Find out how grant applications are reviewed and who sits on the panel
We talk to Dr Amanda Cross about how World Cancer Research Fund chooses which projects to fund and why cancer research is so expensive.
All grant applications to World Cancer Research Fund International are reviewed by a panel of experts, comprising established investigators in different disciplines who have expertise in diet, nutrition, body composition, physical activity and cancer. Successful applications at outline stage (pilot and feasibility grants) and at full application stage (investigator initiated grants) are then sent out to external peer reviewers.
Prof Christine WILLIAMS (Chair)
Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Reading, UK
Prof Annie ANDERSON
Professor of Public Health Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, UK
Prof Michael BRETTHAUER
Clinical Effectiveness Research Group, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Prof Karen BROWN
Professor of Translational Cancer Research, University of Leicester, UK
Associate Prof Ellen COPSON
Cancer Research UK Associate Professor in Medical Oncology, Medicine, University of Southampton, UK
Associate Prof Melinda CRAIKE (corresponding panel member)
Associate Professor of Physical Activity and Health, Victoria University, Australia
Dr Amanda CROSS
Reader in Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
Prof Ellen KAMPMAN
Chair Nutrition and Disease, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Tim KERR
Patient Representative
Prof Karen LILLYCROP
Deputy Head of Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Associate Prof Brigid LYNCH (corresponding panel member)
Deputy Head of Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
Prof Richard MARTIN
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Prof John MATHERS
Director, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Cellular Medicine and Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Newcastle University, UK
Prof Anne MAY
Full Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center Research Program Cancer, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dr Ruth TRAVIS
Associate Professor and Senior Molecular Epidemiologist, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford University, UK
Dr Suzanne TURNER
Division of Cellular and Molecular Pathology Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK
Lesley TURNER
Patient Representative
Australian experts on diet, nutrition and physical activity will assist our grants panel as corresponding members, reviewing only applications for research grants from Australia.
