Accelerating progress: research strategy 2025-2030
Because people with blood cancer can't wait.
Why do we need a new research strategy?
We are making good progress on delivering the strategy we published in 2023, including the aim to triple our research funding. We now need a research strategy that outlines what we will fund and how, to keep us on the right path towards ensuring no one dies from blood cancer or its treatments.
Download the full research strategy
As with everything we do, our research strategy was shaped by people affected by blood cancer, as well as blood cancer researchers.
Our research strategy at a glance
Our new research strategy focuses on three main areas: prevention, early detection and predicting outcomes, and treatment. Our ambition is personalised medicine; people at high risk of developing blood cancer have tailored prevention, everyone gets an early diagnosis, and the right treatment tailored for them. Head to page 14 of the full strategy to learn more about our ambition.
Our research strategy: prevention
We aim to identify people at risk of developing blood cancer, target pre-malignant disease, and prevent more aggressive forms.
Our research strategy: early detection and predicting outcomes
We aim to ensure early diagnosis and focus on predicting outcomes and disease progression.
Our research strategy: treatment
We aim to decrease the toxicity and side effects of treatment, develop more effective treatments, and prevent relapse.
Our areas of investment and funding values
Our investment areas outline how we will fund research, and our funding principles help guide and support every piece of research we choose to fund. Head to page 28 in the full research strategy to learn more about our areas of investment, and page 37 to learn more about our funding principles.
The values that guide our new research strategy
Discover how you can stay involved in our research strategy by reading about our funding principles and values.
Research strategy 2025: our areas of investment
Our four areas of investment relate to our four different funding schemes. By investing in the right areas, we will beat blood cancer sooner.
Progress since our last strategy
Head to page 10 in the full strategy to find out what progress we've made since 2021.
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£10 million We've doubled our funding from £5 million in 2021
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£500,000 Across 17 pilot grants through our new scheme
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£26,000,000 Across a total of 89 new grants
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