Our One Medicine Discovery Fund supports prestigious research projects, which have the potential to significantly advance science and medicine for humans and animals in a chosen One Medicine area.
Our 2025 One Medicine Cancer Discovery Fund call has now closed.
New project awards will be announced on our Funding Call page and the ONE Medicine Network.
Read more about previous project awards below. Please note, the scope of these awards may change for future calls.
One Medicine Cancer Discovery Fund
The aim of our Cancer Discovery Fund is to create collaborative multi-disciplinary partnerships and projects that can change the landscape of cancer research.
Cancer does not discriminate between species. Approximately 1 in 4 dogs, 1 in 3 cats, and as many as 1 in 2 humans will develop cancer during their lifetime[1].
Tumour biology, development and prognosis can be remarkably similar between humans and animals for some types of cancer. Humans and companion animals also live in the same environments and may share similar lifestyles. These and other factors open up huge opportunities for cross-discipline knowledge sharing and learning between human and veterinary researchers and clinicians in cancer research.
This call has been designed to harness spontaneous disease and encourage collaborative projects that aim to improve cancer diagnosis and understanding of cancer disease biology; develop new cancer treatments or improve existing treatments; and improve quality of life for humans and animals with cancer.
The Fund is up to £250,000 for a single project.
[1] Data from the American Veterinary Association and Cancer Research UK (for UK adults born after 1960), accessed in July 2024.
Previous Awards
Supporting research with the potential to help children and animals
Investigating the feasibility of animal assisted intervention in a children’s clinical setting
Understanding how osteosarcoma spreads
Developing liquid cancer biopsies for canine patients – reciprocity in action