Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK
The fund Dame Deborah James launched in the last weeks of her life; a restricted fund within Cancer Research UK, it has raised £21 million and backed 16 research projects.
Overview
Dame Deborah James, the broadcaster known as Bowelbabe, launched the fund in May 2022 while in hospice care for bowel cancer. It is a restricted fund within Cancer Research UK. Its own site reports £21 million raised so far and 16 projects funded worth over £20.3 million, focused on early detection and personalised medicine, alongside work that continues her campaign to share information about bowel cancer and break down stigma around symptoms. It is one of the clearest recent examples of a single patient's public account becoming a durable research fund.
- Early detection research
- Personalised medicine projects
- Bowel cancer awareness and stigma
Pages like this
not linked directly; found by shared links- PersonBetty Ford
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, The hardest cancers are found late.
- PersonStephen Sutton
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, The hardest cancers are found late, Colorectal cancer.
- PersonSir Chris Hoy
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, The hardest cancers are found late.
- IdeaA swallowable sponge test for reflux patients, offered in pharmacies
Shares Cancer Research UK, The hardest cancers are found late.
- IdeaA public registry of unanswered clinical questions linked to funding calls
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Cancer Research UK.
- PersonKris Hallenga
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, The hardest cancers are found late.
- IdeaA public fund and label pathway to trial generic drugs against cancer
Shares Cancer Research UK, Colorectal cancer.
- IdeaFactorial trials that test several cheap generics at once in the adjuvant setting
Shares Cancer Research UK, Colorectal cancer.