How to save global cancer research from Trump’s cuts

By Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
Anbang Du, PhD Candidate in Computer Science, University of Southampton
Markus Brede, Associate Professor, Mathematical Modeling, Statistics and Data Science, University of Southampton

Cancer kills one in five people globally. Yet, except for a one-off increase in 2021, the flow of money for cancer research has trended downward every year since 2016.

Our new analysis of more than 100,000 public and philanthropic grants reveals where research funding is being allocated. There are very likely to be reductions…

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