# Pancreatic Cancer Research Program (CDMRP)

Source: https://onco.cc/institutions/cdmrp-pcarp/  
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## TL;DR

The US defense department's pancreatic cancer research fund, created by Congress in 2020. It funds work towards prevention, earlier diagnosis and new treatments, and has made about 100 awards.

## Summary

Congress established the Pancreatic Cancer Research Program in the FY20 Department of Defense appropriation with $6 million; the CDMRP had funded pancreatic cancer research through the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program since 2011. Its mission is to promote rigorous, innovative, high-impact pancreatic cancer research that leads to prevention, earlier diagnosis, new therapeutic tools and improved outcomes. The page notes there is no screening test for the disease and that it is often found after it has spread.

The page lists congressional appropriations of $66 million for FY20 to FY24 and $20 million for FY26, and 102 awards in FY20 to FY24.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: PCARP; DoD Pancreatic Cancer Research Program
- Tags: research-funding
- City: Fort Detrick, MD, US
- Type: government
- Website: https://cdmrp.health.mil/pcarp/default

## Notes

- Appropriation totals, award counts and the fiscal-year ranges are the programme page's own figures, read on 4 November 2026; the ranges differ between programmes because each page states its own (some run to FY24, some to FY25), and they are reproduced as given rather than summed or extended.

## Sources

- Pancreatic Cancer Research Program: https://cdmrp.health.mil/pcarp/default

## Connected records

- cancers: [Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/)
- institutions: [Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)](https://onco.cc/institutions/cdmrp/), [Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (CDMRP)](https://onco.cc/institutions/cdmrp-prcrp/)
- bottlenecks: [The hardest cancers are found late](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/)

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