Cancer Research UK: Population Research Catalyst Award– Expression of Interest

Aim: to encourage multidisciplinary, innovative collaborations, in which three or more research groups come together to deliver impact over and above what they could do alone.

Eligible research areas:

- Early Diagnosis:

• Cancer symptoms: natural history and awareness • The early diagnosis pathway, including alternative routes to diagnosis • Interventions to increase presentation to primary care or uptake of screening • Screening as a form of early diagnosis

- Prevention:

• Behavioral and lifestyle interventions to prevent cancer (individual or population level), including prevention of cancer recurrence • Adherence to chemoprevention • Screening as a form of prevention

- EPIDEMIOLOGY:

• Classical and health epidemiology, plus survival and incidence rates • epidemiology) • Secondary physical effects of cancer treatment • Methodological and statistical research relating to population sciences

Funding: up to £5 million over 5 years (10% overhead).

Must include a UK partner.

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/our-funding-schemes/population-research-catalyst-award