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Five new teams selected to take on cancer’s toughest challenges
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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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Colorectal cancer incidence is increasing worldwide, particularly in people younger than 50 years, but the reason remains a mystery. In addition, the effectiveness of treatments inexplicably varies within the same…
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Why are certain cancer genes broadly expressed throughout the body, yet they trigger cancer in only specific tissues? New findings from the team taking on our Tissue Specificity challenge suggest that the immune system…