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Research Careers Committee

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

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Senior Cancer Research Fellowship

November 2024

Mechanisms, consequences and clinical translation of MHC-I and MHC-II dysregulation in colorectal and endometrial (pre)cancer

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Dr David Church

University of Oxford

Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship

November 2024

Spatial prostate assessment and the circulating environment - discovering the lethal clone (SPACE-X)

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Dr Alastair Lamb

Queen Mary University of London

Career Development Fellowship

November 2024

Identifying strategies for preventing/reversing chemoresistance in ovarian cancer

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Dr Robb Hollis

University of Edinburgh

Deciphering the dynamics of melanoma plasticity

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Dr Kerrie Marie

University of Manchester

Career Establishment Fellowship

November 2024

Identifying, understanding and addressing inequalities in cancer treatment

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Dr Robert Kerrison

University of Surrey

Clinician Scientist Fellowship

November 2024

Interrogating and targeting mechanisms by which cancer-associated fibroblasts limit radiotherapy responses in bladder cancer

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Dr Anna Wilkins

Institute of Cancer Research

Pre-doctoral Research Bursary

November 2024

Proposal for pre-treatment CT/MRI derived radiomics and machine learning (ML) models for predicting treatment and immune-response in patients undergoing image-guided ablation and histotripsy for small renal masses and liver tumours: a proof-of-concept study

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Dr Vinson Wai-Shun Chan

University of Leeds

Developing new cell models for brain tumours which use the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway

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Dr Tirion Hughes

University of Oxford

Socio-demographic inequalities of access to novel genomic testing and therapeutics in solid tumours in the UK

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Dr Sarah Rae

Newcastle University

Exploring the potential of polymerase theta inhibition as a strategy for the radiosensitisation of oesophageal adenocarcinoma

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Dr Joanna Kucharczak

University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Bursary

November 2024

Characterisation of the NK cell response to HIPEC in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

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Dr Rachel Pounds

University of Birmingham

Clinical Trial Fellowship

November 2024

Transforming oncology trials: using big data for better outcomes

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Dr Grisma Patel

University College London