Cancer's toughest challenges
In October 2017 the independent advisory panel set eight Grand Challenges opening a call to the international, multidisciplinary research community.
Three teams have now been funded, meet the teams.
Tissue Specificity
Devise approaches to prevent or treat cancer based on mechanisms that determine tissue specificity of some cancer genes
Tumour Vaccinology
Create novel tumour vaccinology approaches that establish or enhance successful immune responses beyond what is revealed by current checkpoint therapy
Treatment Regimens
Define mechanistic rules for combinatorial treatments to overcome resistance and avoid toxicity
Lethal vs non-lethal
Distinguish between lethal cancers which need treating, and non-lethal cancers that don’t
Artificial Intelligence
Detect cancer earlier by interrogating medical and non-medical data sets using machine and deep-learning
Cancer Causes
Determine the mechanisms that cause cancer without known mutagenesis, such as obesity, in order to devise novel interventions
Our role in beating cancer globally
Cancer Research UK is the largest independent funder of cancer research in the world. Find out more about how we're beating cancer sooner on a global scale
Eligibility
- Any country
- Any discipline
- Any academic institution or commercial entity
- Any career stage
Get in touch
To discuss the Grand Challenge initiative please contact
Dr Jess Sutcliffe