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Find research opportunities in your field
Supporting a broad portfolio of clinical studies which maximise patient impact.
Behavioural research, epidemiology, intervention studies, public health and research into cancer prevention.
Develop your research career
We're committed to supporting the next generation of cancer researchers and we have opportunities for you wherever you are in your career, whether you're new to the lab, or growing your fully fledged independent research group.
We have a broad range of fellowships, bursaries, job opportunities and studentships to cater for your situation, whether you're an academic researcher or a clinician scientist, and whether you require a fully funded fellowship or grants to advance individual projects.
Our strategic priorities
Early detection and diagnosis
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We have a broad variety of opportunities to help you progress your early detection and diagnosis research or get involved in this field for the first time, from research funding grants to events and conferences.
Cancers of unmet need
We’re building a broad portfolio of research in notoriously hard-to-treat cancers, and we can support you as you move into this field. With survival rates that haven’t changed significantly for decades, cancers of the brain, lung, oesophagus, pancreas, liver and stomach are now among our top priorities.
How we deliver research
We fund a broad portfolio of investigator-led research, from individual projects and fellowships to large-scale team science programmes, multidisciplinary collaborations and international cosortia. But our grant funding is only the beginning of the support we offer to our community.
We make long-term investments in state-of-the-art facilities and resources to provide an outstanding research environment. We facilitate networking and collaboration at our events, from our flagship international conferences to our exclusive community meetings. And we partner with industry, charities, not-for-profits and government agencies in the UK and around the world to deliver research.
Our Research Strategy
We invest in creative people who can deliver research of the highest quality. Our strategy shapes how we'll discover more about the mechanisms of how cancer develops and progresses to unlock new and better ways to prevent, detect and treat it.
Our events
We host a variety of events every year to help accelerate research, from our flagship international conferences in priority fields, to exclusive meetings for the researchers in our community.
Our infrastructure
Our state-of-the-art facilities provide capabilities across the full breadth of cancer research and the translational pipeline, and support close partnerships with universities and the NHS.
Latest news and feature stories
Research careers – seeing, is believing
To make sure all researchers feel confident in applying to CRUK, it was clear that some demystification of our funding panels needed to go on.
The power of observation
CRUK’s observer scheme allows researchers a chance to view our funding panel discussions and interviews before they make their own application – we spoke to two observers to see how it has helped them…
Breaking down barriers
To mark Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we had the privilege of sitting down with paediatric neuro-oncologist Dr Sadhana Jackson.
Research is Beautiful – the best of the rest
Huge round of applause for all those who submitted entries last month – your images were fantastic.
Research with integrity – time to recognise postdocs
There is a group of researchers who are unsung heroes when it comes to research integrity… Dr Andrew Porter tells us why and gives a well-deserved shout out to our hard-working postdocs.
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