CPRIT Scholar

CPRIT's Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Members award brings exceptional early-stage cancer researchers to universities and cancer research institutions in Texas for their first tenure-track position. It provides start-up funding of up to $2,000,000 in total costs over five years (indirect costs up to 5%) so that newly independent investigators can build research programs and generate preliminary data for future independent grants; the funds cannot pay the PI's salary or construct or renovate laboratory space, and the recruiting institution must commit additional support equal

CPRIT's Recruitment of Rising Stars award recruits outstanding mid-stage investigators to academic institutions in Texas who have shown extraordinary accomplishment in their first years of independent research and promise continued, enhanced contributions to cancer research. CPRIT encourages PIs new to cancer research who propose creative hypotheses, investigators with high-impact basic science programmes that could be translated toward clinical investigation, researchers developing methods in the life, population-based, physical, engineering or computational sciences for unsolved problems in