What are the origins of liver cancer in children and why does treatment sometimes fail?
Understanding how hepatocellular carcinoma develops and what role the immune system plays.
Could ‘prehabilitation’ help prepare children with cancer for a stem cell transplant?
Investigating whether diet or lifestyle changes could help children cope with bone marrow transplants better.
Why does neurodegeneration occur in Langerhans cell histiocytosis?
Discovering what causes nerve cells to stop working and die years after a Langerhans cell histiocytosis diagnosis.
Exploring new targeted therapy options for acute myeloid leukaemia in babies
Looking for repurposed treatments that can fight leukaemia cells in very young children.
What happens in cells to make neuroblastoma develop and how can we stop this?
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.
How does MYCN change the way genetic information is read?
Understanding how the MYCN protein changes the amounts of other proteins in the cell by changing the way DNA is processed and translated.
Understanding how Wilms tumour stem cells escape chemotherapy
Investigating cancer stem cells in Wilms tumour to see whether they are responsible for relapse, and to understand how that happens.
A new immunotherapy treatment for paediatric high-grade glioma
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.
Targeting a relapse causing protein to treat childhood acute myeloid leukaemia
Investigating how a protein that causes relapse in acute myeloid leukaemia interacts with the genetic code, and whether these interactions could be prevented.