Understanding why some childhood blood cancers are incurable
Using models to find out how high risk leukaemia cells grow and become resistant to treatment.
What factors affect the survival of children and young people with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia?
Finding out what makes ALL more high-risk, such as age of diagnosis or type of initial treatment.
How do leukaemia stem cells talk to the immune system in juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia?
Find out how JMML cells are able to switch off the immune system, causing relapse.
Investigating clinical trial samples to predict how atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumours will respond to treatment
Looking at cancer samples to find markers that can predict how a child's cancer will respond to treatment.
Creating a new immunotherapy approach to fight aggressive medulloblastoma
Finding a way to use immunotherapy against a high-risk type of childhood brain tumour.
Confirming bloodstream markers of children’s kidney cancer
Identifying markers that can be used for a non-invasive test to diagnose and monitor Wilms tumour.
How does teenage and young adult cancer treatment affect the risk of kidney disease?
This project aims to find out more about kidney damage in teenagers and young adults who have been treated for cancer. Dr Nicola Hughes wants to know what puts young people with cancer at risk of kidney damage, and to create helpful information for patients and their families.
What are young people and their families’ experiences of melanoma?
This project will investigate how young people and their families experience skin cancer. Dr Wendy McInally hopes to further develop the teenage and young adult cancer service, and create information that will help young people with skin cancer and their families.
Blocking processes which keep leukaemia cells alive
Investigating the possibility of combining a medicine that blocks the process with a medicine that triggers a cell's defensive response to treat ALL.