Welcome to the 2026 ACPMP ChangeMaker Grant Submission Site

Purpose:
The ACPMP Research Foundation Changemaker Grant Program is intended to support scientific, clinical, or translational research studies—focused on appendix cancer or pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) of appendiceal origin—with the highest potential to ultimately impact patients or change our knowledge in appendiceal cancers to provide answers about this rare disease that will help to advance treatments for appendiceal cancer patients. Proposals are strongly encouraged in, but not limited, to the ACPMP Research Foundation Think Tank core research priority areas of: Refining appendix tumor histology and histopathologic classification , Defining the appendix tumor microenvironment, Molecular characterization of appendix tumors and targets, Conducting prospective investigations and trials , Understanding appendix cancer on a population level, Developing disease-specific models and a model repository.