Blocking the activity of an essential protein to treat T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Dr Maarten Hoogenkamp will continue his work into blocking the EAAT1 protein, which is crucial for the growth of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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Dr Maarten Hoogenkamp will continue his work into blocking the EAAT1 protein, which is crucial for the growth of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Professor Martin McCabe aims to understand whether blood-based biomarkers could help predict Ewing sarcoma survival.
Dr Jonathan Fisher aims to create an 'off the shelf' version of immunotherapy to for hard-to-treat Ewing sarcoma.
Dr Olivier Pardo will investigate how osteosarcoma cells which escape into the bloodstream survive to spread elsewhere in the body.
Professor Clare Davies and Dr Susanne Gatz explore whether PRMT5 inhibitors could be an effective and kinder treatment for Ewing sarcoma.
Professor Plevin and Dr Margaret Cunningham will investigate an enzyme that might play a role in osteosarcoma development, and see whether this could form the basis of a new type of treatment.
Dr Sara Sánchez Molina is investigating how a certain gene drives Ewing sarcoma in order to find a better way to treat it.
Developing a test that can measure the amount of chemotherapy-resistant leukaemia cells in patient's blood samples. This would provide the foundations for future research.
Understanding how a protein affects the growth and development of lymphoma cells in order to build the foundations for safer and more effective treatments.