Research
The Alliance’s mission is to end colorectal cancer in our lifetime. By supporting innovative colorectal cancer research by top doctors and scientists, we take important steps toward realizing our vision — a world free of this disease.
The Alliance’s mission is to end colorectal cancer in our lifetime. By supporting innovative colorectal cancer research by top doctors and scientists, we take important steps toward realizing our vision — a world free of this disease.
We've invested 1,000 hours gaining patient insights.
We've invested nearly $5 million in innovative research.
We work with 75 partner physicians and scientists.
Our research program is a critical driving force in our mission to end colorectal cancer in our lifetime. We've invested nearly $5 million in colorectal cancer research, including nearly $3 million as early-stage grants to innovative researchers. Learn more about how our funding mechanisms guide our investments in colorectal cancer research.
By funding the most innovative colorectal cancer research studies, we take important steps toward realizing our vision—a world free of colorectal cancer.
Our research library is your one-stop source to find Alliance-led progress reports, publications, presentations, and more based on our recent work in colorectal cancer research.
By convening scientific community leaders and patients together to advance and build knowledge, we are more efficiently addressing critical issues for patients’ direct benefit.
Thanks to our generous supporters and the work of researchers all over the world, more survivors are beating colorectal cancer than ever before. However, we still have a long way to go. We need:
Let’s work together to ensure that more families beat this cancer.
In an effort to expedite its life-saving work, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance (Alliance) Project Cure CRC initiative is excited to open its Request for Proposals (RFP). Tens of millions of dollars will be available to researchers from around the world whose work aims to expedite colorectal cancer (CRC) research to a curable science.
The Colorectal Cancer Alliance is committed in 2024 to finally getting Congress to include colorectal cancer as a dedicated research program at the CDMRP.
The American Cancer Society has released its latest insights into cancer trends in the publication "Cancer Statistics, 2024."