Cancer Grand Challenges
Blake Sanders, Ph.D., currently serves as the Research Portfolio Manager at Cancer Grand Challenges since July 2025, a global funding platform aimed at addressing significant challenges in cancer research. Prior to this role, Blake worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard from June 2020 to July 2025. Blake earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech, where responsibilities included advising undergraduate students and delivering lectures. Blake also held teaching and research positions at Appalachian State University and received a Master of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the same institution, along with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Mars Hill University.
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Cancer Grand Challenges
Cancer Grand Challenges is a global initiative founded in 2020 by the two largest funders of cancer research in the world: Cancer Research UK and the US National Cancer Institute. This partnership builds on the success of Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge, launched in 2015 and supporting 16 multidisciplinary teams across 16 countries. By daring global teams of multidisciplinary researchers to come together and think differently, we can find bold new solutions to challenges which have confounded scientists for many years.