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.
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 hepatocellular carcinoma develops and what role the immune system plays.
Assessing the advantages and disadvantages of gastronomies and nasogastric tubes to help children who lose weight on cancer treatment.
Discovering what causes nerve cells to stop working and die years after a Langerhans cell histiocytosis diagnosis.
Looking for repurposed treatments that can fight leukaemia cells in very young children.
Understanding how the MYCN protein changes the amounts of other proteins in the cell by changing the way DNA is processed and translated.
Investigating cancer stem cells in Wilms tumour to see whether they are responsible for relapse, and to understand how that happens.
Creating a new immunotherapy that will attacks collagen in cancer cells, and testing whether it is effective in model systems to make it the best it can be.
Looking at what extra pieces of chromosomes do in neuroblastoma and how these work with the MYCN protein to convert healthy cells into cancer cells.
