Read article Latest funded awards
This page features a selection of recent awards funded by Cancer Research UK.
New investigator awards
In June 2011 Cancer Research UK awarded £12 million to ten exceptional new investigators at universities and institutes across the UK. These ten researchers are still early in their careers and many of them are setting up an independent research group for the first time. They are working in a wide range of research disciplines and looking at many different types of cancer, but have all shown the promise to become the next generation of research leaders.
Thorsten Hagemann
Queen Mary, University of London
Project title: Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) regulates innate immune function in the tumour microenvironment
David Adams
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Project title: Identification and functional validation of driver mutations in colorectal cancer
Sonia Rocha
University of Dundee
Project title: Mechanisms of inflammation and hypoxia-induced responses mediated by HIF and NF-kB in cancer
Grant Stewart
University of Birmingham
Project title: Understanding the control of cellular DNA damage responses and how defects in these pathways contribute to human disease
Julie Welburn
University of Edinburgh
Project title: Function and regulatory mechanisms of kinesin holo-complexes in mitosis
Simon Wilkinson
University of Edinburgh
Project title: TBK1 kinase addiction in KRAS-dependent non-small cell lung cancer: the role of autophagy
Yuu Kimata
University of Cambridge
Project title: Investigation of the roles for the APC/C in the cell cycle control of the centrosome activity and integrity and its spatiotemporal regulation on the centrosome
Claudio Giachino
University of Sheffield
Project title: Cell autonomous RBP-J signalling as a mediator of neural stem cell transformation and glioma initiation
Marios Georgiou
University of Nottingham
Project title: A genetic dissection of tumour progression and invasion in the context of a living epithelium
Claus Jorgensen
Institute of Cancer Research
Project title: Analysis of reciprocal tumour-stroma signalling in pancreatic cancer
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