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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 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. The program supports assistant professors of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of a cure for cancer. Stony Brook University can nominate ONE candidate for the 2026 funding cycle.

Please see below for details. If you are interested in applying, you must submit a pre-application via the Pew-Stewart Scholars Portal in InfoReady by Monday, April 28, 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: Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and pioneering approaches to basic and translational cancer research. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles but who bring in concepts and theories from other fields are encouraged to apply. Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. 

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS: 

    • Candidates must have been awarded a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine or a related field.
    • As of Aug. 27, 2025, nominees must be running an independent lab and hold full-time appointments at the rank of assistant professor or equivalent. Appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible.
    • Candidates must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 11, 2021. Time spent in clinical internships, residencies, in work toward board certification, or on parental or medical leave does not count as part of this four-year limit. Candidates who need an eligibility extension due to leave or other reasons should contact Pew's program office.
    • Candidates may apply two times in total.
    • Candidates should be conducting creative, interdisciplinary, basic or translational cancer research. This program is not designed to fund clinical trial research.
    • Candidates may not be nominated for the Pew Scholars Program and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research in the same year.

AWARD: $75,000 per year for a four-year period

SPONSOR DEADLINE: Nomination due May 14, 2025. Application due August 27, 2025.

A complete pre-application should comprise of the following:

    • Research project summary (2 pages)
    • Curriculum vitae
    • Letter of support from department chair