Cancer Grand Challenges

Cancer Grand Challenges was co-founded by Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest charitable funder of cancer research, and the US National Cancer Institute in 2020. It was created to tackle cancer’s toughest problems by funding high-impact research, making transformative discoveries and accelerating their translation into patient benefit.

Over the past 50 years, Cancer Research UK’s pioneering work has helped double cancer survival in the UK. Its funding of Cancer Grand Challenges is part of its mission to continue saving and improving lives by supporting world-class research into the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer.