American Cancer Society (ACS) - Postdoctoral Fellowships

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DeadlineJune 1 and December 1

Award amountStipends of $66,000, $68,000, and $70,000 per year

Last checkedJun 24, 2026

Application

Extramural Discovery Science (EDS) Accelerator Award

Official application page for the American Cancer Society's EDS Accelerator Award, which supports the commercialization of ongoing cancer research projects.

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Deadline

Rolling basis

Award amount

Up to $75,000 total costs

Eligibility

Independent investigator with a full-time faculty appointment (or equivalent) at an eligible US institution; Motivated to commercialize their technology; Applicants may be at any career stage

Requirements

Must be an ongoing cancer research project; Proposal must be commercially driven with a plan to license the technology; Must address key experiments to move findings toward commercialization

Application materials

Application available on ProposalCentral; EDS Accelerator Award Instructions

How to apply

Submit application through ProposalCentral; Applicants have 60 days from starting the application to submit it

Important dates

Applications submitted through June 1 are reviewed in July; Applications submitted after June 1 are reviewed in December; Grants start in October (July review) or the following April (December review)

Documents

EDS Accelerator Award Policies; EDS Accelerator Award Instructions

Contact

Doug Hurst, PhD at doug.hurst@cancer.org

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