We fund investigator-led programmes, projects and fellowships through our response-mode and other grant funding schemes. Our decisions are guided by our expert funding committee and panel members.
Our funding supports researchers at all career stages, enabling them to unlock new and better ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer.
Explore how we make funding decisionsOur Research Careers Committee funds research aimed at developing the careers of early to mid-career cancer researchers and clinical academic researchers.
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Our Discovery Research Committee funds basic discovery and early translational research.
Our Early Detection and Diagnosis Research Committee funds research into ways detect and diagnose cancer at the earliest possible point.
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Our Prevention and Population Research Committee funds research on cancer primary prevention and population studies across all cancer types and stages to improve understanding of cancer risk, incidence, and outcomes.
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Our Clinical Research Committee funds investigator-led clinical research and studies supporting or enabling clinical trials. All clinical funding schemes have now been replaced by a single, modular scheme supporting clinical trials, experimental medicine and sample collection.
This scheme accelerates the translation of discovery research into novel therapeutics for children and young people with cancer. Funded projects run collaboratively between academic and Cancer Research Horizons drug discovery laboratories, with funding awarded by Cancer Research UK to further our charitable objectives.
Children’s Cancer Institute
Children’s Cancer Institute
Children’s Cancer Institute
University of Leeds
University of Leeds
We fund individual projects and fellowships, large-scale team science programmes, multidisciplinary collaborations and international consortia.
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.
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