# Ignite Award

**Funder:** Cancer Research Institute
**Budget:** Up to $1.05M across two conditional phases
**Deadline:** 1 February 2027 (Application: 1 February 2027, 23:59 Eastern Time.)
**Duration:** Up to 2 years mentored, then up to 3 years independent
**Consortium:** No - individual applicant
**Frequency:** Annual
**Official call:** https://www.cancerresearch.org/ignite
**Last updated:** 18 Oct 2026

## Eligibility & scope

Applicants must be mentored postdoctoral researchers when applying. Applicants must never have held an independent faculty or equivalent position. Cancer immunotherapy research; at most five postdoctoral years unless CRI approves an exception; at least twelve mentored months before transition.

## Summary

CRI IGNITE supports a mentored-to-independent research transition. The second phase depends on an eligible faculty appointment and adequate institutional start-up support.

## Who should apply

- Check entry-role restrictions and experience exceptions with CRI.

## Key dates

- Apply by 1 February 2027, 23:59 Eastern Time.

## Tips for applicants

- Phase 1: up to $150,000 annually for two years. Phase 2: up to $250,000 annually for three years; transition is conditional.

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