Articles from Cancer Grand Challenges

Cancer Grand Challenges today announced the first cohort of international teams selected to join AURORA, a pioneering project that aims to help scientists make faster progress against cancer’s toughest challenges using AI.

The first two patients have been enrolled in a new clinical trial taking place in the US and UK. Up to 60 eligible children and young people with cancer will receive a personalized investigational therapy that harnesses the immune system to attack tumors.

Cancer Grand Challenges, a global initiative co-founded by the National Cancer Institute in the US and Cancer Research UK, today announced a major $125m commitment to propel cancer research into uncharted territory. Five pioneering international teams will each receive up to $25m over approximately five years to tackle some of the most ambitious and unanswered questions in cancer.

Today, Cancer Grand Challenges, the global research initiative, has announced seven new challenges which it deems to be among the biggest questions in cancer, offering international researchers the chance to form teams to apply for up to £20m (~$25m) in funding to take them on.

Cancer Grand Challenges, a global research funding initiative co-founded by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute, today announces funding for five new global research teams to take on some of the toughest cancer challenges: cancer inequities, early-onset cancers, solid tumors in children and T-cell receptors.

Cancer Grand Challenges, a research initiative co-founded by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), today announced nine new challenges for the global research community to take on – representing obstacles that continue to impede progress against cancer and, ultimately, benefits for patients.

Cancer Grand Challenges, a global research funding initiative co-founded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), today announced four new world-leading teams of scientists and patient advocates who will each receive $25M to take on some of cancer’s toughest challenges.