Western Research

Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/how-we-deliver-research/grand-challenge-award?wssl=1
Sponsor/Award: CANCER RESEARCH UK - GRAND CHALLENGES - 2025 EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Grant Amount: ?30,000
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Jun 11, 2025
Sponsor's: Jun 18, 2025

Subject Areas: Cancer Treatment, Cancer
Description:

Cancer Research UK's Grand Challenge is the most ambitious cancer research grant in the world - a series of ?20m awards seeking international, multi-disciplinary teams willing to take on the toughest challenges in cancer - providing the freedom to try novel approaches, at scale, in the pursuit of life changing discoveries.

An independent advisory panel have now set 7 new Grand Challenges and are inviting the world's top scientists to come together proposing novel ways to tackle them. The Challenges for this round are: AI-human collaborations in cancer; Cancer avoidance; Dark Proteome; Mechanisms driving mutational signatures; the nervous system and cancer; rewiring cancer cells; TME dymanics

Application Details: Shortlisted EOI's will receive up to ?30,000 to develop and submit a full application.

INDIRECT COSTS WILL BE DETERMINED FOR FULL APPLICATIONS

NOTE: All research-related grant applications, letters of intent, contracts and agreements requiring an institutional or organizational signature must submit related documents to the Office of Research Services for review and approval. Requests for institutional signature should be received a minimum of five to ten business days before the posted Sponsor deadline. Please see Western Research's website regarding the institutional signatory process for more details. Specific opportunities may have their own timelines and requirements for submissions. A ROLA Proposal submitted by the PI and bearing department and faculty approvals is required.
Western Contacts:

Sponsor Contacts:

PO BOX 1561
Oxford, United Kingdom