AICR’s Investigator-Initiated Research Grant Program is dedicated to funding research on cancer prevention, treatment, and survival related to modifiable lifestyle factors including diet, nutrition, body composition, and physical activity but also additional modifiable lifestyle exposures, such as sleep and stress.

Individual grants offer a maximum funding of $150,000 plus 10 percent indirect costs provided over a two-year term. A limited number of three-year term Investigator-Initiated Research Grants (maximum of $225,000 plus 10 percent indirect costs) may be funded. The three-year grants are only awarded to support the conduct of epidemiologic or intervention studies that cannot feasibly be conducted within the 2-year period.