The ACS Research Professor Grants are primarily honorific awards for individuals who have made seminal contributions in cancer research and/or seminal contributions in areas of clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy, or epidemiologic cancer research. The unrestricted award supports unique research opportunities to foster creativity and innovation in cancer research. Professor Awards provide flexible funding for individuals who are expected to continue to make contributions that will change the direction of cancer or cancer research. Applicants must be at the rank of full professor and have made, and will likely continue to make, impactful contributions to change the direction of cancer research. These notable cancer research achievements could have been fundamental, preclinical, clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy and/or epidemiologic in focus. Commitment and success in scientific mentoring and leadership as well as community engagement are also carefully considered. The award of up to $80,000 per year for 5 years can be budgeted at the applicant's discretion to support creative and innovative pursuits in cancer research. ACS Professors are expected to be spokespeople for ACS and for cancer research in general. Interested applicants must first submit a letter of intent (LOI) available from June 1 to September 1. If an LOI is approved, full applications must be submitted by December 1. Applicants must provide the list the name, title, and current institution and department of five individuals from whom they have requested letters of recommendation. Two letters must be from mentees, ideally one current and one former. Five total letters are required. Applicants may also include up to an additional two letters from individuals in the non-scientific community who could speak to contributions in outreach, engagement and/or advocacy. Please visit the award's website or contact the American Cancer Society, Inc. for more information.