2027 Funding Round — Advancing Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in Yorkshire and Beyond

Fund interventional applied-health cancer research that tests an adequately developed intervention in people and changes clinical practice during the study. Priorities include prevention, screening/early detection, treatment and health inequalities, with particular interest in multi-cancer detection tests and GLP-1 receptor agonists. Participants must be recruited in Yorkshire. The total round budget is GBP 10 million; no per-award funding or duration ceiling is specified. Preliminary applications are due 3 December 2026 at noon UK time; invited full applications follow in March 2027.

UK-based principal applicants must hold, or secure if awarded, a substantive contract covering the full award and at least 50% of working time with the relevant organisation. Recruitment of research participants must take place in Yorkshire, with inclusive participation and patient/public involvement. Projects must test an intervention in humans with proof-of-concept support; stand-alone knowledge generation, intervention development or diagnostic validation is excluded. Submit the mandatory preliminary application by 3 December 2026, noon UK time; only invited applicants proceed to 25 March 2027.