The values that guide our new research strategy
Because we must fund the best research that benefits every person with blood cancer.
Discover how our research strategy supports our funding principles and values. You can read more about our funding principles on page 37 of our research strategy.
How we involve people affected by blood cancer
We'll continue to support researchers to meaningfully involve people affected by blood cancer as early as possible in their work, through opportunities such as helping to set research questions or design studies.
We will also expand the number and diversity of people we involve in research, including people from groups who have been underrepresented in the past.
If you are interested in using your lived experience of blood cancer to help us shape our research, join our Patient Voice Grant Advisory Network below.
Join the Patient Voice Grant Advisory Network
Members of the advisory network are people affected by blood cancer that help review our research funding applications. Join the network to use your lived experience to ensure we make the right research decisions.
As someone directly affected by blood cancer, having the opportunity to be involved with Blood Cancer UK and the wider research community really helps make it relevant and useful for patients like me and our loved ones.
- Sunny Kharbanda, Patient Voice Grant Advisory Member
Our other funding principles and values
Our other three funding principles involve funding research across all blood cancers, funding research that benefits everyone, and supporting innovation in research.
Fund research across all blood cancers
We will fund research across all blood cancers including rare diseases, less survivable cancers, and childhood cancers. We will focus on the least survivable blood cancers by investing £24 million into innovative clinical trials to develop new treatments.
Fund research that benefits everyone
Researchers will consider the different groups of people their research will benefit, and how they are addressing equality, diversity, and inclusion in the design and delivery of their work. We will also support researchers from underrepresented backgrounds who may face barriers as they try to develop their careers.
Support innovation in research
We will support scientists to use innovative approaches and technology in their work, to truly accelerate research. This includes gene editing, next-generation cell therapies, AI, and data science.
Join our Involvement Network
When you sign up, we will get in touch with opportunities to share your views and lived experience of blood cancer to help shape our current projects across the organisation. We'll work with you to find the opportunity that best matches you.
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