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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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The Challenges: Professor Nic Jones on dormancy
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 …
Metabolic imaging of Kras mutant intestinal epithelium
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Multidisciplinary collaboration driving new discoveries: uncovering the role of SLC7A5 in KRAS-driven colorectal cancer
New findings from the Rosetta team have identified the antiporter SLC7A5 as a target for KRAS-driven colorectal cancer. We spoke with some of the co-authors to get their take on how a multidisciplinary team approach…
Professor Karen Vousden
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The Challenges: Professor Karen Vousden on the normal phenotypes 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 …
Don Inger, STORMing Cancer team
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STORMing Cancer's Professor Don Ingber receives prestigious Wilbur Cross Medal
Congratulations to STORMing Cancer’s Professor Don Ingber for winning Yale University’s Wilbur Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement.   Don pioneered the field of mechanobiology when he first made the link between the…
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The Challenges: Professor René Bernards on the senescence 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 …
Iain Foulkes and Ned Sharpless
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AACR Cancer Discovery In Focus: embarking on a new era of discovery
In a commentary article for AACR Cancer Discovery In Focus, Dr Iain Foulkes and Dr Ned Sharpless discuss the 9 Cancer Grand Challenges open for application from now until 22 April 2021. “Making progress in these fields…
Crystall McKall
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The Challenges: Professor Crystal Mackall on the solid tumours in children 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…
AACR Cancer Discovery news story - Rene Bernards
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AACR Cancer Discovery: Cancer Grand Challenges to fund broad, pressing research
Read the latest coverage on Cancer Grand Challenges. “There’s a lot of potential to unlock, and Cancer Grand Challenges could be the key.” - Professor René Bernards A recent piece in AACR Cancer Discovery's News in…
Professor Sir David Lane
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The Challenges: Professor Sir David Lane shares his thoughts on the macromolecules 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…