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Prevention and Population Research Committee awards

Explore our recently funded awardees and learn more about how we make funding decisions.

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Programme Awards

May 2026

CanRisk: optimising cancer risk prediction to promote tailored prevention and early detection

Antonis Antoniou.

Professor Antonis Antoniou

University of Cambridge

Juliet Usher-Smith.

Dr Juliet Usher-Smith

University of Cambridge

T cell-directed interception of screen detected lung cancer

James Reading.

Dr James Reading

University College London

November 2025

Prostate cancer aetiology and prevention (PCAP): harnessing protein discoveries for cancer control

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Professor Ruth Travis

University of Oxford

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Dr Karl Smith-Byrne

University of Oxford

Explore the Prevention and Population Programme Award

Project Awards

May 2026

INOVATE - inequalities in ovarian cancer care and outcomes: the intersection of patient and healthcare system factors

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Dr Manuela Quaresma

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

November 2025

Real-world effectiveness of vaccination programmes in cancer prevention

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Dr Milena Falcaro

Queen Mary University of London

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Professor Peter Sasieni

Queen Mary University of London

Beyond BRCA1/2: enhancing risk prediction for breast/ovarian cancer predisposition genes using polygenic scores

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Professor Marc Tischkowitz

University of Cambridge

Preventing ovarian cancer through early excision of tubes & late ovarian removal Phase-2 (PROTECTOR-2)

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Professor Ranjit Manchanda

Queen Mary University of London

Investigating inequalities in utilisation, adherence and outcomes for immuno-, biological and precision anti-cancer therapies: the UNEQUAL-IBP project

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Professor Linda Sharp

Newcastle University

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Professor Adam Todd

Newcastle University

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Dr Laura Woods

Newcastle University

Trends in multiple-cause coded cancer mortality and end-of-life care in England

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Dr Raph Goldacre

University of Oxford

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Professor Eva Morris

University of Oxford

Explore the Prevention and Population Project Award

Biology to Prevention Awards

May 2026

Developing chemopreventative inhibitors of GREM1 to manipulate the Bone Morphogenetic Protein pathway in inherited polyposis syndromes

Simon Leedham.

Professor Simon Leedham

University of Oxford

Christian Siebold.

Professor Christian Siebold

University of Oxford

Incretin-Mimetic drugs for cancer prevention - interrogating mechanisms from mouse to human breast to advance clinical translation: the IMPACT study

Karen Brown.

Professor Karen Brown

University of Leicester

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Canadian Cancer Society)

Michael Pollak.

Dr Michael Pollak

McGill University

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Canadian Cancer Society)

William Muller.

Dr William Muller

McGill University

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Canadian Cancer Society)

Walid Khaled.

Professor Walid Khaled

University of Cambridge

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Canadian Cancer Society)

GLP-1 receptor agonists as a mitigation strategy for clonal hematopoeisis risk

Philip Awadalla.

Professor Philip Awadalla

University of Oxford

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Canadian Cancer Society)

Stephanie Xie.

Dr Stephanie Xie

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Canadian Cancer Society)

Targeting early events in kidney cancer - integrating metabolism and immune surveillance for prevention

Samra Turajlić.

Professor Samra Turajlić

The University of Manchester

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the American Cancer Society)

Luigi Perelli.

Dr Luigi Perelli

MD Anderson Cancer Center

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the American Cancer Society)

November 2025

The Boomers study: identifying a causative role for pks+ e-coli mutagenesis in early-onset colorectal cancer evolution

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Professor Trevor Graham

The Institute of Cancer Research

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Professor Kevin Monahan

Imperial College London

Cancer prevention by the ageing microbiome

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Professor Filipe Cabreiro

Imperial College London

Explore the Biology to Prevention Award