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Cancer Grand Challenges

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Cancer Grand Challenges

@CancerGrand

Daring to solve some of the most complex challenges in cancer research |  Founded by: @CR_UK & @theNCI

London, UK | Bethesda, MD, USA

cancergrandchallenges.org

Joined May 2020

Cancer Grand Challenges
@CancerGrand
Sep 5, 2023
📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣 We're excited to announce the 12 teams shortlisted for a #CancerGrandChallenges award. Each team has the chance to receive up to $25m to make radical progress against cancer’s toughest challenges. Discover the teams: bit.ly/3YYV5lS @theNCI @CR_UK
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@CancerGrand
Mar 6, 2024
📢 Announcing five new global #CancerGrandChallenges teams! 📢 We're thrilled to announce five new teams, each receiving up to $25m over five years to tackle some of cancer's toughest challenges. Meet the teams: bit.ly/3Oqe58O @CR_UK @theNCI
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@CancerGrand
Mar 8, 2023
9 new #CancerGrandChallenges 📢 We're inviting international teams to apply for up to $25m in funding. Expressions of Interest are now open until 22 June. Explore the challenges⏬ cancergrandchallenges.org/new-challenges…
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@CancerGrand
Jun 16, 2022
Announcing four new #CancerGrandChallenges teams, receiving a total of $100m to take on cancer’s toughest challenges Congratulations to the new teams 🧵 1/n @CR_UK @theNCI
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@CancerGrand
Feb 9, 2022
🔥OUT TODAY: clusters of #mutations identified as a major driver of tumour evolution. New @CancerGrand research published today in @Nature also joins the dots between ecDNA and APOBEC3, coining the team ‘kyklonas’ where they occur together. Learn more: bit.ly/3GCEjyc
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@CancerGrand
Apr 6, 2023
1/2 A @CRUKResearch funded study on the role of air pollution in the promotion of lung cancer has been published in @Nature by @CharlesSwanton - @CancerGrand Scientific Committee Member. Read Allan Balmain's (@UCSF) News & Views commentary @NatureNV ⏬
Air pollution’s role in the promotion of lung cancer
From nature.com
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@CancerGrand
Jun 21, 2021
BREAKING NEWS: today we announce 11 teams selected to compete for our awards! Winners receive up to £20m each and the freedom to unleash their scientific creativity, conducting research that transcends geography and discipline - bit.ly/3cFyrZa #CancerGrandChallenges
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@CancerGrand
Nov 2, 2022
1. Our #CancerGrandChallenges #FutureLeaders Conference 2022 started today in beautiful #Barcelona. PhD students and Postdocs from all over the world coming together as a community to help us tackle cancer's toughest challenges.
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@CancerGrand
Oct 6, 2023
Congratulations to Nuria Lopez-Bigas @nlbigas @IRBBarcelona, co-lead of #CancerGrandChallenges team PROMINENT, for being elected to the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences @RACiencias 🎉 Learn more about the PROMINENT team ➡️ cancergrandchallenges.org/teams/prominent @CR_UK @theNCI @ContraCancerEs
RACiencias
@RACiencias
Oct 5, 2023
En la #RACiencias damos la bienvenida a 2⃣ nuevos académic@s en la Sección de Ciencias Naturales 🌳José Manuel Moreno, Catedrático de Ecología del Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales @uclm_es 🧬Nuria López Bigas @nlbigas, dirige el grupo Cancer Biomedical Genomics
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@CancerGrand
May 1, 2024
Congrats #CancerGrandChallenges team Mutographs on their paper in @Nature today! Showing the power of their mutational epidemiology approach, they uncovered mutational signatures underlying global variance in #KidneyCancer incidence rates. Read: nature.com/articles/s4158… (1/5)
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@CancerGrand
Jul 27, 2023
This week, our Scientific Committee came together in New York to review the applications we got from research teams around the world, hoping to take on one of our new challenges. Narrowing 178 applications down to 10-12 is no small feat! Shortlisted teams to be announced in Sep⌛️
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@CancerGrand
Jun 14, 2023
New research from the #CancerGrandChallenges CANCAN team finds that a ketogenic diet slows tumour growth but shortens survival by accelerating the onset of cancer cachexia in IL-6-associated murine models of cancer cachexia 🔽 (£/$) sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (1/4)
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@CancerGrand
Jan 12, 2024
Congrats @BiffiGiulia, of #CancerGrandChallenges team CANCAN, and her lab on their new paper in @Cancer_Cell! They've found that EGFR-activated myofibroblasts promote metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) (1/4) 👉cell.com/cancer-cell/fu… @theNCI @CR_UK
EGFR-activated myofibroblasts promote metastasis of pancreatic cancer
From cell.com
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@CancerGrand
Jan 20, 2023
Our #CancerGrandChallenges Scientific Committee is in #NYC agreeing a new set of challenges which, if solved, could revolutionise how we approach cancer. We'll announce the challenges in March. Teams taking them on can apply for up to $25m. For updates:👇cancergrandchallenges.org/signup
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