Career Development Program
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Career Development Program (CDP) offers you the opportunity to take part in basic, clinical or translational research to help treat leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
We'll award you with stipends so you can devote yourself to leukemia research, lymphoma research or myeloma research. We offer career development awards for various stages of your research career. Please verify in our guidelines and instructions which award is appropriate for your level of experience and apply to that category of award:
We also fund a Quality of Life Research Initiative, a component of the Career Development Program.
The CDP supports:
- fundamental basic and clinical research in genetics, molecular and cell biology, molecular pharmacology, molecular virology and immunology
- translational research directly relevant to improved treatment or diagnosis of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma and, where applicable, to prevention
Effective Award Year 2014- Program is currently closed
Apply for a grant. We will begin accepting applications for 2014 grants by July 31, 2013. Please use the "Apply" hyperlink located in the category descriptions below to be directed to proposalCENTRAL to begin an application.
- CDP Guidelines & Instructions
- Please e-mail LLS for a copy of our general policies and procedures (revised as of July 2012).
Scholar
Award: $110,000 per year for five years
Application deadline:
- Letter of intent due 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 15
- Full application due 3 p.m. ET, Oct. 1
Requirements: You must be a highly qualified investigator who's shown a capacity for independent, sustained original investigation in the field of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. You should hold an independent faculty-level or equivalent position and have obtained substantial support for your research from a national agency.
Annual renewal: Based on a noncompetitive progress report review
Scholar in Clinical Research
Award: $110,000 per year for five years
Application deadline:
- Letter of intent due 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 15
- Full application due 3 p.m. ET, Oct. 1
Requirements: You must be a highly qualified investigator who holds an independent faculty-level appointment and is conducting original, independent applied research, often involving early-stage clinical trials that will advance the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of hematologic malignancies. You're expected to have concomitant support for your research from another source or agency.
Annual renewal: Based on a noncompetitive progress report review
Special Fellow
Award: $65,000 per year for two or three years
Application deadline:
- Letter of intent due 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 15
- Full application due 3 p.m. ET, Oct. 1
Requirements: You must be a qualified investigator who's completed a minimum of two years of postdoctoral research training and is continuing your research under the research sponsor's direction. This award is meant to permit you to begin to transition to an independent research program. Please see the revised guidelines and instructions for specific eligibility criteria.
Annual renewal: Based on a noncompetitive progress report review
Special Fellow in Clinical Research (SFCR)
Award: $65,000 per year for two or three years
Application deadline:
- Letter of intent due 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 15
- Full application due 3 p.m. ET, Oct. 1
Requirements: You must be a researcher who holds a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree and has completed at least two years of clinical hematology, oncology, hematology/oncology or hematopathology training or postdoctoral research training in a clinical discipline (such as cytogenetics or molecular pathology). You must show evidence that your career focus will be on preventing, diagnosing or treating leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. Please see the revised guidelines and instructions for specific eligibility criteria.
Annual renewal: Based on a noncompetitive progress report review
Fellow
Award: $55,000 per year for three years
Application deadline:
- Letter of intent due 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 15
- Full application due 3 p.m. ET, Oct. 1 Requirements: You must be a promising investigator with less than two years of postdoctoral research training. This award encourages you to embark on an academic career involving clinical or fundamental research in, or related to, leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma under a research sponsor's direction.
Annual renewal: Based on a noncompetitive progress report review
Quality of Life Research Funding Initiative
Within the award categories above, you can also apply for the Quality of Life Research Funding Initiative, a component of the Career Development Program. See Quality of Life Research Funding Initiative for more details.
How to Apply/Deadlines
LLS uses proposalCENTRAL for electronic preliminary and full application submission.
- Before you submit your letter of intent and application, download and read CDP Guidelines and Instructions (revised as of July 2012). Please e-mail LLS for a copy of our general policies and procedures (revised as of July 2012).
- Before you apply, log in to proposalCENTRAL and register. Grants and contract officials must also register your institution.
- Submit an online letter of intent via proposalCENTRAL by 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 15.
- Submit a full online application via proposalCENTRAL by 3 p.m. ET, Oct. 1.
If you submitted a proposal and developed a profile with LLS in the past, you (and your institution) still need to complete a new profile in proposalCENTRAL. If you have any technical difficulties with proposalCENTRAL, contact their customer support team.
Need More Information?
Contact:
Director of Research Administration
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
1311 Mamaroneck Ave
White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 821-8301, (914) 821-8290
For funding rates for awards beginning July 1, 2013, email researchprograms@lls.org.
