Cancer Research UK - Grand Challenge Awards

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 cancers
2.    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.