Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund

Investing in under-funded research areas

The aim of the joint Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund is to invest in research areas that are currently poorly funded nationally.

Both partner charities seek to support research into the supportive and palliative care needs of patients who have cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Find out more about the 2011-12 call for proposals

Research funding criteria

The following criteria should be applied by research funded by the joint fund:

• Research may be quantitative, qualitative or mixed method
• Research outcomes should enhance existing knowledge and practice
• The research outcomes should have a positive impact on patients, families and carers
• The research outcomes must be widely applicable across the UK
• There must be a demonstrable need for research in this area
• The research must not replicate existing or past research within the UK
• The research must represent value for money
• Research projects should run for a maximum of two years unless it can be demonstrated that a longer period is necessary to achieve the optimum outcome(s).

Applications to the Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund are awarded in open competition and are externally peer-reviewed.

For more information, please contact Dr Sabine Best, Research Manager, on 020 7091 4144.

Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Funding Advisory Group

Marie Curie Cancer Care is fortunate to have the support of a number of experts to aid the selection process.

The members of the Funding Advisory Group are:

Dr Bill Noble (Chair), Macmillan Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University of Sheffield

Dr Teresa Tate, Consultant in Palliative Care, Barts and The London NHS Trust Medical Director, Marie Curie Cancer Care

Dr Louise Jones, Head of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit, University College London and Research Advisor, Marie Curie Cancer Care

Dame Barbara Monroe, Chief Executive, St Christopher's Hospice and Honorary Professor, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University

Ruth Sack, Patient Representative, The Alliance

Professor Tim Peters, Head of School and Professor of Primary Care Health Services Research, University of Bristol

Professor Marie Fallon, St Columba’s Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Dr Frances da Cunha, General Practitioner, Somerset

Jonathan Dimbleby, Dimbleby Cancer Care Research Fund