Fighting brain cancer with CAR-T cells: Targeting zombie cells to improve therapy
Dr Ashley Vardon at the University of Birmingham hopes to find a way to effectively fight diffuse midline glioma with new immunotherapies.
A new approach to deliver chemotherapy directly into brain tumours
Professor Rylie Green at Imperial College London will test a device that can deliver chemotherapy directly to brain tumours, sparing healthy cells.
Investigating a new type of drug that can inhibit the growth and survival of neuroblastoma and other childhood cancers
Professor Karim Malik and Dr Jodie Bojko are testing drugs that can prevent cancer cells from making growth-promoting proteins.
Targeting metabolism in aggressive childhood blood cancers
Prof Jonathan Bond and Dr Marie-Claire Fitzgerald aim to find a treatment that can exploit a key weakness of acute myeloid leukaemia.
Finding the most beneficial dose of fludarabine to optimise CAR-T therapy
Dr Shelby Barnett and Dr Geoff Shenton will monitor crucial drug levels in patients' blood in order to improve CAR T therapy protocols.
Unravelling the behaviour of individual lymphoma cells to find out why the cancer can relapse or resist treatment
Professor Suzanne Turner will investigate the behaviour of individual lymphoma cells in order to find out why treatments fail.
Investigating the role of SET in childhood acute myeloid leukaemia to develop new treatments
Dr Maria Teresa Esposito hopes to learn more about a gene called SET in leukaemia and will test the best medicines to fight it.
Exploring potential indicators of the likely course of disease: analysing blood samples from patients recruited to the rEECur clinical trial
Professor Martin McCabe aims to understand whether blood-based biomarkers could help predict Ewing sarcoma survival.
Evaluating a new antibody-based targeted treatment for medulloblastoma
Dr Laura Donovan is testing a targeted treatment for medulloblastoma in the hopes of giving incurable patients new treatment options.