This analysis forms part of our audited accounts. See note 6 on page 89 of our annual report and accounts.
2025/26 | 2024/25 | |||
Host institution | Financial accounting | Time apportioned* | Financial accounting | Time apportioned* |
The Francis Crick Institute | £69,374,302 | £64,399,417 | £64,782,252 | £65,463,687 |
University of Cambridge | £44,266,691 | £52,889,342 | £63,395,102 | £48,868,656 |
University of Manchester | £33,402,883 | £26,395,533 | £27,681,730 | £26,199,094 |
University College London | £29,136,886 | £28,845,066 | £29,379,769 | £26,313,045 |
University of Oxford | £21,950,125 | £17,709,012 | £21,392,000 | £18,890,773 |
Institute of Cancer Research, London | £20,139,300 | £16,947,764 | £18,832,698 | £16,659,304 |
Queen Mary University of London | £6,600,095 | £6,362,563 | £7,541,406 | £6,017,973 |
Imperial College London | £6,565,065 | £6,739,634 | £4,620,753 | £6,322,038 |
University of Edinburgh | £6,147,979 | £6,806,950 | £6,551,486 | £6,303,034 |
University of Birmingham | £6,107,953 | £6,951,940 | £5,879,822 | £7,437,518 |
Newcastle University | £5,867,731 | £6,477,407 | £6,635,117 | £5,940,763 |
President and Fellows of Harvard College | £5,253,720 | £277,790 | £134,809 | £351,553 |
University of Glasgow | £4,208,694 | £7,173,142 | £5,439,654 | £8,262,322 |
King's College London | £3,815,671 | £4,097,622 | £1,889,071 | £3,955,940 |
Cardiff University | £3,578,395 | £2,313,440 | £996,733 | £2,849,608 |
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute | £2,800,000 | - | - | - |
Queen's University Belfast | £2,471,900 | £977,561 | £553,715 | £872,920 |
University of Southampton | £2,177,783 | £3,508,328 | £3,111,777 | £3,994,002 |
University of Dundee | £2,170,139 | £1,281,792 | £21,168 | £1,542,421 |
American Friends of Cancer Research, Inc. | £1,801,089 | £1,710,714 | £540,052 | £911,019 |
Institute of Child Health and University College London | £1,575,888 | £214,857 | - | £125,007 |
Stanford University | £1,555,042 | £1,350,288 | £1,232,937 | £1,833,521 |
Wellcome Sanger Institute | £1,455,263 | £1,931,876 | £2,607,513 | £1,223,792 |
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | £1,310,716 | £843,247 | £169,202 | £958,101 |
University of California San Francisco | £1,214,214 | £1,253,344 | £873,004 | £1,489,380 |
University of Leeds | £1,183,992 | £2,733,734 | £3,333,663 | £3,099,409 |
University of Leicester | £1,040,249 | £884,474 | £908,501 | £933,326 |
Royal Marsden Hospital | £1,000,000 | - | - | - |
Other institutions | £28,229,537 | £32,342,367 | £28,503,211 | £33,841,745 |
£316,401,302 | £303,419,204 | £ 307,007,145 | £ 300,659,951 | |
* ‘Time apportioned’ refers to how grant-funded activities and associated costs are distributed over the duration of the research grant. Costs such as equipment, travel, consumables and subcontracting are allocated to the specific periods in which the activities occur. For example, if a two-year research grant includes £100,000 for equipment that’s required at the beginning of the project, that expenditure is fully apportioned to year one. This supports effective budget monitoring and compliance with funder expectations.
Some of the scientists who serve on our grant-making committees also lead research projects that received funding from us in 2025/26. See note 30 on page 117 of our annual report and accounts.
Institution | Grantee name | Number of grantees |
Imperial College London | Amanda Cross, Iain McNeish, Hashim Ahmed, Sam Au | 4 |
Institute of Cancer Research, London | Emma Hall*, Kamil Kranc* | 2 |
International Agency for Research on Cancer | Paul Brennan | 1 |
King's College London | Sheeba Irshad | 1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Michael Birnbaum | 1 |
Newcastle University | Steve Wedge*, Alastair Greystoke | 2 |
Queen Mary University of London | Peter Sasieni | 1 |
Queen's University Belfast | Victoria Coyle | 1 |
University College London | Sergio Quezada, Mariam Jamal-Hanjani, John Moppett, Maria Hawkins, Ruth Langley | 5 |
University of Birmingham | Mark Bishton, Amanda Rossiter | 2 |
University of California San Diego | Ludmil Alexandrov | 1 |
University of Cambridge | Masashi Narita, Bristi Basu, Serena Nik-Zainal, Walid Khaled | 4 |
University of Dundee | Alessio Ciulli | 1 |
University of Edinburgh | Charlie Gourley | 1 |
University of Glasgow | Seth Coffelt, Richard Wilson, Victoria Coyle | 3 |
University of Leeds | Sarah Brown, Ann Henry, David Sebag-Montefiore | 3 |
University of Leicester | Karen Brown, Harriet Walter | 2 |
University of Manchester | Caroline Dive*, Paul Lorigan, Natalie Cook, Lorna McWilliams* | 4 |
University of Oxford | Sarah Blagden*, Brian Nicholson, Carolyn Taylor | 3 |
University of Southampton | Andrew Davies | 1 |
University of York | Alexandra Smith | 1 |
Wellcome Sanger Institute | Jyoti Nangalia | 1 |
Yale University | Roel Verhaak | 1 |
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*Scientists who lead projects that received grant awards in excess of £1m this year
