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Five new teams selected to take on cancer’s toughest challenges
Announcing five new global Cancer Grand Challenges teams. Each team will be awarded up to $25m over five years to take on cancer's toughest problems.
Today we’re excited to announce the five new global teams that have been selected to each receive up to $25m in Cancer Grand Challenges funding over five years to take on four of cancer’s toughest challenges. In March 2023, we announced…

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As we look towards announcing our new teams on 6 March, we reflect with former members of the Cancer Grand Challenges Advocacy Panel on the role the…
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Last month we held our annual Future Leaders Conference in Lisbon. As well as being a time for early career researchers from across our funded teams…
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New findings from the Cancer Grand Challenges PRECISION team this Breast Cancer Awareness Month show that breast cancer development from DCIS is a…
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Today we’re announcing a major new €10m (£8.6m) partnership between Cancer Research UK and France’s Institut National Du Cancer (INCa) to help fund…

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Today we’re excited to announce the five new global teams that have been selected to each receive up to $25m in Cancer Grand Challenges funding over five years to take on four of cancer’s toughest challenges. In March…
Blog
As we look towards announcing our new teams on 6 March, we reflect with former members of the Cancer Grand Challenges Advocacy Panel on the role the panel plays in ensuring that the voice of people affected by cancer is…
Blog
Last month we held our annual Future Leaders Conference in Lisbon. As well as being a time for early career researchers from across our funded teams to come together, network and share their scientific findings, this…
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New findings from the Cancer Grand Challenges PRECISION team this Breast Cancer Awareness Month show that breast cancer development from DCIS is a rare event and emphasise the urgent need for accurate prognostic markers…
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Today we’re announcing a major new €10m (£8.6m) partnership between Cancer Research UK and France’s Institut National Du Cancer (INCa) to help fund world-class researchers to take on cancer’s toughest challenges through…
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Today, we are excited to reveal the 12 shortlisted teams who are in with a chance of securing up to $25m in Cancer Grand Challenges funding to make radical progress against some of cancer’s toughest challenges.  In…
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New research from the Cancer Grand Challenges Rosetta team shows that metabolic profiling using a variety of mass spectrometry techniques can be used to stratify tissues according to their underlying mutations in…
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We are pleased to welcome Dr Tom Misteli of the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Cancer Research, USA, to the Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee. Tom will join the other 14 members of the Scientific…
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We are pleased to welcome seven new members to the Cancer Grand Challenges Advocacy Panel: Yelak Biru, Ivana Cattaneo, Anjee Davies, Joya Harris, Dirk Hellrung, Chris Stewart and Christine Wu. From helping to shape…