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Research Careers Committee awards

Explore our recently funded awardees from 2024 – 2025 and learn more about how we make funding decisions.

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Senior Cancer Research Fellowship

November 2024

Mechanisms, consequences and clinical translation of MHC-I and MHC-II dysregulation in colorectal and endometrial (pre)cancer

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Dr David Church

University of Oxford

Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship

May 2025

Towards next-generation chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies for acute leukaemia: a mechanistic dissection of therapeutic efficacy

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Dr Sara Ghorashian

The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

(with support from Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity)

November 2024

Spatial prostate assessment and the circulating environment - discovering the lethal clone (SPACE-X)

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Dr Alastair Lamb

Queen Mary University of London

Career Development Fellowship

May 2025

Dedifferentiation and cancer: dissecting the molecular link between tissue injury and tumour initiation

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Dr Miguel Bernabé-Rubio

University College London

Improving access to lung cancer early detection for individuals with severe mental illness and intellectual disability: reducing health inequity

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Dr Lorna McWilliams

University of Manchester

November 2024

Identifying strategies for preventing/reversing chemoresistance in ovarian cancer

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Dr Robb Hollis

University of Edinburgh

Deciphering the dynamics of melanoma plasticity

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Dr Kerrie Marie

University of Manchester

Career Establishment Award

May 2025

Exploiting anti-plasticity strategies to interfere with adaptive evolution in childhood neuroblastoma

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Dr Alejandra Bruna

Institute of Cancer Research

November 2024

Identifying, understanding and addressing inequalities in cancer treatment

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Dr Robert Kerrison

University of Surrey

Clinician Scientist Fellowship

November 2024

Chemotherapeutic opportunities of metabolic heterogeneity in oesophageal adenocarcinoma (COMET)

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Dr Stefan Antonowicz

Imperial College London

Funded by Cancer Research UK in partnership with Rosetrees Trust

Interrogating and targeting mechanisms by which cancer-associated fibroblasts limit radiotherapy responses in bladder cancer

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Dr Anna Wilkins

Institute of Cancer Research

Pre-doctoral Research Bursary

May 2025

The role and mechanism of highly variable genetic factors in cancer risk and prevention

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Dr David Zocche

University of Oxford

Unravelling tumour-host metabolic interactions that underpin the efficacy of metformin in high-volume metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer

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Dr Cameron Alexander

University of Manchester

Exploring the clonal landscape of oral potentially malignant disorders

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Dr Grigorios Thermos

University of Liverpool

(co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the Pathological Society)

Evaluation of pre-operative ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging for planning skull base tumour resection

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Dr Frederick Renyard

University of Oxford

November 2024

Proposal for pre-treatment CT/MRI derived radiomics and machine learning (ML) models for predicting treatment and immune-response in patients undergoing image-guided ablation and histotripsy for small renal masses and liver tumours: a proof-of-concept study

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Dr Vinson Wai-Shun Chan

University of Leeds

Developing new cell models for brain tumours which use the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway

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Dr Tirion Hughes

University of Oxford

Socio-demographic inequalities of access to novel genomic testing and therapeutics in solid tumours in the UK

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Dr Sarah Rae

Newcastle University

Exploring the potential of polymerase theta inhibition as a strategy for the radiosensitisation of oesophageal adenocarcinoma

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Dr Joanna Kucharczak

University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Bursary

May 2025

Distinct clonal alloimmune responses drive human graft versus leukaemia effect and graft versus host disease

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Dr Callum Wright

Newcastle University

November 2024

Characterisation of the NK cell response to HIPEC in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

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Dr Rachel Pounds

University of Birmingham

Clinical Trial Fellowship

November 2024

Transforming oncology trials: using big data for better outcomes

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Dr Grisma Patel

University College London

Bridge to Academic Leadership

May 2025

Identifying novel targets for proximal colon cancer prevention and early detection

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Dr Rhea Harewood

Imperial College London

Advanced causal modelling to improve understanding of late effects of radiotherapy in children and young adults

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Dr Angela Davey

University of Manchester

Gaining traction in glioblastoma therapy: targetable mechanisms of force generation

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Dr Alexander Loftus

University of Edinburgh

Refining HER2 diagnostics for an ultra-sensitive, objective assessment to guide therapy, inform resistance and monitor dynamic changes

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Dr Rebecca Allsopp

University of Leicester

Targeting translation quality control machinery to enhance the efficiency of genotoxic drugs in colon cancer

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Dr Susanta Chatterjee

Queen's University Belfast

Investigating cancer induced haematopoietic dysfunction: impact, mechanism and therapeutic potential

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Dr Christopher Mapperley

Institute of Cancer Research