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.
We have been funding expert research since 2016, aiming to ensure that every child and young person has a safe and effective treatment for their cancer, and that they can live long and happy lives post-treatment.
Prof Jonathan Bond and Dr Marie-Claire Fitzgerald aim to find a treatment that can exploit a key weakness of acute myeloid leukaemia.
Dr Maria Teresa Esposito hopes to learn more about a gene called SET in leukaemia and will test the best medicines to fight it.
Professor Martin McCabe aims to understand whether blood-based biomarkers could help predict Ewing sarcoma survival.
Dr Olivier Pardo will investigate how osteosarcoma cells which escape into the bloodstream survive to spread elsewhere in the body.
Dr Sara Sánchez Molina is investigating how a certain gene drives Ewing sarcoma in order to find a better way to treat it.
Dr Jonathan Fisher aims to create an 'off the shelf' version of immunotherapy to for hard-to-treat Ewing sarcoma.
Dr Laura Donovan is testing a targeted treatment for medulloblastoma in the hopes of giving incurable patients new treatment options.
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.