Discovery Research Committee awards

Discovery Programme Awards

June 2026

Investigating and targeting deregulated mitochondrial function in leukaemic stem cells

Professor Vignir Helgason

University of Glasgow

Profiling pathways to a purge, prime and re-programme therapeutic vaccine strategy for hepatocellular carcinoma

Professor Mala Maini

University College London

COSTIMTHER - Understanding and exploiting agonistic 4-1BB co-stimulation in crosspriming immune synapses for cancer immunotherapy

Professor Ignacio Melero

University of Oxford

November 2025

Therapeutic targeting of cancer stem cells in acute myeloid leukaemia

Professor Kamil Kranc

The Institute of Cancer Research

Automated high precision AI-accelerated radiotherapy

Professor Uwe Oelfke

The Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Anna Kirby

Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Cancer Research

Exploiting the cell cycle vulnerability landscape in ovarian cancer

Professor Stephen Taylor

The University of Manchester

Understanding the immunologic and structural basis of antigen-specific tumour-directed human alloreactive immune T cell responses for therapeutic benefit

Professor Paresh Vyas

University of Oxford

Cellular enlargement as a driver of therapy-induced senescence and genome instability

Professor Adrian Saurin

University of Dundee

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Discovery Programme Foundation Awards

June 2026

Assessing DNA replication timing as a vulnerability in cancer

Dr Rushad Pavri

King's College London

November 2025

Targeting the evolution of drug resistance in high grade serous ovarian cancer

Professor Michelle Lockley

Queen Mary University of London

Enabling immune destruction of tumours through precision targeting of extracellular matrix

Dr Oliver Pearce

Queen Mary University of London

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