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16 December 2022
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Team science: 2022 highlights
Lorenzo de la Rica (@LdelaRica) is Research Portfolio Manager at Cancer Grand Challenges
In 2022, we have seen our Cancer Grand Challenges (CGC) community grow, with four new teams receiving a total of $100m funding. The teams from all…
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Lorenzo de la Rica (@LdelaRica) is Research Portfolio Manager at Cancer Grand Challenges
In 2022, we have seen our Cancer Grand Challenges (CGC) community grow, with four new teams receiving a total of $100m funding.…
16 December 2022
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In 2017, the IMAXT team was awarded £20 million by Cancer Grand Challenges, funded by Cancer Research UK.
Through the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative, a global team of experts from fields as diverse as medicine,…
1 December 2022
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We’re leading a global conversation to help shape our next round of funding, inviting the submission of ideas via our Online Ideas Portal from now until 28 November.
Here, Sheona Scales, Head of Research at Cancer…
7 November 2022
News
How a suite of advanced machine learning algorithms is finding new cancer-causing patterns of DNA damage
Cancer Grand Challenges researchers and collaborators have identified four new mutational signatures, including a…
14 October 2022
Blog
Advocacy plays a major role in Cancer Grand Challenges. The team taking on our Solid Tumours in Children challenge includes six advocates, representing the voice of children and families affected by solid cancers and…
21 September 2022
News
Today we launch Discover: a year of scientific creativity – our annual progress magazine showcasing the power of global team science.
Discover celebrates how our community is coming together, thinking differently and…
25 July 2022
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From the team taking on our Cancer Causes challenge, a new integrated atlas of the stromal and epithelial interactions that drive cancers associated with chronic inflammation provides a new way to understand cancer…
25 July 2022
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Meet the global network of early-career researchers driving the development of cancer’s most intricate maps, as part of our 3D Tumour Mapping challenge.
The tumour ecosystem, a web of interactions between the tumour’…
25 July 2022
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Non-invasive breast carcinomas have long been assumed to be the precursors of any invasive cancers that follow. But new findings, from the team taking on our Lethal vs Non-lethal challenge, indicate that around 1 in 5…
25 July 2022