Worldwide Cancer Research (WWCR)

1-3 years

The maximum budget allowed is GBP 275,000, but it should be noted that most of the three-year grants we award have a budget of around GBP 200,000.

Worldwide Cancer Research (WWCR)'s goal is to support research that seeks to answer the difficult questions in cancer biology. We are looking for innovative and truly novel ideas that have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.

Worldwide Cancer Research awards project grants of 12 to 36 months in length to support basic, fundamental or translational research into the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. Research that draws on epidemiological, behavioural and clinical data to provide a starting point for a new avenue of research is welcomed. Multidisciplinary or discipline-hopping projects are encouraged where this helps stimulate innovation.

The research described in your application should be a discrete, hypothesis-driven project, achievable within the duration of the support requested.

The principal investigator on the application must be a suitably qualified researcher (minimum of PhD followed by three years research experience, or equivalent qualification or research experience).