Canary Foundation in partnership with the American Cancer Society has created The Canary Foundation and American Cancer Society Early Detection Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program is crucial to ensuring that both the best and brightest researchers are drawn to early detection research and that institutions conducting early detection research will have the talented personnel they need.

Postdoctoral fellows are jointly selected and co-funded for $138,000 over three years to support research in the area of early cancer detection. Fellows are also invited to attend the Canary Foundation's Annual Early Detection Symposium where they are able to interact with many scientific leaders in this field.

Now in its fifth year, the Canary-ACS fellowship program has awarded 17 fellowships to postdoctoral fellows at a number of institutions across the United States. These fellows have reported great benefits of this program including a number of collaborations leading to new and accelerated research progress and an impressive number of academic publications. Dr. Jered Garrison, 2007 fellow, received an NCI award to let him transition from a mentored postdoctoral fellow to an independent faculty researcher. He said that the Canary-ACS fellowship allowed him to expand his skill set in cancer research and helped prepare him for a future as a cancer researcher.

Next round of fellowship applications will be due October 15, 2009. Please note that fellowship applications are handled through the American Cancer Society. Click here to view the Canary Foundation and American Cancer Society Early Detection Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2010 RFA due October 15, 2009.

For more information about eligibility and application process please click here.

View publications from Canary - ACS funded postdoctoral research

2009 Recipients of funding of $138,000 over three years

• Michael T. Boyne, PhD. - Washington University
   Understanding breast cancer progression in Her2/new positive tumors

• John R. Chevillet, PhD - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
   MicroRNA biomarkers for minimally invasive early detection of cancer

• Rebecca D. Dodd, PhD - Duke University Medical Center
   Determining metastasis markers using a mouse model of cancer

2008 Recipients of funding of $138,000 over three years

• David Joel Gorin, PhD - Harvard University
   DNA-Encoded Libraries for Biomarker Identification

• Christopher A. Maher, PhD - University of Michigan
   The role of noncoding RNAs in early detection of prostate cancer

• Joe Shuga, PhD - University of California Berkeley
   High Throughput Detection of Mutations as Biomarkers of Hematologic Cancer

• Robert William Sprung, PhD - Vanderbilt University
   Medical Center Proteomics of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Colon Adenomas

2007 Recipients of funding of $138,000 over three years

• Jared Garrison, PhD - University of Missouri
   Diagnostic Copper-64 Bombesin Radiopharmaceuticals for Prostate Cancer
   See 2008 Progress Report

• Pei-Lin Hsiung, PhD - Stanford University
   Development of peptide reagents for in vivo detection of dysplasia in colon
   See 2008 Progress Report

• Alexander Heifetz, PhD - Northwestern University
   Ultra-Early Detection of Cell Carcinogenesis via Partial-Wave Spectroscopy
   See 2008 Progress Report

• Sarah Arron, MD, PhD - University of California San Francisco
   Diagnosis of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Viral Signature
   See 2008 Progress Report

2006 Recipients of funding of $138,000 over three years

• Patricia Carrigan, PhD - Mayo Clinic Arizona
   Environmental Agents and the Development of Pancreatic Cancer
   See 2007 Progress Report

• Emily Chenette, PhD - Duke University
   Investigate the use of mutational status in guiding treatment of lung cancer.
   See 2007 Progress Report

• Jason Myers, PhD -Stanford University
   A Systematic and Genome-wide Analysis of Translation
   See 2007 Progress Report

2005 Recipients of funding of $138,000 over three years

• Karen Abbott, PhD - University of Georgia
   Identification of Glycoprotein Biomarkers of Breast Carcinoma
   See 2007 Progress Report
   See 2008 Progress Report

• Jonathan Liu, PhD - Stanford University
   A Miniature Dual-Axes Confocal Microscope for the Early Detection of Cancer in the Esophagus
   See 2007 Progress Report
   See 2008 Progress Report

• Christian Loch, PhD - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
   Recombinant Antibody Fragments for Colon Cancer Screening
   See 2007 Progress Report

Names in italics indicate fellows not currently active in this postdoctoral fellowship.