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Discovery Research Committee awards

Explore our recently funded awardees from 2024 – 2025 and learn more about how we make funding decisions.

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Discovery Programme Awards

November 2024

Gene-environment initiated disease progression in myeloproliferative neoplasm

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Professor Adam Mead

University of Oxford

Targeting the stem-like maintenance programme of Treg cells to reverse immune suppression and immunotherapy resistance in cancer

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Professor Rahul Raychaudhuri

University of Cambridge

Advancing MRI biomarkers of the tumour microenvironment for patient benefit

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Professor Simon Robinson

Institute of Cancer Research

Outcompeting oncogenesis: oesophageal cancer prevention by manipulating mutant fitness

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Professor Philip Jones

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Nascent DNA strand maturation in human cells and its targeting by inhibitors of poly(ADP-Ribose) metabolism

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Professor Keith Caldecott

University of Sussex

PI3K in cancer biology and therapy

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Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck

University College London

The role of RNA structure and modification in cancer

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Professor Eric Miska

University of Cambridge

Discovery Programme Foundation Awards

November 2024

T cells under pressure

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Dr Robert Köchl

King’s College London

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Professor Marco Fritzsche

University of Oxford

Elucidating the role of chromosomal copy number variants in neuroblastoma

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Dr Anestis Tsakiridis

University of Sheffield

Understanding and exploiting ribosome biogenesis dysregulation in cancer

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Dr Faraz Mardakheh

University of Oxford

Discovering and targeting the wider super-enhancer network of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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Dr Lisa Russell

Newcastle University

Multidisciplinary Project Awards

This funding scheme is now closed.

November 2024

Glymphatic brain clearance: A novel therapeutic target in glioblastoma

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Professor Mark Lythgoe

University College London

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Dr Martin Pule

University College London

Cancer Immunology Project Awards

This funding scheme is now closed.

November 2024

Transcriptome instability as a determinant of renal cancer immunotherapy outcomes

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Professor Dimitris Lagos

University of York