Funding for Medical Research
and Clinical Trials

All Areas of Cancer
St. Baldrick's Foundation
Type of Organization: Foundation
Email Address: Grants@StBaldricks.org
Funds Available for Clinical Trials: ✗ Research: ✔

Funding Details

Requirements: These grants are for specific two-year research projects which are hypothesis driven and
may be either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological in nature. Please submit a realistic
budget for the project. Grants will be $100,000/year or less.
• Research Grants 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

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
 Complementary and alternative therapies
 Ewing sarcoma
 Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
 Rhabdoid tumors
• 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.
• Co-Investigators/Co-Primary Investigators are allowed on Research Grants. The
LOI/application is required to be submitted under one lead Primary Investigator.
2024 St. Baldrick’s Foundation Research Grant Award
St. Baldrick’s Foundation 1333 South Mayflower Ave., Suite 400 Monrovia CA 91016
Ph. (626) 792-8247 Grants@StBaldricks.org
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• 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.
• 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 applicant’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.
• Research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to pediatric
cancer. They may be in any discipline of basic, clinical, translational, or
epidemiological research.
• Research Grant applicants should hold at least an M.D./D.O. or Ph.D. degree by
the date the award becomes effective.
• 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

Other info: These grants are for specific research projects that are hypothesis-driven and may be either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological. The grant will be $100,000/year for two years.