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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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Embedding patient advocacy within a discovery science initiative
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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A holistic approach to cancer research: bringing future research leaders together with patient advocates
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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Changing the narrative around ductal carcinoma in situ and breast cancer risk
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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Major new scientific partnership between the UK and France to tackle cancer’s toughest challenges
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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Amy Schade and Karen Cichowski
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The value of good mentorship: Amy Schade and Karen Cichowski celebrate #IWD2021
Amy Schade joined Karen Cichowski’s lab (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School) as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019. Karen is Amy’s mentor, and both are part of the Cancer Grand Challenges…
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Challenging the status quo and collaborating across disciplines in the IMAXT team #IWD2021
Flaminia Grimaldi, Sara Vogl and Laura Kütt are members of the IMAXT team, working on Theia, an immersive interface to interact with 3D tumours in VR. Their broad range of expertise – a VR artist, a designer and an…
Michele Cleary
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Michele Cleary on celebrating women in science #IWD2021
Michele Cleary is CEO of The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, co-funders of the Cancer Grand Challenges SPECIFICANCER team. For International Women’s Day 2021 and our Cancer Grand Challenges Women's Week series, we…
Barbara Rimer
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Professor Barbara Rimer on aspiring to create an inclusive world #IWD2021
Barbara Rimer is our newest member of the Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee. For International Women’s Day 2021 and as part of our Cancer Grand Challenges Women's Week series, we caught up to discuss the…
Nick and Annette Razey
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“We wanted to do everything we could to support them”: Nick and Annette Razey give £1m to back Cancer Grand Challenges team
Their donation, which rises to £1.25m with Gift Aid, will help scientists uncover secrets of the microbiome, which could lead to new colorectal cancer treatments. “I sold my company back in July, and we’re lucky to…
Charlie Swanton
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The Challenges: Professor Charlie Swanton discusses the extrachromosomal DNA challenge
In October, we posed 9 new challenges to the research community, each with the potential to change the way we think about cancer. Through our new blog series, members of our Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee…
Charlie Swanton
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The Challenges: Professor Charlie Swanton discusses the cachexia challenge
In October, we posed 9 new challenges to the research community, each with the potential to change the way we think about cancer. Through our new blog series, members of our Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee …
Ed Boyden
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News from the IMAXT team: Expansion Sequencing technology
In a new Science paper, members of the Cancer Grand Challenges IMAXT team announce ExSeq – new technology that can create nanoscale-resolution genomic maps of tumour samples by combining the expansion of biological…
Ed Harlow
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The Challenges: Ed Harlow shares his thoughts on the inflammation challenge
In October, Cancer Grand Challenges posed 9 new quests for the research community, each with the potential to contribute major advances to the way we think about and deal with the burden of cancer. Through our new blog…