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Daring to think differently

Uniting the world’s brightest minds against cancer’s toughest challenges.

Uniting the world’s brightest minds against cancer’s toughest challenges

We will drive progress against cancer by empowering a global research community to come together, think differently and take on some of cancer’s toughest challenges.

Collaboration and community

Hear from members of our Cancer Grand Challenges community and how they're daring to think differently to drive progress against tough challenges

OPTIMISTICC's Wendy Garrett

Two years in: collaborating to advance our understanding of the microbiome

New thinking on the process of ageing

New findings challenge the current theory of ageing and age-related illnesses

The 2021 shortlist in numbers

A growing global community daring to think differently

The scientific committee

Committee members take a break from reviewing applications to discuss the power of uniting across geography and discipline

The toughest challenge

These are the obstacles that continue to impede progress and no one scientist, institution or country will be able to solve them alone. Cancer Grand Challenges teams are empowered to rise above the traditional boundaries of geography and discipline to ultimately change outcomes for people with cancer.

Meet the teams taking them on.

Cachexia

Solid Tumours in Children

Normal Phenotypes

Extrachromosomal DNA

Cancer causes

3D tumour mapping (II)

Unusual mutation patterns

Microbiota

3D tumour mapping (I)

Tissue specificity

Lethal versus non-lethal