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

May 2025

Identifying precision prevention strategies for obesity related cancers through enhanced understanding of biological mechanisms and risk prediction: the obesity-related cancer epidemiology programme (OCEP)

Professor Richard Martin

University of Bristol

Dr Rebecca Richmond

University of Bristol

Professor Tom Gaunt

University of Bristol

Dr Helen Winter

University of Bristol

Dr Mattias Johansson

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Haematological Malignancy Research Network: a UK population-based programme of epidemiological research

Professor Alexandra Smith

University of York

Professor Eve Roman

University of York

Tumour-immune interactions in smouldering myeloma: unravelling diversity at the patient and molecular level to inform interception

Professor Kwee Yong

University College London

Professor Irene Ghobrial

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

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

May 2025

Assessing the somatic evolution landscape of the human oesophagus for cancer risk prediction and early detection

Dr Inigo Martincorena

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Dr Moritz Przybilla

Wellcome Sanger Institute

IMvasion: targeting bacterial invasion in intestinal metaplasia for the prevention of gastric adenocarcinoma

Dr Amanda Rossiter

University of Birmingham

IMPACT: invasive mesothelioma prevention through antigen prioritisation for cancer immune-treatment

Professor Nicola Ternette

University of Dundee

WNT-driven cell competition: a target for novel preventative strategies against colorectal adenoma formation

Dr Nadia Nasreddin

Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute

Professor Owen Sansom

Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute

The role of clonal interactions in ageing-associated sporadic tumorigenesis in the intestine

Professor Masashi Narita

University of Cambridge

Dr Ianish Saddien

University of Cambridge

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