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Early Detection and Diagnosis Research Committee awards

Explore our recently funded awardees from 2024 – 2025 or learn more about how we make funding decisions.

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Project Awards

November 2024

Spatial mapping of cervical precancers: combined use of molecular markers and cytology for disease monitoring and to understand the natural history/progression risk

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Professor John Doorbar

University of Cambridge

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Dr Nagayasu Egawa

University of Cambridge

Early detection of relapse in multiple myeloma patients with high risk genetics using quantitative immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (QIP-MS) in blood: an enhanced surveillance platform for the Myeloma XV, RADAR trial

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Dr Ceri Bygrave

University of Oxford

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Professor Karthik Ramasamy

University of Oxford

A rapid antibody-based assay for conclusive early diagnosis of T cell lymphoma

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Professor Elizabeth Soilleux

University of Cambridge

Improving survival by understanding avoidable emergency diagnosis and related inequalities

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Professor Georgios Lyratzopoulos

University College London

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Dr Matthew Barclay

University College London

Improving cervical cancer outcomes in disadvantaged populations: using HPV self-sampling to increase accessibility, equity, and participation in Scotland’s National Cervical SCREENing programme- AYE-SCREEN

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Professor Sharon Hanley

University of Aberdeen

Primer Awards

November 2024

Acoustic centrifugation to enhance extracellular vesicle based prostate cancer diagnosis

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Professor Aled Clayton

Cardiff University

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Dr Xin Yang

Cardiff University

pH sensing of interstitial skin fluid with non-invasive hydrogel patches can improve sensitivity of skin cancer diagnosis in primary care

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Professor Sylvain Ladame

Imperial College London

Identification of circular RNA biomarkers for early detection of normal colon cell transformation into precancerous and colorectal cancer states

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Dr Parinaz Mehdipour

University of Oxford

Systematically assessing prescription medication use before cancer diagnosis to identify opportunities for early cancer detection

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Professor Chris Cardwell

Queen's University Belfast

Early detection of oesophageal cancer: focusing on 10-cell tumour analysis

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Dr Greta Skrupskelyte

University of Cambridge

Developing a community pharmacy service to facilitate early diagnosis of bowel cancer: A rapid ethnographic study

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Professor Christian von Wagner

University College London

Development of a human fragment antibody targeting an early oncogenic biomarker in breast cancer; a tool for detection and diagnosis

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Dr Samantha Salvage

University of Cambridge

Programme Awards

2025 awardees to be announced.