What Is a Consortium Grant?

What exactly is a consortium? Let us explain.

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (Rally) defines a consortium as three or more institutions (i.e., university, hospital) collaborating on a grant-supported research project.

A principal investigator from the lead institution applies with the support of at least two other collaborating institutions. The success of the project depends on the unique contributions of each collaborating institution.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Rally helps fund the most promising research initiatives through research grants including our Consortium Grant.

A Rally research grant is a financial award provided to universities, hospitals and private research institutions to support a specific research project.

Rally grants are awarded based on a competitive dual peer-review process conducted by our Medical Advisory Board, which is made up of leading childhood cancer experts.

The Rally Consortium Grant awards up to $100,000 per year for one or two years depending on how the investigator’s grant scored.

Rally funds all levels of research, from science at the bench to translational, and includes fellows, young investigators and independent investigators.

RALLY RESEARCH FOCUS

Rally research grants must address at least one of the following priority areas:

• Innovative approaches to research that could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Basic science studies that are likely to lead to a new discovery.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Personalized, targeted, alternative or integrative research proposals.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

WHY

Because kids with cancer deserve better.

Some childhood cancer treatments have been the same for more than 40 years. With your support, we are changing that. Rally-funded research has led to new and better treatments, and ultimately cures, with fewer harmful side effects.

Between 2006 and 2024, Rally awarded $35 million in childhood cancer research grants funding 597 projects at institutions around the world.

Rally’s next grants will be announced in early April 2025.