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Cancer Biology Research

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

93.396

Program objective

To provide fundamental information on the cause and nature of cancer in people, with the expectation that this will result in better methods of prevention, detection and diagnosis, and treatment of neoplastic diseases. Cancer Biology Research includes the following research programs: cancer cell biology; cancer immunology, hematology and etiology; DNA and chromosomal aberrations; tumor biology and metastasis; and structural biology and molecular applications.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    It is estimated that 1,387 total awards will be made in FY2016. In FY2016, 340 competing RPG awards were made, which were 11.3% of the applications received. In FY2016, 10 competing SBIT/STTR awards were made, which were 7.4% of the applications received.

  2. 2017

    In FY2017, the estimated total awards to be made are 324.

  3. 2018

    In FY2018, the estimated total awards to be made are 320.

  4. 2019

    In FY2019, the actual total awards made were 371.

  5. 2020

    In FY2020, the actual total awards made was 422.

  6. 2021

    In FY2021, total awards made were 397.

  7. 2022

    In FY2022, the actual total awards made were 383.

  8. 2023

    In FY2023, the actual total awards made were 390.

  9. 2024

    In FY2024, the estimated total awards to be made are 1,846.

  10. 2025

    In FY2025, the estimated total awards to be made are 2,041.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

42 CFR 52; 45 CFR 75; Grants will be available under the authority of and administered in accordance with the PHS Grants Policy Statement and Federal regulations at 42 CFR 52 and 42 U.S.C. 241; Omnibus Solicitation of the Public Health Service for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant and Cooperative Agreement Applications. Omnibus Solicitation of the National Institutes of Health for Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grant Applications.

  1. Public Health Service Act, Section 301, 410, and 411, Public Law 78-410, 42 U.S.C. 241, as amended; Public Law 100-607, 42 U.S.C. 285 and 285a; Small Business Research and Development Enhancement, Act of 1992, as amended, Public Law 102-564.