Grand Challenge Awards

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Grant Name

Funder

Cancer Research UK (CRUK)

Country or Region

United Kingdom

Research Field

Cancer Biology

Cancer Genetics

Cancer or Carcinogenesis

Cancer Prevention

Electronic Cigarettes

Immunotherapy

Medical Diagnosis

Medical Microbiology

Mutagenesis

Oncology

Radiology & Medical Imaging

Tumor Immunology

Tumors

Deadline

April 1, 2022 (Expired)

Grant Size

Upper £20,000,000GBP Cancer Grand Challenges awards provide up to £20 million for the direct costs of research (research staff, associated running costs and equipment) and all patient advocate involvement and engagement activities.

Contact Info

info@cancergrandchallenges.org

Eligibility

Points to consider:
- Your team must have a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigators (Co-I)
- Your team should be international, with researchers based in different countries and a maximum of 70% of the team based in any one country.
- Your team should be multidisciplinary. We encourage teams to include team members who are new to cancer research.
- Your team should be diverse. You should consider the balance of gender, ethnicity and career stage when building your team.
- You can include commercial partners in your team as Co-Investigators.
- Your will need to develop a strategy to engage advocates (people affected by cancer) and the public in your programme. Your final team needs to include advocates, but you don't need to have recruited these members at EOI stage

Description

Cancer Grand Challenges are intended to transform cancer research. Therefore, we are looking for applications that reflect this ambition. We want to see proposals for bold, innovative solutions to the challenges we have set, and to see evidence that applicants have actively sought out new, perhaps unusual, collaborations that will bring fresh thinking to these currently intractable problems. Cancer Grand Challenges are not intended to fund research that would be fundable by other response-mode schemes and initiatives.Cancer Grand Challenges are not single investigator-led awards - they should involve investigators from institutions across the globe, and from different disciplines. Ultimately, we are looking for the best teams with the best ideas to address the challenges. We also anticipate that proposals will drive global collaboration and bring together diverse expertise in a way that is not already happening. Including non-traditional disciplines is encouraged, both to drive the development of novel technologies or methodologies and to incorporate thinking from other fields that has not yet been applied to cancer. Underpinning this, involving people affected by cancer is also required to ensure the research is focused on the needs of patients.The end point of a Cancer Grand Challenges award does not need to be a clinical intervention or clinical impact within the duration of an award. To the greatest extent possible and appropriate, research plans to address a challenge should have a clear line of sight towards preventing, diagnosing or treating cancer.Our 9 challenges focus on the following areas:
- Cachexia and performance status
- Dormancy
- E-cigarettes
- Extrachromosomal DNA
- Inflammation
- Macromolecules
- Normal Phenotypes
- Senescence
- Solid tumours in children Eligibility Points to consider:
- Your team must have a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigators (Co-I)
- Your team should be international, with researchers based in different countries and a maximum of 70% of the team based in any one country.
- Your team should be multidisciplinary. We encourage teams to include team members who are new to cancer research.
- Your team should be diverse. You should consider the balance of gender, ethnicity and career stage when building your team.
- You can include commercial partners in your team as Co-Investigators.
- Your will need to develop a strategy to engage advocates (people affected by cancer) and the public in your programme. Your final team needs to include advocates, but you don't need to have recruited these members at EOI stage

Website

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/how-we-deliver-research/grand-challenge-award

Funding resources
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link