Aim of the call: fund scientific research that may, in future, help reduce the incidence of cancer or improve cancer survival

Projects to be funded: basic or translational research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of cancer. This definition is usually interpreted conservatively. Applications for clinical or psychosocial research and other types of applied cancer research are not accepted.

Elegibility criterias

The PI will usually be a PhD-qualified tenured or tenure-track research group leader. Post-doctoral researchers with more than three years postdoctoral research experience at the time of application are also eligible to apply for a grant. Post-doctoral applicants who are not yet independent researchers must name their group head as co-applicant on the grant.

The PI must be employed at a recognised, non-profit research institution anywhere in the world. Honorary contracts and emeritus positions are usually acceptable.

The PI must have a contract of employment that will last for at least the duration of the grant requested, or be able to show evidence that their current contract would be extended if the grant were awarded.

A research group can only submit a single application to Worldwide Cancer Research in a grant round.

Where a project is collaborative and involves more than one investigator and/or research institution, one of the applicants must take the role of PI. This must be the investigator whose research group will carry out most of the work on the project. If an award is made for a collaborative project it will be made entirely to the PI’s institution.

Duration: 1 to 3 years

Budget: The maximum budget permitted is £250,000, but it should be noted that most of our 3-year grants have a budget of less than £200,000.

Eligible costs:

Staff salaries

Research consumables

Animals

Equipment

Travel

Other (High cost items or experiments; Fees for external or internal services, such as antibody production, DNA sequencing or statistical support).

Applications:

PI must register to Worldwide Cancer World and submit the application online.

Worldwide Cancer Research will only accept the first 500 applications submitted in the grant round.

Proposals must be submitted by your Head of Department and Authorising Officer before the grant deadline.

Deadlines:

Deadlines: 03th May 2019 (only the first 500 applications will be accepted)

Start Project: if a grant is awarded, it will normally start 9-12 months after the application was submitted.

More information:

Worldwide Cancer research 2019

Previous project funded

Grant Application Handbook (attached document)