CDMRP Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program: Idea Award

The Idea Award supports innovative, untested, high-risk/potentially high-reward concepts, theories, paradigms, and/or methods in cancer research. 

Applications must address at least one of the Topic Areas listed below:

• Bladder cancer

• Blood cancers

• Brain cancer

• Colorectal cancer

• Endometrial cancer

• Esophageal cancer

• Germ cell cancers

• Head and Neck cancer

• Liver cancer

• Lymphoma

• Mesothelioma

• Metastatic cancers

• Myeloma

• Neuroblastoma

• Pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancers

• Pediatric brain tumors

• Stomach cancer

• Sarcoma

• Thyroid cancer

• Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome malignancies (excluding cancers of the kidney and pancreas)

Applications must also address at least one of the FY23 PRCRP Military Relevance Focus Areas:

• Environmental/exposure risk factors associated with cancer
• Mission readiness and Gaps in cancer research 

Investigators are strongly encouraged to collaborate, integrate, and/or align their research projects with Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research laboratories and programs.

It is expected that thirty (30) awards will be granted 

Funding: $400,000 total
Duration: 2 years

Research Authority due date: 18.5.23

Pre application (required) due date: 25.5.23
Full application due date: 12.9.23