Grants provide funding for new projects initiated by scientists at an early stage of their career, or for established scientists wishing to change the direction of their research.
Here you will find a comprehensive list of worldwide agencies and bodies that provide grants for varying areas of oncology. For more information on a specific grant or agency, please click on the relevant link provided.
| American Association for Cancer Research | http://www.aacr.org/ |
| American Cancer Society | http://www.cancer.org |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | http://www.aicr.org |
| Breast Cancer Campaign | http://www.breastcancercampaign.org |
| Breast Cancer Research Trust | http://www.breastcancerresearchtrust.org.uk |
| British Association for Cancer Research | http://www.bacr.org.uk |
| British Lung Foundation | http://www.lunguk.org |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Canada) | http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca |
| Cancerfonden (Sweden) | http://www.cancerfonden.se |
| Cancer Research And Prevention Foundation | http://www.preventcancer.org |
| Cancer Research Institute | http://www.cancerresearch.org |
| Cancer Research UK | http://www.cancerresearchuk.org |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) | http://www.cnrs.fr |
| Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) | http://www.csic.es |
| Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Denmark) | http://www.dg.dk |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) | http://www.dfg.de |
| EC (European Commission) Framework 7 Programme (FP7) | http://www.Cordis.europa.eu |
| European Association for Cancer Research | http://www.eacr.org |
| European Society of Surgical Oncology | http://www.esso-surgeonline.be |
| FAPESP (Brazil) | http://www.fapesp.br |
| Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique | http://www.fnrs.be |
| Indian Council of Medical Research (India) | http://www.icmr.nic.in |
| INSERM (France) | http://www.inserm.fr |
| Institut Curie | http://www.curie.fr |
| International Agency for Research on Cancer | http://www.iarc.fr |
| International Human Frontier Science Program Organization | http://www.hfsp.org |
| International Myeloma Foundation | http://www.myeloma.org |
| International Union Against Cancer | http://www.uicc.org |
| Israel Science Foundation (Israel) | http://www.isf.org.il/English |
| James S McDonnell Foundation (USA) | http://www.jsmf.org |
| Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research | http://www.jccfund.org |
| Leukaemia Research | http://www.lrf.org.uk |
| Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (USA) | http://www.leukemia.org |
| MARF - Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, Inc. | http://www.marf.org |
| Max Planck Society (Germany) | http://www.mpg.de |
| Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) | http://www.multiplemyeloma.org |
| Nederlandse Organ. voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | http://www.nwo.nl |
| Neuroblastoma Society | http://www.nsoc.co.uk |
| NIH - National Cancer Institute | http://www.cancer.gov |
| North West Cancer Research Fund | http://www.cancerresearchnorthwest.co.uk |
| Oncology Nursing Society/ONS Foundation | http://www.ons.org |
| Ovarian Cancer Action | http://www.ovarian.org.uk |
| Rockefeller Foundation (US) | http://www.rockfound.org |
| Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | http://www.rcog.org.uk |
| Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum | http://www.hmaward.org.ae |
| Sigma Theta Tau International | http://www.nursingsociety.org |
| South African Medical Research Council (South Africa) | http://www.mrc.ac.za | Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Sweden) | http://www.stratresearch.se |
| Swedish Research Council (Sweden) | http://www.vr.se |
| Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland) | http://www.snf.ch |
| Tenovus - The Cancer Charity (UK) | http://www.tenovus.com |
| Wellcome Trust (UK) | http://www.wellcome.ac.uk |
| Yorkshire Cancer Research (UK) | http://www.ycr.org.uk |