The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) works with Brown faculty and administrators to foster support for the University’s mission of research and service.
The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) works with Brown faculty and administrators to foster support for the University’s mission of research and service.
Our team manages key institutional relationships and collaborates with corporations and foundations to advance research and other initiatives that make a positive impact on campus and in the world.
Members of Brown’s faculty and administration are invited to contact CFR for help in identifying and developing an approach to foundation and corporate funding prospects, developing proposals, coordinating campus visits, navigating the submission process, and stewarding awards.
The Samuel Waxman Institute for Aging & Cancer at the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, in partnership with the American Cancer Society (ACS), Blood Cancer United, Blood Cancer UK, and Mike & Sofia Segal Foundation, is pleased to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to enable collaborations that bring together complementary expertise to address the fundamental role of aging in cancer. Applications addressing solid tumors and/or blood cancers are encouraged. Proposals must justify the partnership through synergistic scientific aims. Awards from previous years can be found here.
The incidence of cancer and cancer-related mortality increases dramatically in individuals over the age of 50. Despite the increasingly urgent public health concern associated with this trend, the mechanisms driving the age-associated increase in cancer risk remain poorly understood. Growing evidence indicates that age-related changes in the immune system play a central role in promoting cancer development and progression.
To address these challenges, the Samuel Waxman Institute for Aging & Cancer has established a near-term goal to better understand the molecular mechanisms governing aging in epithelial, stromal, and immune cells that influence cancer initiation, growth, and resistance to therapy. Through increasing this understanding, the Institute hopes to drive the development of safer and more effective treatments and prevention strategies leading to longer, healthier lives with less cancer. Additionally, the Institute has established a long-term goal of building AI-enabled clinical algorithms to predict biological aging and cancer onset and progression.
Research supported by this program will advance our understanding of the rising incidence of cancer due to aging, with a special emphasis on the role of inflammaging and immunosenescence as common drivers of aging and cancer.
Research grants on reducing inequality fund research studies that examine programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status (e.g., LGBTQ+ youth), language minority status, or immigrant origins.
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The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context (launched in 2022) merges its long-standing program on Behavioral Economics and its special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context. This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.