Cancer Center at Illinois
Merit-Based Research Awards & Services

Merit-Based Research Awards & Services

The Cancer Center at Illinois supports the most innovative ideas from Illinois faculty. CCIL grant programs spark transdisciplinary collaborations that develop projects from early ideas to a competitive external funding proposal. These funding opportunities foster collaborations that reach across the engineering and biology continuum. Each application is reviewed and discussed by a panel of reviewers, following a process similar to that used by NIH.

Internal Funding Initiatives

Seed Grants

Seed grants solicit interdisciplinary research proposals to initiate or enhance collaborations among CCIL members and Illinois faculty.

Bridge Grants

Bridge grants provide assistance to cancer-focused research grant proposals that are at the R01 or multi-project level mechanisms.

Planning Grants

Planning grants bring together faculty from multiple disciplines to develop collaborative ideas and programs or collect preliminary data over one year.

Collaborative Funding Initiatives

BEAT Cancer

The Breakthrough Engineering and Advanced Treatment of (BEAT) Cancer Research Initiative is a collaborative effort with the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute to drive innovative cancer treatment and care solutions by leveraging cutting-edge technologies within the scientific and medical communities.

Services

TEP Utilization Grants

TEP utilization grant support Illinois researchers by providing up to $5,000 of support using the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping Shared Resource.

High-Throughput Screening Support Grants

The CCIL partners with the High-throughput Screening Facility (HTSF) within the School of Chemical Sciences to provide funding support to researchers interested in using the facility to advance cancer research.

Support for Broad Institute’s PRISM Screening Service

With pre-approval, CCIL will reimburse members for changes incurred for PRISM screenings.