreta Cancer Center faculty advisors during their rotations, as well as a lab mentor for the rotation in a specific lab.

The next call for applications for this program will be in Spring 2025.