Cancer Grand Challenges

We dive into five innovations from the world’s greatest minds that could transform the way we deal with cancer

We’re unpacking two recently funded Cancer Grand Challenges, and introducing the global, multidisciplinary teams taking them on.

Today, Cancer Grand Challenges announced four new teams that have each received £20 million in funding to take on the biggest challenges in cancer research

An international team of researchers have identified 21 common faults in cancer DNA using an algorithm that works similarly to Netflix

We speak with the industrialist, investor and Cancer Research UK supporter about his substantial donation to support our early career researchers… and why he changed his mind about cancer research.

An international team of Cancer Grand Challenges scientists are conducting one biggest studies of its kind to try to predict who will develop invasive breast cancer.

We’ve partnered with the National Cancer Institute in the US (NCI) to stimulate even more innovative research collaborations through Cancer Grand Challenges.

We spoke to 3 members of the global STORMing Cancer team about their work to solve the mystery of inflammation and cancer.

Our scientists have been hunting for patterns that could reveals clues about metabolism and cancer.

Our Grand Challenge scientists have discovered that a common type of bacteria found in our guts could contribute to bowel cancer.