A UNIVERSITY is set to work on a £10m research project exploring new ways to diagnose lung cancer. The Universities of both Southampton and Leeds have come together with healthcare, diagnostics and informatics companies to test the best way of detecting cancers at a stage when they can still be cured, linking to the NHS England Targeted Lung Health Checks programme. The project, called iDx-LUNG, is part of the Government’s Early Diagnosis Mission to diagnose three-quarters of cancers at an early stage by 2028. Work is able to proceed thanks to approximately £3.5m worth of funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), part of a total investment of £10 million in the programme overall.