Funding for new investigators

Would you like to work with Cancer Research UK, one of the world’s leading cancer research organisations? Do you have a strong track record of research? Is your research relevant to understanding, preventing, diagnosing or treating cancer? Are you aiming to become a leader in your field?

Cancer Research UK is committed to developing the next generation of leaders in cancer research. We have recently launched this year’s schemes to support new investigators. We welcome applications from researchers with interests in any areas of research that is relevant to cancer. We are particularly keen to support new investigators in population research.

We are aiming to support up to 10 new investigators in this round of applications.

The deadline for preliminary applications is Thursday 19th August. To find out more about the schemes that are available to support your research, see the new investigators section.

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Launch of new Funding and Research website

Welcome to the new Funding and Research section of Cancer Research UK's website. We had three aims in mind when redeveloping this site.

We wanted to showcase our exceptional researchers and the high-quality work they are doing. To do that, we have completely updated the directory of our researchers and grants. To help you find the information you want, not only can you search the whole directory but you can also filter it. If you want to read about research in a particular location, in a certain cancer type or in a particular field of research, you can now find out about our work in these areas, and in many others. Also, for the first time, detailed scientific information is presented alongside more general summaries in plain English wherever possible, so that you can decide what level of detail you would like to read.

We hope that making information about our research more accessible will help our researchers collaborate with each other and with other researchers across the world.

We wanted to make it easier to find information about our funding schemes and our funding committees and so encourage more people to apply for Cancer Research UK funding and for jobs in our Institutes and Centres. You can find grants by funding type, by the committee that runs the scheme, by the type of research you want to do, or simply look at an A-Z list of all of our schemes. Once you've found the one you are looking for, you can find out who has been granted that award most recently.

We hope that you enjoy using our new website. It will be updated regularly, and we will continue to develop new sections to provide more information about what research we fund and how we fund it. If you have any comments on the site, suggestions for new content or if you have noticed any problems that need to be corrected, please let us know by filling in the Contact us form.

Lilian Clark
Executive Director
Science Operations and Funding

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