Philip Leverhulme Prizes
The Leverhulme Trust is an independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies scholarship and generate new ideas and research breakthroughs that benefit society. Philip Leverhulme Prizes have been offered since 2001 to most promising researchers.
Leverhulme Trust EXPeditions Journeys
The cancer cell revolution
Gender equality and the history of feminism
DNA and Gene therapies
Raising awareness of autism
About this journey
A disease like cancer for a single individual is no longer a single disease. We thought until very recently of cancer as sort of a monolithic object, where the cells of the cancer cell are all doing the same thing – and all doing the same wrong thing. It turns out that that’s not the case. What happens with cancer is that the code is corrupted in different ways. So, what they do as cancer researchers is try to debug the code.
About the Leverhulme Trust foundation
Since its foundation in 1925, the Trust has provided grants and scholarships for research and education, funding research projects, fellowships, studentships, bursaries and prizes; it operates across all academic disciplines to support talented individuals as they realise their vision in research and professional training. Today, it is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing approximately £120 million a year.
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About EXPeditions
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