CDMRP Pancreatic Cancer Research Program Idea Development Award

The PCARP Idea Development Award supports the development of innovative, high-risk/high reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress in improving outcomes for individuals with pancreatic cancer. Innovative ideas with the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation are the focus of this mechanism.
 

Focus Areas for the Idea Development Award

• Early detection research.

• Identification and characterization of risk.

• Supportive care, quality of life and survivorship research.

• Understanding metabolic disruptions and their systemic effects, including diabetes and cachexia.

• Understanding tumor development from precursors to metastasis.

• Biomarkers to predict therapeutic response and guide management strategies.

• New therapeutic targets and approaches

It is expected that 12 idea awards  will be granted. 

Funding: $700,000 total (Partnering Option for Early-Career Investigator $950,000)

Duration: 3 years 

Research Authority due date: 30.6.26

Pre application (required) due date: 7.7.26

Full proposal due date: 7.10.26