Cancer Research UK is funding projects to a new study on the cancer -
A NEW financing scheme launched by Cancer Research UK today (Thursday) seems to bring a new overview of some of the greatest challenges of cancer.
multidisciplinary UK Award research project on cancer * will fund projects that encourage collaboration among cancer researchers and scientists in the engineering and the physical sciences.
projects could cover anything from finding innovative ways to detect and treat the disease to new techniques to understand cancer. The new scheme will fund about 10 projects per year; each project will provide four-year funding of up to a total of £ 500,000.
The increased interaction between the different disciplines has the potential to make a real impact in the fight against cancer. The combination of new technologies and different perspectives will speed breakthroughs that will result in more people survive cancer.
Such collaborations are already making a difference. Cancer Research UK scientists at Cambridge have worked with their astronomy colleagues use techniques originally developed to identify the most distant stars, to find markers to predict the aggressiveness of breast cancer. This could mean that pathologists must no longer look down the microscope to identify key differences in each tumor sample, which could speed up testing to guide treatment decisions.
Professor Sir Mike Brady, an engineer by training who worked in cancer research over the past 20 years at the University of Oxford will be chairman of the expert committee that will review applications.
Professor Sir Brady said :. "Enormous progress has been made in understanding, diagnosing and treating cancer and has been based largely on research in fundamental biology But the important contributions of the physical sciences, detection and imaging through nanotechnology for large data analysis based on machine learning, are increasingly recognized as fundamental factors in cancer research. We now want to bring these different groups as well as from the beginning of a research project to see . that the discoveries they can work closely "
Dr. David Scott, director of science funding at cancer Research UK, said:" Taking truly innovative approaches to the fight against cancer will bring together researchers from different disciplines. The new multidisciplinary project price will stimulate collaborations between biomedical research and engineering and the physical sciences. We are looking for applications that will address cancer from a number of areas, including better detection, drug delivery and imaging technologies. "
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