Deadline: 9 January 2025
The Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust is inviting applications for its Research Grant Funding to support stand-alone projects, research that is part of a wider project or trial or research that is likely to lead to a further, larger grant application to a major funder of research.
Focus Areas
- Patients with poor outcomes from diagnosis:
- Their focus includes cancers in children and young people that present a poor prognosis at diagnosis (less than 50% 5-year survival rate). This includes cases where diagnosis occurs at a later stage and cancer subtypes with poor prognosis from the outset, such as rhabdoid tumours.
- Certain cancer types, such as rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma and bone tumours are well funded by other charities, so they are seeking proposals that target other underfunded cancer types with poor outcomes.
- Research Supporting Trials or Biomarker Studies:
- They welcome projects that support clinical trials, including those focused on biological biomarkers as part of early or late-phase trials. This priority area encompasses studies on radiological biomarkers, quality of life studies and liquid biopsies within clinical trials and is open to all cancer subtypes.
- Rare Tumours:
- Proposals focused on rare paediatric tumours, which typically have poorer outcomes and have historically received less attention and funding, are strongly encouraged. The aim is to fund research with clear potential for translatable outcomes that could significantly improve treatment options and survival rates for children with cancer.
Funding Information
- Funding of up to £100,000 is available for a project lasting up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available to research organisations based in the UK and Ireland, including universities and hospitals.
Evaluation Criteria
- As an AMRC-registered charity, applications will be evaluated by external reviewers and our Research Advisory Panel based on:
- Scientific quality and impact
- Relevance to the Trust’s research priorities
- Scientific leadership
- Justification of resources
- The Research Advisory Panel will rank the applications and make recommendations to the Trust’s Board of Trustees for final approval.
For more information, visit Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust.
