UCL researchers shortlisted for Cancer Grand Challenges funding

An interdisciplinary, global team of scientists co-led from Stanford University, USA, and University College London, UK, has been selected for the final stages of Cancer Grand Challenges. Team RESCuE is now in with a chance of receiving up to £20m to make radical progress against one of cancer’s toughest challenges.

In March, Cancer Grand Challenges announced nine new challenges, with 178 interdisciplinary, world-class global teams submitting bold ideas to take them on. Team RESCuE, led by Prof Michelle Monje, Stanford University, and Prof Alison Lloyd, UCL, is one of 12 of those shortlisted. The team draws together a unique set of expertise and unites researchers from Canada, Germany, Netherlands, UK and USA.

They will now receive seed funding to draft their full research proposal and compete for up to £20m in funding, empowering them to rise above the traditional boundaries of geography and discipline to ultimately change outcomes for people with cancer.

If successful, team RESCuE would seek to address the cause, consequence and cure of chemotherapy-induced neurotoxicities in both the central and peripheral nervous systems. Funded teams will be announced in March 2024.

"By bringing together leading neuroscientists from across the globe with diverse and complementary expertise, our vision is to provide a step-change in the understanding of chemotherapy-induced neurotoxicities to deliver real benefits to people with cancer" says Prof Alison Lloyd, Co-Lead, RESCuE Team.

"We had a fantastic response from the global research community who rose to the task and submitted bold and innovative ideas to take on our new challenges. We are pleased to have a shortlist of 12 teams whose proposed research approaches we believe hold the greatest potential to make the progress against these cancer challenges that we urgently need. I'm looking forward to seeing how the teams develop their approaches further in their full applications," says Dr David Scott, Director, Cancer Grand Challenges.

Congratulations Team RESCuE!

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