Prevention and Population Research Committee awards

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

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Programme Awards

November 2024

Suppressing platelet activation to reduce cancer - a new approach to cancer prevention

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Professor Ruth Langley

University College London

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Professor Sir John Burn

Newcastle University

Inequalities in cancer care and outcomes

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Professor Bernard Rachet

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Professor Ellen Nolte

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Project Awards

November 2024

Improving lung cancer survival by reducing inequalities to optimal treatment

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Professor Georgios Lyratzopoulos

University College London

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Dr Matthew Barclay

University College London

Biology to Prevention Awards

November 2024

Development and immunogenicity profiling of HPVax - a therapeutic, broad-coverage mRNA vaccine targeting all oncogenic human papillomaviruses

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Dr Karin Hellner

University of Oxford

A biology informed approach to prevent gastric cancer in high-risk individuals

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Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald

University of Cambridge

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Dr John Lizhe Zhuang

University of Cambridge

Developing targeted strategies for precision breast cancer prevention

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Dr Andrew Gilmore

University of Manchester

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Professor Susan Astley

University of Manchester

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Dr Sacha Howell

University of Manchester

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Dr Sankari Nagarajan

University of Manchester