Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Endeavor Award

New Requirement: All applications for this internal competition must be submitted via InfoReady. You can sign in using your Net-ID and your @stonybrook.edu email address. Please allow sufficient time to familiarize yourself with the portal prior to submitting your pre-application. Pre-application requirements are listed in the announcement below.

The Office for Research and Innovation invites applications for the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Endeavor Award, which supports collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Stony Brook University can submit ONE or TWO as host institution (First - any cancer type. Second - translational or clinical focused on one of four cancer types: upper GI, glioblastoma, triple-negative breast cancer, or pancreatic cancer).

Please see below for details. If you are interested in applying, you must submit a pre-application via the Endeavor Award Portal in InfoReady by Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 9 am. Pre-applications for internal review and selection must be uploaded to the portal as a single PDF document.

WHAT DOES IT FUND: These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS:

There are no restrictions on citizenship or geography.
Applicants must have an independent faculty appointment (tenure-track or equivalent) at a non-profit academic institution.
Investigators may be co-PI or collaborator on more than one proposal but may only serve as Principal Investigator on one proposal.
Investigators who are currently a co-PI on an Endeavor team are permitted to apply as co-PI or collaborator on a new application.

AWARD: $3,000,000, disbursed over a 3-year term.
SPONSOR DEADLINE: LOI due September 3, 2025

A complete pre-application should comprise of the following:

Project Description (no more than three pages, including figures and tables but excluding literature references which can be submitted on a separate page(s)) that describes: Specific aims; Introduction, background, and description of unmet need; Research plan; and Future directions – if the research plan is successful, what is the 5-10-year vision for expansion of the project?
Team Description (no more than one page) that lists the names, institutions, and titles of the PI and all co-Principal Investigators (co-PIs), plus 1-3 sentences per investigator describing their role in the project.
Biosketch for PI and all co-PIs (NIH or similar format preferred; limit 5 pages per investigator)
Collaborative Science Statement (no more than one page) describing why this project is a team science project and how you will integrate and/or share the output of the individual investigators in a way that makes the impact of the project as a whole larger than the sum of its parts, and how the team will work together.

Budget overview (no more than one page)