WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND — grant history
Latest income
£11.9m
Grants listed (FY2025)
11
Listed grants total
£2.3m
Accounts grants total
£2.3m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: World Cancer Research Fund International manages and administers the Regular Grant Programme on behalf of World Cancer Research Fund and Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds.
- What they don’t fund: Our grant programme accepts applications from anywhere in the world except the Americas (North America, Central America including the Caribbean, and South America).
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | University of Southern Denmark | — | £385k |
| new | Southampton University Hospital | — | £248k |
| new | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute | — | £75k |
| new | International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) | — | £74k |
| new | University of Torino | — | £60k |
| new | Australian Catholic University | — | £60k |
| down | Imperial College London | £1.6m | £609k |
| up | University of Oxford | £318k | £490k |
| up | National Institute for Health and Care Research | £68k | £202k |
| down | University of Bristol | £289k | £75k |
| not listed | University of Iceland | £340k | — |
| not listed | The CANDO Programme Southampton University | £251k | — |
| not listed | IARC | £78k | — |
| not listed | Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey | £75k | — |
| not listed | University of Hong Kong | £75k | — |
| not listed | Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute | £60k | — |
| not listed | Union for International Cancer Control | £39k | — |
| not listed | International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) | £4k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial College London | FY2025 | £609k | Global Cancer Update Programme |
| University of Oxford | FY2025 | £490k | Modified Nucleic Acids in Diet and Bowel Cancer Risk |
| University of Southern Denmark | FY2025 | £385k | Reducing dietary selenium for lung cancer prevention |
| Southampton University Hospital | FY2025 | £248k | The CANDO Programme, Nutrition, body composition, metabolic health and clinical outcomes in breast cancer |
| National Institute for Health and Care Research | FY2025 | £202k | NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration |
| Murdoch Children’s Research Institute | FY2025 | £75k | Ultra-processed food intake in childhood and their link to future risk of cancer |
| University of Bristol | FY2025 | £75k | Characterising the role of body composition and inflammation in multiple myeloma |
| International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) | FY2025 | £74k | Understanding the role of metabolic health in lifestyle related cancers through proteomics |
| University of Torino | FY2025 | £60k | Polyunsaturated fatty acids improve immunotherapy efficacy in non-small cell lung cancer |
| Australian Catholic University | FY2025 | £60k | Safety and feasibility of exercise in patients with melanoma undergoing adjuvant immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy |
| Imperial College London | FY2025 | £16k | Evaluation of biological mechanisms linking diet, lifestyle and cancer (extension #1) |
| Imperial College London | FY2024 | £1.6m | Global Cancer Update Programme |
| University of Iceland | FY2024 | £340k | Can we prevent multiple myeloma through lifestyle and nutrition? |
| University of Oxford | FY2024 | £318k | ProMAP: Mapping diet to cancer through the proteome |
| University of Bristol | FY2024 | £289k | How does adiposity distribution influence risk of obesity-related caners? - Exploring causality and mechanisms |
| The CANDO Programme Southampton University | FY2024 | £251k | Nutrition, body composition, metabolic health and clinical outcomes in breast cancer |
| IARC | FY2024 | £78k | Collaborative project between IARC and WCRF International: Evaluation of biological mechanisms linking diet, lifestyle and cancer within the new phase of the CUP |
| Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey | FY2024 | £75k | Online mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention for patients with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy |
| University of Hong Kong | FY2024 | £75k | Gut microbiota and cancer risk in East Asians: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study |
| National Institute for Health and Care Research | FY2024 | £68k | NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration |
| Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute | FY2024 | £60k | Weight Management in obese cancer patients during curative active treatment (CANOBESE study) |
| Union for International Cancer Control | FY2024 | £39k | Partnership for Advocacy Support |
| International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) | FY2024 | £4k | International Collaboration on Nutrition in relation to Cancer (ICONIC) |
| Imperial College London | FY2023 | £534k | Global Cancer Update Programme |
| University of Birmingham | FY2023 | £350k | Effect of body composition, metabolic syndrome, physical activity, alcohol and smoking on long-term adverse health outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer |
| University of Surrey | FY2023 | £348k | Optimising prehabilitation exercise to enhance tumour outcomes in advanced oesophageal cancer |
| Edith Cowan University | FY2023 | £300k | Exercise medicine as adjunct therapy during radiation for cancer of the prostate to improve treatment efficacy |
| University of Oxford | FY2023 | £270k | The impact of obesity on survival outcomes following drug treatment for advanced malignancy recorded within the SACT database |
| NIHR | FY2023 | £70k | NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration |
| The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, USA | FY2023 | £70k | Supporting Families of Children with Cancer: DAPHNE, the Conversational Companion for Social Needs and Toxic Stress Reduction |
| University of Ioannina | FY2023 | £70k | Investigating the impact of sleep on the development of reproductive system cancers |
| Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands | FY2023 | £49k | Life S-Can: a novel clinical tool to effectively assess individual needs in cancer survivorship care and improve quality of life in cancer survivors |
| UICC | FY2023 | £42k | Partnership for Advocacy Support |
| University of Southampton | FY2023 | £30k | CANDO-3 - Body composition and chemotherapy toxicity in women with early breast cancer |
| Neuroscience Research Australia | FY2023 | £30k | Integrated balance and cognitive training to improve symptoms, balance and quality of life in cancer survivors with chemotherapyinduced peripheral neuropathy |
| University of Bristol | FY2023 | £19k | How does physical activity lower the risk of cancer? |
| IUNS | FY2023 | £14k | International Collaboration on Nutrition in relation to Cancer (ICONIC) |
| IARC | FY2023 | £13k | Cancer Prevention Europe Project |
| Imperial College | FY2022 | £1.6m | Continuous review |
| Murdoch Childrens Research Institute | FY2022 | £350k | Body mass index in childhood and risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer |
| Northumbria University | FY2022 | £347k | The role of maternal folate in childhood leukemia initiation; understanding the molecular mechanisms |
| Queens University of Belfast | FY2022 | £346k | Periprostatic adipose tissue and advanced prostate cancer risk; a prospective study |
| Italian National Council of Research | FY2022 | £340k | Integrating tissue, based spatial information to elucidate how obesity-induced tumour metabolites drive prostate cancer progression |
| NHS NIHR | FY2022 | £75k | NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration |
| University of Aberdeen | FY2022 | £60k | The feasibility and acceptability of conducting a randomised controller trial to improve body composition of gastrointestinal cancer survivors in India |
| UICC | FY2022 | £37k | Partnership for Advocacy Support |
| IDISBA | FY2022 | £15k | Dietary and lifestyle patterns and the risk of breast cancer |
| IUNS | FY2022 | £14k | IUNS taskforce on nutrition and cancer |
| IARC/WHO | FY2022 | £13k | Consortium Agreement Project |
| IDISBA | FY2022 | £12k | Updating systematic literature review on diet and lifestyle patterns and breast cancer |