DoW Lung Cancer Idea Development Award

The DoW Lung Cancer Idea Development Award supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements in eradicating deaths and suffering from lung cancer. This mechanism promotes new ideas that are in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation. Research must address at least one of the FY26 LCRP areas of emphasis. Key aspects of this opportunity include: • The award has a New Investigator category for applicants early in their faculty appointments • Preliminary data to support the feasibility of the research hypotheses and research approaches are required • The award ceiling and floor are not specified • The estimated funding for this opportunity is $6,400,000 • The opportunity is open to unrestricted applicants, subject to any clarification in the text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"