The grants, worth close to a combined figure of $30,000, will go toward studies relating to cancer affecting both the bowels to lungs.

Cancer Council Tasmania chief executive Penny Egan said the annual grant awards were extremely important in the overall fight against all cancers.

"At Cancer Council Tasmania we say we are for all cancers, all ages," Mrs Egan said.

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"The awarding of the Cancer Research Grants are further recognition that the funds raised by Tasmanians stay in Tasmania for the benefit of people living with this insidious disease, now and into the future.

"The three grants being awarded are all going to Northern and early career researchers.

"With more than nine Tasmanians receiving a cancer diagnosis daily, we have much work to do, looking after them and their families and friends."

Mrs Egan added the funding for the grants was donated via bids at the council's 2018 Gala Ball.

Dr Sibella Hardcastle will use the grant to look into how to support people with cholorectal cancer accessing exercise services in their homes, and said it was vital to the work.

"It allows us to implement the program because the costs of running exercise interventions are quite labor intensive," Dr Hardcastle said.

"So with the money I can pay exercise physiologists to undertake the baseline interviews and do the exercise programs while I can run the background administration of the study among my other workloads."

"It allows us to be able to deliver this program and see how it goes. Without it we couldn't do it."

Dr Monica Lu will use the grant money to study the link between Chronic Obsutructive Pulmonary Disease and lung cancer.

"With our research you need to buy a lot of antibodies," Dr Lu said. 

"They are expensive, so the grant will help us set up the experiments."

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