Researching Care & Cure

Dimbleby Cancer Care Research Fund

Less than 5% of all cancer research funding is spent on researching the care needs of cancer patients, their carers and families, and how best to deliver them.

With more of us living longer with cancer we believe it is vital that cancer care is improved and made universally available through better research. Dimbleby Cancer Care spends up to £0.5 million per year in this area, making us one of the largest charitable funders in this vital field.

Whether through looking at the problems experienced by older carers, or the challenges of sharing cancer information with children, Dimbleby Cancer Care is actively funding research most others don’t. To hear about one of our projects, click here

Richard Dimbleby Chair of Cancer Research

Through an endowment at King’s College London we support ground breaking research into cancer treatment. Professor Tony Ng is the Dimbleby Cancer Care Chair in Cancer Research and is based at the Dimbleby Laboratories at King’s College London.

Professor Ng and his team are one of only a few in the world working on imaging techniques to identify which are the most fitting treatments for an individual patient’s cancer.  Learn more about his work here.

Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund

Dimbleby Cancer Care and Marie Curie Cancer Care provide a £500,000 research fund which focuses on end-of-life care issues.  The emphasis on improved communications and on more compassionate end-of-life care.  The research outcomes should be applicable to people with cancer and those with other life-limiting illnesses.

There is an annual call for bids in a predetermined research area.  To see the current call, click here.

To learn more about the current recipients of these grants, and what they are doing, click here.