Career Development Award

The 2025 Career Development Award program is now open for application submissions.

The Career Development Award supports future research leaders who will keep the field of lung cancer research vibrant with new ideas. Research projects that will be funded in 2025 are expected to have a direct impact on the early detection of lung cancer and/or individualized lung cancer treatment, including through targeted therapy and immunotherapy. This award is open to applicants in the US only.

Award Guidelines

• Applicants must hold a doctoral degree and be within the first five (5) years of their first faculty appointment with any academic institution, including research institutions that are not formally associated with a university and have completed a postdoctoral training fellowship.
• This is a mentored award. A mentoring plan is required as part of the application.
• Awards may be for a maximum of $300,000 ($100,000 per year for 3 years).
• Annual milestones must be met.

Note: LUNGevity will grant only one award per institution.

LUNGevity uses a two-step application process:

1. A letter of intent (LOI), with a brief overview of the proposed project and biographical information
2. A full application with an extended narrative about the project, as well as supporting information and documentation. (Because there are a limited number of awards, only a subset of applicants will be invited to submit a full application after the LOI review is completed.)

Reviewers are drawn from LUNGevity’s Scientific Advisory Board and other lung cancer experts. Awardees have progress and financial reporting obligations during their award term.

A complete description of the award, terms and conditions, and instructions are included in the 2025 Career Development Award RFA. All application materials must be submitted via proposalCENTRAL.

2025 Award Timeline