The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Career Development Program (CDP) supports scientists studying basic, translational, or clinical research to help understand and treat hematologic malignancies and relevant premalignant conditions.
The program welcomes applications worldwide from appropriate non-profit academic institutions and investigators of any nationality. Non-citizens and non-residents are eligible.
CDP applicants must have a research focus on hematological malignancies and relevant premalignant conditions. We are interested in all research studies on any of these subjects. The research may have a basic mechanistic focus to better understand these diseases or may be preclinical/clinical studies using any approach with the goal of achieving better therapeutic outcomes.
Award Categories:
Scholar. These 5-year, $120,000/year awards support emerging leaders in the blood cancer research field. You must be a highly qualified, early/mid-career laboratory-based investigator who has an impactful and innovative research program focused on hematologic malignancies and/or relevant premalignant conditions. You must hold an independent, tenure-track, faculty-level position and should have substantial research support from a national agency.
Scholar in Clinical Research. These 5-year, $125,000/year awards support highly qualified clinical investigators who hold an independent faculty-level appointment and are conducting independent applied research that will advance the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of hematologic malignancies and/or relevant premalignant conditions. The research must involve patients and be related to your overall clinical activities. You must have substantial support for your research from another source.
Special Fellow. These 2 or 3 year, $75,000/year awards support highly qualified, mentored postdoctoral fellows and instructors who have 3-5 years of postdoctoral research training (as of the award start date) and are continuing a research program of direct relevance to hematological malignancies and/or relevant premalignant conditions. In addition, your Sponsor must have the appropriate experience to mentor you as you engage in blood cancer research. This award provides you with the opportunity to continue building a research program that will make you competitive for an independent position by the end of the award funding period.
Fellow. These 3-year, $70,000/year awards support top performing, mentored postdoctoral fellows and instructors who are training for a career in hematological malignancy research and/or treatment and who have up to 3 years of postdoctoral research training (as of the award start date). Your Sponsor must have the appropriate experience to mentor you as you engage in blood cancer research.
Application Process:
The application process has three phases. The first phase is submission and consideration of eligibility. All eligible applicants will be invited to proceed to the Letter of Intent and Full Application phases. All submissions must be made through the LLS Research Portal.
Please visit our website, https://www.lls.org/research/apply-career-development-program-cdp for how to apply. Detailed instructions for each award category are found in the CDP Guidelines and Instructions.
For questions, please contact researchprograms@lls.org.