Prevention and Population Project Award

The Prevention and Population Project Award provides funding for hypothesis-driven research with clear objectives in primary prevention and population research, including prevention interventional studies. Awards support focused research proposals with a line-of-sight to population impact and relevance to cancer prevention. Funding is flexible for up to three years and can be awarded up to £500,000.

Project funding up to £500,000; funding period up to three years.

Applicants must be scientists, clinicians or healthcare workers based at a UK university, medical school, hospital or research institute and have some postdoctoral experience or equivalent. Host institution approval is required prior to submission; interventional trials may require an expression of interest in a closed round.

Submit an application via Cancer Research UK funding process; host institution must approve applications. Interventional trials require an initial expression of interest. Applicants are encouraged to contact the funder for eligibility advice.