The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.

It started with a friendly dare: would you shave your head to raise money for kids’ cancer research? What happened next would change the world. This bold act of baldness has gained major momentum, since its start in 2000. Today, we have more than 1,000 head-shaving events taking place around the world at pubs, restaurants, schools, churches, parks, firehouses, military bases – you name it. It is our constituents’ way of changing the world, in a meaningful way. Volunteers also raise funds through athletic challenges, livestream fundraisers and many other activities. Since the Foundation's first grants as an independent charity in 2005, St. Baldrick's has invested more than $352 million in childhood cancer research grants worldwide. It’s about collaboration. It’s about powerful ideas, big and small. It’s about never giving up until we have cures for all kids with cancers.

For more information, please visit StBaldricks.org. You can also search current and past grants at StBaldricks.org/grants.

FUNDING HIGHLIGHTS

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation works hard to be sure that every dollar makes the biggest impact possible in childhood cancer research. The Foundation is proud to have received the National Cancer Institute Peer Review Funder designation for selection of grants. The Foundation has held several Research Priorities Summits with many of the country’s leading pediatric oncology researchers participating to advise the staff and board of directors on funding priorities. The St. Baldrick’s team and scientific advisors meet regularly to be sure St. Baldrick’s funds make the greatest impact on pediatric cancer research.

Current funding priorities are divided into four categories:

• New discovery research

• Translational research and early phase clinical trials

• Phase III clinical trials & infrastructure support of participating institutions (primarily the fall grant cycle)

• Education of new pediatric oncology researchers

In addition to research to understand the biology of childhood cancers and discover leads to more effective treatments, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Adolescents & young adults

• Survivorship, outcomes, and quality of life

• Supportive care

• Epidemiology and pediatric cancer predispositions

• Precision medicine

• Alternative & complementary therapies

FUNDING CYCLES

Spring Grant Cycle

Spring cycle grants are funded based on scientific review.

The following programs/categories are available in the Spring Cycle:

• St. Baldrick’s Scholars

• St. Baldrick’s International Scholars

• Research Grants

St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellows (no LOI, applications due February)

Fall Grant Cycle

Fellows are funded based on scientific review. Infrastructure grants are funded based on need, expected outcomes, and local St. Baldrick’s participation, with a strong priority on geographic areas with no other St. Baldrick’s funding.

The following programs/categories are available in the Fall Cycle:

• Infrastructure Grants

• St. Baldrick’s Fellows

Grants will be made according to revenues available.

Specialties

Adolescent Medicine

Clinical Trials

Healthcare Delivery

Nuclear Medicine

Pediatrics

Public Health

Cancer

Genetics & Genomics

Immunology

Oncology

Pharmacology

Eligibility Requirements

The Scholar (Career Development) Award is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. Recipients are called St. Baldrick’s Scholars. Grants will be up to $110,000/year, for three years.

• Scholar Awards are one of many funding categories offered by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation; it is possible for a program/institution to receive funding in more than one category. With the exception noted immediately below, each program/institution may submit one LOI/application in all open St. Baldrick’s funding categories.

2025 St. Baldrick's Spring Cycle LOI/application submissions allowed by program/category per institution

Program/category

Research Grant 1

Scholar (CDA) 1

International Scholar 1

Limited submission policy exception1

If an institution submitted the total number of LOI/applications allowed, this would be 4 submissions total

*See details below for areas of interest that qualify for the one additional exception submission in one category of choice

• ATTENTION: limited submissions policy exception: Due to high interest from donors and low numbers of past applications, an additional LOI/application will be accepted only if focused on one of the following. This is one additional LOI/application overall for the cycle, not one additional LOI/application per program/category.

 Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and glioblastoma (GBM)

 Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic

 Ewing sarcoma

 Rhabdoid tumors - Extrarenal

• During each grant cycle, an applicant can only apply once as the lead Principal Investigator. This restriction applies also to the above described limited submissions policy exception.

• Institutions must be located in the United States.

• Applicants need not be American citizens; however, they must work at an academic, medical, or research institution within the United States.

• Applicants from the NCI/NIH are not eligible to apply for St. Baldrick’s Scholar Awards.

• A program/institution is defined as an entity essentially operating under one management.

o Any questions or questionable situations will be reviewed by a subset of the Scientific Advisory Board of St. Baldrick’s. Questions can be emailed to Grants@Stbaldricks.org, please include a copy of the potential Scholar’s biosketch.

• Institutions that are actively involved in (sponsor, promote, or participate in) non-St. Baldrick’s head-shaving fundraising events are not eligible to apply for St. Baldrick’s funding.

o St. Baldrick’s understands that hospitals and their fundraising agents and organizations cannot control what their many volunteers do. Some may undertake head-shaving fundraisers that hospital/agent/organization is not aware of and does not sanction or promote. These activities would not prevent the hospital’s researchers from applying for St. Baldrick’s grants.

o The following applies to hospitals, their fundraising agents and organizations as institutions. Researchers from hospitals would be ineligible to apply for St. Baldrick’s grants if the hospital/agent/organization promotes (advertises, emails, blogs, media stories, social media posts, shares, reshares, likes, tweets, re-tweets or hosts web pages) a non-St. Baldrick’s head-shaving fundraiser through any type of marketing, advertising, outreach or public-facing collateral or ancillary materials, or on any channel (television, radio, print, social media, website, etc.), using any content that sponsors, highlights, advocates or recommends a head-shaving event other than St. Baldrick’s.

• St. Baldrick’s funds may not be used for human embryonic stem cell research.

• All awards will be payable to the academic institution, non-profit research institution, or laboratory to administer for the purposes of this grant only.

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for funding without regard to race, color, ethnicity/national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, belief and spirituality, age disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

• Applicants should hold a Ph.D., M.D., or D.O. degree in a field of research specialty by the date the award becomes effective.

• Applicants must be employed by an academic or non-profit research institution or laboratory.

• Applicants must currently hold (for no longer than 7 years at the time the award begins), or will hold by start of the award, a title that is considered by the institution to be a full-time, faculty position.

o Faculty position should not depend upon the awarding of this Scholar grant.

o Situations may occur where the institutions definition of “faculty” may differ from the Foundation’s definition, this should be fully explained in the Scholar Applicant Checklist (required at LOI stage).

• This is an early-career award. The Scholar award is intended to develop the independent pediatric cancer research careers of highly qualified investigators, not to support well established or senior investigators.

• Scholars may receive funding from other sources to support their research. However, no other comparable or higher (monetary value) career development award may be held prior to or at the time the award begins. Scientific or budgetary overlap with other funded projects is not allowed.

o In the event of comparable or higher (monetary value) career development funding after the LOI has been approved, the Scholar must give up the remainder of their St. Baldrick’s award, unless otherwise approved by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

• Applicants holding or awarded R01s at the time of the LOI are not eligible to apply. Applicants cannot hold a NIH K-award at the time that they apply (institutional K12 funding is allowable). See “Conditions of Award” below regarding other awards received after the LOI is approved.

• Applicants must have an appropriate Sponsor who provides supervision, facilities, and research support. If appropriate for the project, applicants may have more than one (1) Sponsor.

• Research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to pediatric cancer. They may be in any discipline of basic, clinical, translational, or epidemiological research.

• This award is granted for three years with an opportunity to apply for an additional two years of funding based upon the demonstration of significant accomplishment. (Years 4–5, if funded, will be up to $115,000/year).

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: St. Baldrick's Foundation

Address: 1333 South Mayflower Avenue, Suite 400 Monrovia, CA 91016 USA (888) 899‑2253 · sbinfo@stbaldricks.org

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View Funding Opportunity

Award

Letter Of Intent Deadline:

Dec 09, 2024

Final Deadline:

Feb 28, 2025

Funding Amount:

$110,000

Host Details

Affiliation: St. Baldrick's Foundation

Address: 1333 South Mayflower Avenue, Suite 400 Monrovia, CA 91016 USA (888) 899‑2253 · sbinfo@stbaldricks.org

Website URL: https://www.stbaldricks.org/for-researchers

Disclaimer:It is mandatory that all applicants carry workplace liability insurance, e.g., https://www.protrip-world-liability.com (Erasmus students use this package and typically costs around 5 € per month - please check) in addition to health insurance when you join any of the onsite Trialect partnered fellowships.

Questions and Answers

Commonly asked questions about this funding opportunity from the host and other attendees.

How do I apply?

Grant letters of intent (LOIs) and applications may be submitted online only through ProposalCentral. Please review this document for guidance on creating a new ProposalCentral account if you do not have one. Spring Grant Schedule* Open for LOI’s – October Deadline for LOI’s – December LOI Decisions – December Full Application Deadline – February Award Begins – July 1 Fall Grant Schedule* Open for LOI’s– May Deadline for LOI’s– early July LOI Decisions – August Full Application Deadline – late August/early September Award Begins – December 1 or January 1 (Infrastructure), July 1 (Fellowship)

Where can I find the LOI instructions?

LOI Instructions are available under templates when you start the LOI in ProposalCentral. These instructions are also available at the links above.

I am on ProposalCentral and I do not see any applications open.

Applications are posted on ProposalCentral twice a year for the Spring and Fall grant cycles. Spring grant applications are generally available on ProposalCentral in October. Fall grant applications are generally available on ProposalCentral in May. To be notified when applications are available online and when they are due, contact Grants@StBaldricks.org and ask to be placed on the notification list.

I am trying to submit my application and the system will not allow me to submit

There are two main reasons you may not be able to submit your application. The application needs to be Validated. “Validate” checks for required items and attachments, and you will not be able to submit if required items and/or attachments are missing. Once you have successfully validated your application, you should be able to submit. The deadline has passed. Pending applications can be viewed and edited even after the deadline has passed; however, applications cannot be submitted. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure and to verify that the online proposal is received before 5:00 p.m. EASTERN TIME by the deadline date.

I am submitting an application on behalf of a researcher. Do I apply using my ProposalCentral account?

The Principal Investigator must start the LOI or Application. However once a proposal is begun, access for application submittal can be given to other users, such as collaborators, assistants or grants and contracts staff. More information is available here.

I am trying to submit our LOI/application and realized the institution’s contact information is wrong in Proposal Central. Can you update this?

Unfortunately St. Baldrick’s is unable to access and edit institutional profiles in ProposalCentral. Institutions are registered on ProposalCentral by institution officials, who have the ability to log-in and update the information associated with that institution (here is more information on registering an institution).

How do I know my application was successfully submitted?

The ProposalCentral system will email a confirmation that the application was submitted. Once your application is submitted you may view it by logging-in and accessing the “Submitted” link under the “Manage Proposals” tab.

How will I be notified that my proposal was awarded?

St. Baldrick’s will contact you via email through the ProposalCentral system or by phone, to let you know of the final funding decision. Spring Cycle grants are notified before June 30th, Fall Cycle Infrastructure grants are notified in October, and Fall Fellowship grants are notified by March. Notifications might be by phone; be sure to include the best number to reach the PI directly, in your profile on ProposalCentral.