Cancer Research UK has announced its Grand Challenge Award Scheme that will provide £20m to accelerate research. These awards for
ambitious cancer research grants of interdisciplinary teams, and the global
scientific community. Investigators (principal or co-investigators can be
outside the UK), but the teams must have a strong UK component with at
least 25% of the grant spent in the UK. Commercial collaboration is
encouraged.
Expressions
of interest must be received
by 12 February 2016.
Intending participants should consider
the Faculty alliance partners such as MIPS, University of Newcastle and Warwick
University, in addition to your natural collaborative networks.
Challenges:
1. Develop
vaccines to prevent non-viral cancers2. Eradicate EBV-induced cancers from the world
3. Discover how unusual patterns of mutation are induced by different cancer-causing events
4. Distinguish between lethal cancers that need treating, and non-lethal cancers that don’t
5. Find a way of mapping tumours at the molecular and cellular level
6. Develop innovative approaches to target the cancer super-controller MYC
7. Deliver biologically active macromolecules to any and all cells in the body
Information on eligibility and
instructions on how to apply are available here.
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