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24 February 2021
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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
Nick and Annette Razey
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 have made some money,”…
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17 February 2021
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…
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3 February 2021
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…
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29 January 2021
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…
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25 January 2021
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…

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Bowel cancer cell, CRUK LRI Experimental Histopathology Unit
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OPTIMISTICC: New connection drives poor outcomes in bowel cancer
Up to 45% of bowel cancers carry a fault in the KRAS gene, detrimentally affecting how a patient will respond to treatment. New results from the OPTIMISTICC team suggest these poor outcomes may be due to the way faulty…
20 October 2020
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Catalysing new thinking on the development of cancer
Some carcinogens can cause cancer without directly damaging DNA: a new study from the Cancer Grand Challenges Mutographs team challenges a long-held view on the early development of a tumour. For years, research has…
13 October 2020
Barbara Rimer and Jill P. Mesirov
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New Scientific Committee members announced
The Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee is pleased to welcome two new members: Professor Jill P Mesirov (University of California San Diego School of Medicine) and Professor Barbara K Rimer (University of North…
11 October 2020