A Breath of Hope's 2026 Peg's Fight for Life Award LOI

Letter of Intent Form

2026 Peg's Fight for Life Research Award - $150,000
Please enter your name and email address, and answer the following questions to start the application process for the 2026 Peg's Fight for Life Award. Once you submit your letter of intent, a team of researchers will review it. Up to 15 early career investigators will be invited to submit a full application. This LOI form is due by June 30, 2026.

If your proposal is chosen to move forward, you will receive an emailed invitation by July 14 to submit a full proposal. Full proposals will be due by Aug. 25, 2026, with a final winner announced on November 16, 2026.

To review the 2026 RFP and topic preferences for this $150,000 award, please visit: https://abreathofhope.org/2026-funding-opportunities/

If you do not see an email following this initial submission, please check your junk and spam folders.

Thank you for your interest in improving lung cancer survival!
Name

First NameLast Name
Email
example@example.com
Phone Number

Area CodePhone Number
What is the name of your employer - must be a U.S. university or research center.
Employer
What degrees do you hold?
Degrees
Are you in your first ten years following medical or graduate school? Have you secured a supervisor, primary mentor at your institution, or a secondary mentor with lung cancer focus at any institution?
Early Career
Are you able to spend at least 40% of your time in lung cancer research during the two year award period?
If your project involves people or animals, have you received approval from your institution's review board?
People or animals?
Provide your research focus area and potential impact in lung cancer survival. We prefer to fund translational research that is tied to oncogene-driven lung cancer. Preferred topics are listed in the RFP found at https://abreathofhope.org/lung-cancer-research/.

Research focus and impact0/1000
Please describe your hypothesis and specific aims (how will your work add to the existing body of knowledge and improve survival) - 2000 words or less.

Hypothesis0/2000
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Letter of Intent Form